BARIATRIC SURGERY AND GASTRIC BALOON
Today, our lifestyles, especially the conditions of city life bring along many health problems. Due to the conveniences provided by technology and the increase in the use of private cars, many factors such as moving much less, unhealthy nutrition habits, disruption of sleep patterns, the stress of office life, the stress brought by public life trigger dozens of diseases, and of course, overweight problems come first.
Excess weight is actually the last call our body makes to us. When our weight starts to rise above normal values, it means that the body starts to get fat, that is, the working capacity of our organs weakens and our metabolic balance is disturbed.
As the DSO team, after pre-interviews with our clients, we help them to choose the most appropriate treatment method by arranging an online consultation with our physicians and specialists in the relevant field.
Although we have very successful physicians in the field of bariatric surgery, we find that sometimes our clients can get excellent results with non-surgical procedures such as gastric balloon or a great detox program. We proudly say that; In this way, we helped many of our patients to reach their ideal weight in a healthy way by saving them from the surgical procedure, and more importantly, to regulate their eating habits and unhealthy relationships with food.
Sleeve Gastrectomy
Gastric sleeve surgery is the removal of most of the stomach and leaving the stomach in a narrow long tube. The removed part constitutes approximately 80% of the stomach volume. It is an operation that restricts the amount of food we eat. Since it does not impair absorption, most patients do not have serious and long-lasting vitamin deficiencies.
The most important benefit of sleeve gastrectomy surgery that allows us to make changes in life style more easily is that it reduces appetite. The appetite hormone “ghrelin” is secreted from the removed part of the stomach. Due to the decrease in the amount of this hormone after the operation, the appetite does not appear as before. This makes the lifestyle easier, healthier and more sustainable.
Gastric Balloon
Gastric balloon is a balloon that is placed into the stomach with endoscopic method without surgery and stitches, and it takes up space in the stomach and facilitates early saturation and adherence to diet. Gastric balloon is one of the most widely used weight loss techniques. The aim is that the balloon takes up space in your stomach and contributes to your fullness more quickly. There are two different types of gastric balloons:
- Endoscopic Gastric Balloon
Gastric balloons that can be inserted endoscopically are attached in the endoscopy unit. In the endoscopy unit, the anesthesia team puts you to sleep by administering drugs intravenously. While you sleep, your doctor first evaluates your stomach with an endoscope and, if there is no obstruction, simultaneously places your gastric balloon in your stomach with the help of an endoscope. The procedure takes about 15 minutes and you do not remember or feel the procedure because you are sleeping.
- Swallowable Gastric Balloon
It is swallowed with the help of water. Anesthesia and endoscopy are not required for this procedure. The location of the capsule-shaped balloon in the stomach is determined by x-ray after you swallow it. When it reaches the appropriate place, it is inflated with a special liquid and checked again with x-ray. The inflation thread is then removed. If you have difficulty swallowing this balloon, it can also be inserted endoscopically.
Detox Sessions
After online meeting with our specialist, you can regain your health with our detox programs without the need for gastric sleeve surgery or balloon procedures. This can be determined by online consultation. If, as a result of the consultation, our specialists decide that one of the Gastric Balloon or Gastric Sleeve Surgery is appropriate, you can support them with detox after these procedures. As a matter of fact, the most important factor in reaching the goal of these processes and reaching the targeted weight is to improve the nutrition habits. If you wish, you can add tremendous value to your life by choosing our detox programs along with these treatments.
You can find detailed information about our detox programs from the link below.
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DSO Team
Your body mass index is calculated to determine whether you are suitable for gastric sleeve surgery or not.
To have gastric sleeve surgery:
Your body mass index should be higher than 40 or it should be higher than 35 and it has to have coexisting diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, or sleep apnea due to overweight.
It is necessary to be over the age of 18 to have a gastric sleeve surgery. There is no upper age limit and decision is made considering the chronic diseases and physical performance of the patient.
Abdominal muscles and membranes are not seriously damaged during sleeve gastrectomy surgery. Therefore, there is no serious pain after the operation.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery is an operation that takes about 1 hour and is performed as closed surgery with an average of 5 incisions.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery is generally performed laparoscopically the procedure will leave 4 or 5 scars approximately 1-2 cm in size on your body.
It should be said that the stitches will heal within 10 days after sleeve gastrectomy, which is als.
In sleeve gastrectomy, most of the stomach is removed and the remaining stomach walls are joined together with surgical staples. Leakage of stomach contents into the abdomen from these areas joined together with staples is called leakage. During surgery, the stomach is inflated with a liquid containing methylene blue, and it is checked whether there is a leak or not.
If a leak is not detected in this test, there will still be a risk of leakage in the forthcoming days. For this reason, surgical tubes called drainage tubes are placed in the abdomen for both leak control and bleeding control purposes. These drainage tubes are removed on the 3rd or 4th day if there seems to be no problem.
Signs indicating the presence of leakage are high fever, abdominal pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, and low blood pressure. If you are experiencing these signs and have been discharged from the hospital, you should get in contact with your physician immediately.
If your doctor does not have a different recommendation after sleeve gastrectomy, you can start doing low-impact exercises within 7-10 days. You can start doing all kinds of sports after the first month.
Depending upon the amount of weight you lost, your skin elasticity and your age, sagging may occur after gastric sleeve surgery.
Gastric Sleeve Surgery shrinks the size of your stomach and allows you to get full with smaller portions of food so you can lose weight. If you can maintain a regular and balanced diet and start to be more active, this will not be a problem for you. If you do not change your old habits and put your healthy diet in order, you may start gaining weight again.
One of the biggest fears of people who have had sleeve gastrectomy surgery is the re-expansion of their stomach after surgery. It is observed that the stomach regains its old form. It is a situation that can happen to people who do not abandon their old eating habits despite having an operation. Therefore, it should be fed in accordance with the diet list given by the dietitian after sleeve gastrectomy surgery.
People may suffer from different diseases due to their excess weight. In particular, it can be said that diabetes is closely related to obesity. At this point, people who have undergone sleeve gastrectomy, they can get rid of their excess weight and regain their former health. In particular, Type 2 diabetes patients enter a rapid recovery process with weight control.
All surgical operations have some kind of risk. The most important risk in Gastric Sleeve Surgery is the risk of leakage. The level of this risk is low if the procedure performed by an experienced surgeon and with proper equipment.
In order for you to learn healthy and balanced nutrition after the procedure, it is important for a dietitian to help you learn proper nutrition.
It is sufficient for you to stay at the hospital for an average of 3-4 days after Gastric Sleeve Surgery.
One of the things that are curious about sleeve gastrectomy surgery is nutrition! First of all, a specialist dietitian should be helped. It is essential to prepare a special nutrition list. People; Immediately after the surgery, they first start to be fed with liquid foods. The patient is given vitamins, especially B12, and protein. In addition, liquid foods that are not oily and low in calories should be preferred.
Patient; In the first week after the operation, it should be fed with liquid foods that do not contain grains completely. After the second week, pureed foods can be consumed. The weight of the person who had sleeve gastrectomy surgery and the pre-operative diet should be taken into consideration. Protein supplements may be needed. In the next step, you can gradually switch to solid foods.
This procedure is suitable for patients aged 18-55 with a body mass index above 27 who cannot lose weight despite dieting.
Gastric Balloon Procedure is not suitable for patients who have a severe stomach ulcer, have had part or all their stomach removed, patients with significant gastric hernia.
Gastric balloon can only be placed on people with a body mass index above 27. These checks must be made before the transactions are made.
Until the gastric balloon comes out, people must acquire a correct eating habit and an active life habit. If you are not careful about this, you can gain weight again after all methods including sleeve gastrectomy.
Symptoms of nausea and vomiting may be observed in the first week after gastric balloon procedure. In addition, side effects that will affect your daily life and health adversely are unlikely. If the complaints of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting do not regress within a week, the balloon may rarely need to be removed. This condition is regarded as the stomach refusing the balloon.
The Gastric Balloon procedure is an endoscopically administered procedure and the balloon is inserted through the mouth and placed in the stomach, so stitches, wounds, etc. are not in question.
Gastric balloon application alone does not cause weight loss. The main factors that determine when and how much weight you will lose; how you eat and how much you move.
It is not the gastric balloon that will determine the amount of weight to be lost with the gastric balloon. There are 4 factors that will determine this. How you eat, how much you move, your excess weight and your metabolic rate.
The gastric balloon fills part of the stomach. What kind of food you fill the rest with and how far you stay away from psychogenic nutrition will determine the effect of the bubble.
People; unbalanced and fast food-based diet, sedentary life, genetic factors and many more cause they gain weight. Many people; has trouble losing weight. These days we are in the 2020s
We can say that people who are willing to lose weight have different options in front of them.
The number of people who are trying to lose weight with diet and exercise is quite high. non-surgical
Among the slimming methods, bimodal stomach botox and gastric balloon types, whose patent belongs to us becomes important.
Gastric Balloon is inserted in a 15-minute procedure and you will have left the hospital in 1-2 hours. There is no need for hospital stay and you can get back to your normal routine on the same day.
The gastric balloon is inflated with a special blue-coloured liquid. The purpose of this liquid is to warn you if there is a leak in the balloon by turning your urine into a blue-green colour.
Types of gastric balloons are called with names such as gastric balloon, which is inflated with liquid, adjustable or swallowed. Doctors can decide which varieties to use after the controls. At the same time, gastric balloon prices may vary according to these types.
- Orbera Balloon – up to 6 months
- Spatz 3 Balloons – up to 1 year
- Allurion Elipse Swallow Balloon – up to 6 months
People who want to use a gastric balloon should decide which type of gastric balloon to use for this with the help of doctors. Because not every type of gastric balloon is suitable for everyone.
The patients who have gastric balloon procedures have to follow a special 10-day diet after the procedure and we provide a healthy nutrition programme after that. The gastric balloon is administered to help you comply with this programme more easily.
The gastric balloons we use are balloons made of high-quality and solid materials that have passed the necessary quality tests. These balloons are unlikely to burst. In very rare cases, the balloon may leak. In this case, the leak may be easily detected with your urine turning blue-green colour.
Gastric balloons have many types. These are 3-months, 6-months, and 1-year balloons and swallowable balloons. In this respect, we decide in pre-interview on which type of balloon is suitable for you in terms of patient compliance and to ensure required weight loss. We are able to administer all of these balloon types. Our purpose is to ensure that you have the healthy body you have dreamed of, free from the extra weight.
A Gastric balloon is being placed into your stomach does not mean you will lose weight. The purpose of gastric balloon is to create satiation and help you to comply with the diet more easily. If you keep overeating and force yourself to eat more instead of complying with the diet and the programme given to you, it is not possible for us to help you. For this reason, it is very important for the patients who wish to undergo this procedure to be ready and follow the programme provided to them.
For people who have a gastric balloon, nutrition should be mainly liquid and puree for the first 10 days. Consuming solid food in the early period can make it harder for the stomach to get used to the balloon and increase stomach cramps and nausea. It is very important to proceed by following your doctor’s recommendations in this regard.
gastric balloon; Predictably, it is first placed in the stomach. Next, the special liquid is inflated.
It can be described as a silicone balloon. It is an endoscopic procedure applied to many patients.
Also available in a swallowable balloon.
In the minds of people who research about gastric balloon, how is it after having a gastric balloon inserted? There is also the question of feeding. At this point, the person who has a gastric balloon; for the dietitian himself should be fed in accordance with the list he has prepared. Otherwise, he may not be able to lose weight. Besides that order, fries, snacks, sugary and soda, white bread, processed meats, sweet and sugary foods; Among the foods and drinks that should never be consumed after having a gastric balloon inserted is found.
Those who have a gastric balloon; They have to follow a liquid diet for the first 5 days. any discomfort
those who do not feel; After the fifth day, they can switch to soft foods. small portions
must be consumed. Meat products should be well cooked. In addition, vegetable and fruit purees
can be consumed. Finally, the diets specially prepared by the dietitian should be applied.
After inserting a gastric balloon, at least 10,000 steps should be taken daily and Light activities should be preferred such as cycling, swimming and walking. In the following days, exercises such as treadmills can be considered.
Those who have a gastric balloon they may particularly complain of nausea and cramps. However, these complaints It may not be seen in everyone. Some people have more severe nausea and cramping.
In addition, cramping complaints may also be encountered. The complaints usually go away within a week.
