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April 10, 2024
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Bariatric surgery followed

With the rising wave of obesity worldwide, bariatric surgery has been gaining ground as a treatment option. A large international worldwide study released in February 2011 showed that 10% of adults are obese. There are 500 million people. In 2008: 9.8% of men and 13.8% of women were obese.

THE bariatric surgery is an invasive method that aims to lower stomach, and can be done through several techniques, the most common being the Fobi-Capella method. This technique consists of excluding a part of the stomach, bypassing part of the bowel loop, with or without the placement of a ring at the beginning of the stomach.

However, we observed that a large proportion of patients do not invest in pre and post surgery treatment, which consists of nutritional and psychological monitoring.

Some even seek the professional in order to obtain the report that releases him for the procedure, but do not invest in changing eating and emotional behavior, with time needed to promote effective changes before and after surgery.

It is common to hear reports and receive patients who after the procedure again eat fatty foods, or snacks, chocolates, sodas, causing crises of pain and discomfort, putting their lives at risk.

They go to the operating table without being really involved with the post-surgery, especially unprepared for the changes they will have to make. Even with a variety of media commenting on the subject, I still hear people tell me that surgery "takes the hunger out" solving a lifelong problem of eating.

This is the big mistake of many people who develop the belief that surgery is a miraculous procedure even when warned by the medical staff themselves. They prefer to believe that everything will be resolved, using denial, and putting themselves in the hands of surgery.

It is of utmost importance to be clear that all change depends only on the 'patient', and that surgery is only a mechanical intervention, everything else is the responsibility of the patient. O desire to eat is in the head, which means that you need to learn to eat only as a way of eating, not being able to eat when you are sad, anxious, especially with bouts of binge eating.

With therapy the patient can detect which emotional triggers lead him to overeating, being able to develop instruments to deal with the emotional aspects present in the eating behavior. Thus the help of the professional team is necessary to obtain lasting results, being an important care to maintain the physical and mental health.