• Permanent food intake restriction
• Lactose intolerance
• Dumping syndrome
• Psychological adjustments
• Need for plastic surgery
• Temporary hair thinning (Partial loss)
• Lifelong medical follow-up
Gastric Bypass Dumping Syndrome
• follows many types of stomach Surgeries
◦ When sugars rapidly hit small bowel
• variable incidence, intensity
• Sweating, weakness, rapid heart rate, nausea, hot flash, diarrhea
• Lasts 10-45 minutes
• Rx: time, diet, medication
• Good news: Helps you Avoid sugars!
Gastric Bypass Lactose Intolerance
• difficult digestion of milk products
• Indigestion, gas, diarrhea
• Hereditary
• Gastric bypass can "unmask", but not cause it
• Rx: diet, enzyme replacement