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A Bariatric Surgery helpS lifestyle and proper diet
20-year-old
engineering
after the surgery to main-
loSe 130kg in two yearS
student who
tain the weight. “Bariatric
surgery also helps patients
underwent
a weight loss
and fatty liver and many
surgery in May 2017 at the suffering from diabetes
All India Institute of Medical The procedure is as safe as gall bladder operation people are not aware of
Sciences (AIIMS) has lost but requires life-long care, says AIIMS doctor this. This kind of surgery is
over 130 kg over a period of also beneficial in advanced
two years. Ravi Khatri (name liver diseases,” Dr Aggarwal
changed), a resident of Laj- explained.
pat Nagar, had approached More than 70 per cent
doctors when he weighed non-alcoholic obsessed pa-
250 kg, media reports tients are found with fat in
pointed out. their liver. Apparently, doc-
He was highly obese tors are still unaware about
and his movement was the fatty liver issue. A recent
restricted. He also suffered research has proved that
from depression because of
his physique and wanted to
lose weight desperately, a More than 70%
report quoted Dr Sandeep non-alcoholic
Aggarwal, in-charge of
bariatric surgery at AIIMS, as obsessed
saying. “We put him on diet
and asked him to reduce patients are
10 kg so we operate upon found with fat in
him, but he could not make
it. He was then admitted to their liver. But
the hospital for two weeks doctors are still
during which we made him
shed around 10 kg weight.” • Weight please! Obesity is now suffering from a multi fatal unaware about
Doctors performed a major public health problem disorder, with this addition- fatty liver issue
sleeve gastrectomy, a surgi- al fatal disorder makes the
cal weight-loss procedure would come for a follow up simple bariatric surgery into
in which size of his stomach after every three months a complex surgery. bariatric surgery is heal-
was reduced to 100 ml by and lost 130 kg over a period “The patients was suffer- ing these fatty livers faster
stapling out large propor- of two years,” Dr Aggarwal ing from the obesity with and also curing patients
tion of it. It gave the stomach said. multi-disorder, which itself suffering from thyroid and
a sleeve like structure. “Re- Like Khatri, 61-year-old a threat to his life. Mean- diabetic diseases, he said.
ducing the stomach size au- Rajpal Solanki, a Gurgaon while, he was suffering from Obesity is becoming a
tomatically reduces intake resident, lost around 72 kgs the cirrhotic liver, portal major public health prob-
of food. Also the procedure after he underwent a mini- hyperostosis ( dilated), sleep lem across our country.
leads to hormonal changes gastric bypass in August apnea — with complica- Obesity Surgery or Bariatric
because of which absorp- 2016. Solanki weighed 133 kg tions in both lung and heart, Surgery is the only effective
tion of food in the blood also before the procedure. and was also suffering from means of durable weight
gets reduced and that helps Last month, a 40-year- fragile dietary duct, which loss. During the programme,
with weight loss,” he said. old, Jaggu, resident of challenges the the country’s various queries were
He was then in the hospi- Bulandshar got a new lease largest medical institution,” answered regarding obesity
tal for a week or two before of life after getting operated said Dr Agarwal. and sessions. Participants
being discharged. He was at the All India Institute of According to Dr Aggarw- were also educated about
put on a low-calorie and Medical Science (AIIMS), al, bariatric surgery is as safe nutritional value, fitness and
high protein diet and asked who was suffering from as gall bladder operation but healthy lifestyle.
to follow a healthy lifestyle obese disorder and having requires life-long care. One
including some exercise. “He weight around 180 kg, while has to maintain a healthy letters@tehelka.com

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