What is Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery has been around for about 60 years. This procedure is the most recommended to help people with a certain degree of obesity lose weight. The Federal Council of Medicine itself recommends this surgery. The procedure has been updated over the decades and currently has a set of safe and effective techniques in order to reduce the stomach to inhibit hunger and reduce the amount of food ingested by the patient throughout the day.
Obesity is a pathology that seriously affects many people around the world. This disease, most of the time, is caused by bad eating habits, lack of exercise, and an irregular sleep routine, and these are the main factors that limit people from losing weight in a natural way.
In view of this, bariatric surgery, in turn, ends up being recommended specialists in the area after the patient has undergone monitoring by various professionals, such as a psychologist, nutritionist, physical education professionals, and in more specific cases, doctors from other specialties.

Normally, the bariatric procedure is recommended for people with grade 2 to 3 obesity and who have already tried other methods but were not successful, including physical exercises and diets.

What are the types of bariatric surgery?

The two most used techniques of bariatric surgery are Sleeve and Bypass, both of which result in the reduction of the patient’s desire for food, so that he or she cannot eat the same amount of food. In addition, in the first month, the patient’s diet is practically made up of liquid foods.

Sleeve Bariatric Surgery

The Slevee technique is one of the most widely used weight loss procedures in the United States, Brazil, and other parts of the world. The procedure focuses on removing 70% to 80% of the stomach, which is equivalent to about 100 ml of the organ’s volume. Categorized as a restrictive surgery, the laparoscopic Sleeve technique uses a device called a stapler to remove part of the gastric fundus and part of the stomach. Thus, the Sleeve technique is performed in such a way that small incisions are made in the patient’s abdomen, and then surgical tubes are introduced to begin the operation. With this, the weight loss resulting from this surgical method has been increasingly recurrent. As for the operation itself, the surgery is performed under general anesthesia and usually lasts about two hours. However, admission of patients at the hospital is usually around three days. Advantages of bariatric surgery with the Sleeve technique: Because it is less invasive, the recovery time for the bariatric surgery with the bariatric technique tends to be shorter, and because it does not cause changes in the path made by the food in the course of the digestive tract, the procedure has less chance of causing a possible intestinal obstruction or internal hernias.

Bypass Bariatric Surgery

The term Bypass means “deviation” and this is exactly what this technique proposes. Surgery using the Bypass technique reduces the size of the patient’s stomach and then connects it to the intestine, which reduces the space for food and makes the patient feel satisfied quickly. In this method, unlike the Sleeve technique, the capacity of the stomach is reduced to only 10% of the patient’s total volume, restricting the amount of food that can be eaten and diverting this food into the first portion of the intestine, called the duodenum, to the intermediate portion of the organ, called the jejunum. With this, the procedure with the Bypass technique begins with a Y-shaped deviation in the small intestine, which is then connected to a gastric reservoir created by partially stapling the patient’s stomach, which becomes a food loop through which the food will pass, thus reducing the absorption of the food inside the stomach. Advantages of bariatric surgery with the Bypass technique: This procedure aids in increasing the production of GLP1, a hormone that causes satiety, has a great weight loss index, and provides the other hormonal changes that assist in living a healthier life. However, it is worth pointing out that both procedures, the Sleeve and the Bypass, are very effective for weight loss, which provides the patient with the elimination of about 70% of body fat.

The advantages of Bariatric Surgery in general

Obesity is a disease that brings with it other serious types of ailments. This is because excess weight overloads the entire human organism, bringing consequences such as increased blood pressure, sleep apnea, heart problems, several types of diabetes, and other pathologies. After bariatric surgery the patient starts to lose a lot of weight, and the excessive load caused by being overweight is no longer a problem for the patient’s body. Thus, mobility gives room for physical activities, the reduction of the stomach improves the diet, and the weight loss boosts self-esteem. Brazil is the country where Bariatric surgery is most performed in the whole world., in 2019 alone, more than 68,500 procedures were performed, a 7% increase against the previous year, according to the Brazilian Society of Bariatric Surgery, known for the quality of doctors specializing in bariatric surgery, high level of equipment and Hospitals with Accreditations recognized worldwide, Brazil is one of the safest places to perform the bariatric procedure. Medical Travel Brazil, a company specialized in medical tourism, aims to take care of all the processes in a simple and professional manner, so that the patient can safely leave their country and have the procedure done with the best doctors and hospitals with International Accreditations. So, what are you waiting for? Chat with our team today, because our mission is to welcome and guide each step towards your new life.

What are the types of bariatric surgery?

Sleeve Bariatric Surgery

Bypass Bariatric Surgery

The advantages of Bariatric Surgery in general

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