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Lap belt surgery-most suitable weight loss surgery

Weight loss surgery nowadays is most preferable one to get rid from overweight. Among all other weight loss surgeries- lap belt surgery is most preferable one. This is also known as lap band surgery. This is minimally invasive weight loss surgery. If your BMI is more than 40 or more than 35 and also you are facing problem of co-morbid and failed to lose weight after trying lost of solution then you are simply eligible for lap band surgery.

In this lap belt surgery, one belt is used to tie around stomach to limit the capacity of stomach. It divides stomach in to two parts. First Upper part is large in size and lower part is small in size. Upper part of stomach hold small amount of food and allow passing food to lower part and to small intestine slowly-slowly. In this way you eat less amount of food but feel full sooner and for long time, thus you prone to lose weight. Surgical procedure is simple and painless. No need to and staple of stomach. Only 5 to 6 small incisions are made to insert lap belt. One tiny camera is used to view the position of belt. After this belt is connect to the port via tubing. Port is situated underneath of stomach and it is stitches to skin. Port is used to fill belt. Lap belt is filled with saline solution to increase the diameter of belt. When diameter increases it restrict food more and help to lose weight more. Port is used to remove saline also whenever you acquire weight loss result according to you.

Patients are kept under general anesthesia. After surgery, they can stay in hospital maximum for 1 days or it may depends on the body condition of patient. After surgery to make lap belt surgery successful, patient need to follow prescribed diet. Diet is prescribed to make recovery process easy, safe and so that you can get your ideal weight. Right after surgery to 1 week you need to be on liquid phase. After 2 week you can switch to soft food and likewise there are list of phases of diet. There are lists of food which is allowed to take and which one is not.

After lap belt surgery, you may experience short term or long term side-effect. Vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, hair loss etc are the short term side effects which generally face by patient just after surgery and with proper care it can be cure. Lap belt slippage, erosion, stoma obstruction etc are long term side-effects which are faced by patients after passing time with lap belt. These side-effects may show the way of hospitalization or re-operation.

To avoid side-effects, you need to know about them and you should choose the best surgeon for lap belt surgery. Gather more and more information about it, follow all things which is required and within 2 years you will get your ideal weight.