Who benefits from bariatric surgery?
Bariatric surgery helps people with obesity lose weight and keep it off. Typically, patients who have bariatric surgery have tried to lose weight with diet and exercise. Often, they have been successful in losing weight but then have gained most or all of it back. Patients who have bariatric surgery are often motivated by a desire to improve their overall health.
How do I know what my Body Mass Index (BMI) is?
All you need to calculate your BMI is your height and weight. Calculate your BMI.
Can I lose weight with diet and exercise?
Many people are successful at losing weight with diet and exercise. Unfortunately, most people are not able to keep that weight off. Fewer than 5% of individuals who lose a significant amount of weight with diet and exercise are able to keep that weight off.
What are the benefits of weight loss surgeries?
- Increases self-confidence
- Removes around 50% of a person’s excess body weight
- Conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis are often reduced after the surgery.
What are the complications of bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery?
- The patient, who has undergone weight loss surgery, stays in the hospital for a recovery period of 2-3 days. During this time the chances of a complication are very rare.
- However, the complications may occur in the form of infected wounds, ulcers, bleeding, and digestive problems. Only 10% of the people have this issue.
- 2-3% of the people undergoing the surgery may suffer from very serious issues like heart attack, clotting of blood, serious, life-threatening infections, etc.
Who is a good candidate for bariatric surgery?
Not everyone is qualified or deemed fit to have weight loss surgery. Usually recommended for:
- Those who have a body mass index over 40, i.e those overweight by about 100 pounds (for men) and 80 pounds (for women).
- Obese people with a lower body mass index, but have problems related to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, severe sleep apnea, or high cholesterol.
Those who have exhausted other options. - Weight loss surgery is usually done after a complete evaluation
How much weight is lost after bariatric surgery?
- The patient undergoing gastric bypass surgery for weight loss loses around 5 to 15 pounds per week. This rate of weight loss continues till 2 or 3 months after which it lessens to 1 to 2 pounds per week for the next 6 months.
- The rate at which one loses weight depends much on the individual. Thus its better not to compare the weight loss rate of one person with another.
Which doctors perform weight loss surgery?
A weight loss surgery in delhi is performed by a specialist in bariatric known as a bariatric surgeon. Dr. Sukhvinder Singh Saggu is the best bariatric surgeon in Delhi with more than 21 years of post-graduate experience. He is also