India offers cutting
edge obesity surgery to excess weight gain. Indian Health care industry is
undergoing phenomenal expansion. The combination of high quality services and
low cost facilities is attracting thousands of international patients every
year. This is hardly surprising considering the cost of obesity surgeries in
India is 10 -15 times lower than anywhere else in the world. When compared to
other popular countries, India has the advantage of hospital facilities,
experienced doctors and cost. Compared to Thailand, India on average is 50%
cheaper.
What is Weight-Loss
Surgery?
Weight-loss surgery
alters the body's digestive process by limiting the amount of food the stomach
can hold and/or by limiting the absorption of nutrients. The most common
procedures are restrictive, malabsorptive or a combination of both procedures.
Restrictive procedures reduce the amount of food the stomach can hold, but
don't interfere with the body's normal digestion of food and nutrients.
Malabsorptive procedures bypass most of the small intestine so that fewer
calories and nutrients are absorbed. Combined procedures restrict food intake
as well as the amount of calories and nutrients the body absorbs.
Who Is a Candidate for
Weight Loss Surgery?
Doctor is patient's
best resource for finding out more about whether weight-loss surgery is right
for patient. Usually, the history of a patient's health and objective measures
of weight are used to determine whether surgery is an option. In general,
candidates for weight-loss surgery meet all of the following criteria:
- A body mass index (BMI) of more than 40, or roughly 100 pounds (lb) or more, is considered seriously overweight for men; a BMI of more than 35, or 80 lb or more is considered seriously overweight for women, plus a history of associated medical disorders, such as diabetes, cardiopulmonary disease and obesity-induced musculoskeletal problems
- Aged at least 18 years, though some younger people may also be candidates
- A history of unsuccessful attempts at no surgical weight-loss treatments
A person who undergoes
weight-loss surgery needs to make a lifelong commitment to a new lifestyle,
including a new nutrition and exercise regimen, otherwise weight-loss surgery
will probably not be effective. What is involved in Preparing for the Weight Loss Surgery?
First, a rigorous
medical and psychological screening process, performed by a team of doctors,
will determine if patient are a candidate. This process helps to identify the
aspects of patient's health that will improve following surgery, as well as the
aspects that may increase the risks associated with surgery. Patient will also
want to come to a complete understanding of the significant, lifelong,
lifestyle changes patient must commit to, including diet, exercise, limiting
alcoholic intake and smoking cessation, if necessary.
The procedures of
Weight Loss Surgery:
There are two main
types of weight loss surgery also known as obesity surgery. These are gastric
banding and gastric bypass.
Gastric Band Surgery:
Gastric banding,
sometimes known as 'lap banding' is a highly effective weight loss surgery
procedure to help overweight people achieve substantial and long-term weight
loss. The operation limits how much food patient can eat. An inflatable band is
placed around the stomach to divide it into two parts. This creates a smaller
pouch at the top, which takes less food to make patient feel full. The food then
passes slowly through the opening left by the band into the lower part of
patients stomach and continues on as normal. The gastric band can be inflated
with saline solution to reduce the size of the opening into the lower part of
the stomach. This will restrict the amount of food patient can eat further, and
make patient feel fuller for longer. The band is inserted laparoscopically,
through four or five small incisions. This is sometimes referred to as keyhole
surgery. Adjustments to the gastric band are made by injecting fluid through a
very small tube, which has a special button-like reservoir just under patients
skin. It can be inflated and deflated in this way, until the right level of
restriction is established. It usually takes two adjustments to find the right
level of restriction, but additional adjustments may be required. These will be
carried out at hospital, and the first one is usually six weeks after surgery.
Gastric Bypass
Surgery:
A gastric bypass is
also a highly effective weight loss surgery procedure. It helps very overweight
patients to achieve substantial and permanent weight loss. It does this by
restricting the amount patient can eat, and by reducing the amount of calories
absorbed from the food that patient do eat. The operation creates a small
stomach pouch in the same way as the gastric band. But instead of the food
passing into the stomach through the band, it bypasses the stomach and much of
the intestine through a small intestine that has been rerouted and grafted onto
the small stomach pouch. The procedure can be carried out laparoscopically, by
keyhole surgery, through five or six small incisions. It can also be carried
out as an open operation with one vertical incision in the abdomen.
Recovery Time after
Weight Loss Surgery:
Recovery time and
surgical complications vary with the type of weight-loss surgery. Adjustable
gastric banding is associated with the shortest recovery time, with
hospitalization after surgery usually lasting less than 24 hours. With the
combination procedures, patient should expect to be in the hospital for three
to five days, or two to three days with the laparoscopic procedure. With all of
these procedures, patient will need a new nutrition plan after surgery. Patient
will not be allowed to eat anything for two to three days following surgery.
Then patient will follow a specific dietary progression for about 12 weeks.
This dietary progression begins with only liquids and ends with regular, solid
food.
Travel to India For
Weight Loss Surgery:
In today's times in
India, medical technology has found answers to almost all physiological and
obesity problems and Weight loss surgery is one of them. The Indian healthcare
sector has been growing at a very fast pace in the past few years. The windfall
began ever since the developed world discovered that it could get quality
service for less than half the price. Price advantage is a major selling point.
The slogan, thus is, "First World treatment' at Third World prices".
The cost differential across the board is huge: only a tenth and sometimes even
a sixteenth of the cost in the West.
Weight loss related
surgeries in western countries cost three to four times as much as in India.
However, it is not only the cost advantage that keeps the sector ticking. It
has a high success rate and a growing credibility. India has a lot of hospitals
offering world-class treatments in nearly every medical sector from cardiology
to cosmetic. In addition to the increasingly top class medical care, a big draw
for foreign patients is also the very minimal or hardly any waitlist as is
common in European or American hospitals.
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