Advantages And Disadvantages Of Gastric Bypass

The gastric bypass procedure is a procedure called Roux-en-y procedure by creating a smaller pouch using staples and a plastic band to limit the amount of food intake making the pouch a size of a walnut. Because the small pouch that is created is so small it can only contain one ounce of food so therefore a patient can only eat so much and only absorb so many calories and nutrients really needed. One of the advantages of the gastric bypass is it can improve or even be a reversed to patients who are diagnosed with type two diabetes and high blood pressure. One of the disadvantages of gastric bypass is because the stomach is cut and stapled to such a small pouch. Therefore a patient wont be able to get all the nutrients needed from the basic