Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is an effective treatment for morbid obesity, but might aggravate gastrointestinal complaints and food intolerance.
- Patients undergoing Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) for morbid obesity have more gastrointestinal complaints than those who don’t undergo the surgery.
- Food intolerance is a common side-effect of LRYGB //independent of the presence of other abdominal symptoms. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is an effective treatment for weight loss in obese patients, but a new study finds that patients who undergo the surgery often complain of gastrointestinal problems. Surgical patients often experienced indigestion. Also, food intolerance, especially for food with a high fat or sugar content and for red meat, was a common side-effect of the surgery.
- Berlage T.C.C. Et al., Gastrointestinal symptoms and food intolerance 2 years after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity, British Journal of Surgery (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.10419.
- http://bariatric.surgery.ucsf.edu/conditions--procedures/laparoscopic-gastric-bypass.aspx.
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‘Dumping syndrome can occur as the result of rapid emptying of stomach contents into the small intestine. This is sometimes triggered when too much sugar or large amounts of food are consumed.’
The study included 249 obese patients who underwent the surgery and 295 obese controls, all of whom completed a questionnaire. Surgical patients completed the questionnaire two years after surgery. Food intolerance for specific products was reported by 70.7 percent of postoperative patients compared with 16.9 percent of controls.
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass operation, usually performed laparoscopically, involves making five to six small incisions in the abdomen through which a small scope connected to a video camera and surgical tools are inserted.
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"Most studies in weight loss surgery focus on the short-term effects of surgery, and there was limited knowledge about the effect of a gastric bypass on gastrointestinal complaints in the long term," said Dr. Thomas Boerlage, lead author of the British Journal of Surgery study.
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