After Bariatric surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced to that of a thumb. The reduction in the size of the stomach drastically reduces the amount of food being digested. After Bariatric surgery, the digestive tract below the stomach is also altered. After leaving the stomach, food is re-routed to bypass major portion of the duodenum and finally directed into jejunum.
Because the food passes along a reduced length of small intestine, and comes into contact with fewer amounts of digestive enzymes & juice thus resulting in absorption of fewer calories and nutrients by the body.
After Bariatric surgery patients are forced to change their eating habits thoroughly, causing illness if they eat more. It includes the following:-
In addition to it, after Bariatric surgery patients remain at a lifelong risk of nutritional deficiencies.
After Bariatric surgery special care has to be taken by women to control pregnancy as it impose extra burden on the food requirements of the women and in the worst case it may even lead to fetal destruction.
Re-joining of the job After Bariatric surgery seems to be cumbersome. However it depends on the type of work & the type of surgery the individual underwent. The patients of bypass surgery require about 2-3 weeks for resuming their work while those patients who had operation through open approaches require almost 6-weeks for restarting their job.
Apart from the above mentioned difficulties, most often patients After Bariatric surgery require emotional support to accept the post operative changes in their body as well as their personal relationship.