Weight loss plateaus may occur in certain patients who have undergone a sleeve gastrectomy as a primary bariatric procedure. What are the causes? What is the next step? What is the prognosis for these patients? This article discusses these issues. Please buckle your seat belts! First things first, who doesn’t know what a sleeve (as [...]
Hair loss is one of the commonest laments in female patients after gastric bypass surgery (whether for weight loss or surgical cure of Type II Diabetes Mellitus), and is at once one of the least heralded topics in the subject. This is but natural: after all, surgeons are more bothered by complications that are life-threatening [...]
“When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail!” We have all heard of this saying, and all of us agree. A skilled laparoscopic surgeon plots to take out huge tumors and cysts through the keyhole method, while the dinosaur surgeon tends to think of employing his hands to remove organs (like the appendix) [...]
Some of the commonest things I get asked by patients after bariatric surgery is, “So what can I eat now? When can I eat sweets? When can I drink Coke?” Or words to that effect. Each time, I sigh. It means another ten minute lecture is due on my part. I have to teach an [...]
All surgeons know that, thanks to popular media and the hospitals that push the concept, the lay public think that lasers are exciting miracle gadgets for any surgery. People forget the fact that lasers are only applicable in a handful of situations across specialities, with the most use being in retinal surgery and dermatology. Now, [...]
This morning, I was supposed to train with Ranadeep Moitra (the fitness coach of BMI) and a group of youths at his bootcamp (usually sprint intervals and stuff) at a local cricket ground. I was late, and reached the camp when it was on its way. I had brought my kettlebells anticipating this, and started [...]
From General Surgery News (free registration required for login): Babies born to mothers who have had bariatric surgery are strikingly healthier at birth and throughout childhood than siblings who were born before their mother’s surgery, according to results from a large new study from Quebec. Even as they grow, children mirror their mother’s metabolic health [...]
(pic credit goes to this site) If you have decided to go for a bariatric operation, you need to do some preliminary preparation for it. 1. We tell our patients to go on a liquid diet for 15 days before the day of surgery. This does not mean you can drink ghee, condensed milk, juices and [...]
This is one of the commonest questions we face as providers of obesity care. The question may be posed by a matronly lady in her fifties, an out-of-shape PYT, or by a morbidly obese patient looking at bariatric surgery. (pic source: here.) The answer to that question, therefore, has to be contextual. In the more [...]
According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (September 1 edition), a Mediterranean diet low in carbs scored far better in diabetics than a low fat diet as recommended by the American Heart Association. Article source here. A summary in Medpage Today says that “Among diabetics who followed a Mediterranean-style diet, only [...]