INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON

* WHAT IS THE INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON?.....................[see more]

* CAN BE APPLIED IN ANY CASE OF OVERWEIGHT?..........[see more]

* WHAT PROBLEMS CAN CAUSE THE INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON?...[see more]

* HOW AID THE INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON TO LOSE WEIGHT?.....[see more]

* THAT STEPS ARE HAD TO GIVE FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND EXTRACTION OF INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON?...................[see more]

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WHAT IS THE INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON?

The BIB (intragastric balloon) is a nonsurgical method and no farmacologico, that produces a lost one of weight of about 15-20 kg. in single 6 months, destined to any type of obesity.

The procedure is very simple and consists of the introduction of empty silicone ball or globe in the stomach that later is filled up with about 500 CC of physiological serum. The intragastric ball or intragastric globe is introduced by the mouth, with endoscopia camera, under sedacion (nonanesthesia) and without pain. The process lasts about 15 minutes, and the patient returns shortly after to his address. The ball intragastric to the silicone being (an inert compound) it does not produce any type of adverse reaction in gastric means.

The BIB is going to be a maximum of 6 months in the stomach and the retirement of same one took place of way similar to the introduction.

After about 2 or 3 days, the stomach adapts to the intragastric balloon. A great advantage of this method is that the disappearance of the hunger takes place by a diminution of the gastric volume and therefore of the amount of ingestion, with which the perdera patient weight without effort. It does not have contraindications you specify of the type of foods that can to interfere.

An equipment constituted by doctors, dietists, psychologists and personal trainers will do an exhaustive control of the patient while he finish his treatment. In addition, the control during the process will be the re-education of the obese patient in his physical and nutritional habits. This learning helps the individual to maintain or, inclusively, to perseverar in the lost one of weight, once retired the intragastric balloon. Finalized the treatment you will have periodical tests.

All the obese people are candidates in general unless they presents psychiatric problems or of gastroduodenal ulcer. It is understood by obese person that whose Index of Corporal Mass is superior to 30. In the section “the obesity” of this Web found formulates it automatic so that you calculate your IMC.

This procedure already this being applied successfully in clinics of treatment of obesity of other countries like England, Belgium and Holland. The result in all the patients is of a lost one considerable of weight. The clinical experience shows that two thirds of the treated individuals they maintain the weight reached during treatment or continues losing weight after the extraction of the ball intragastric. These results are superior to the expectations of any other treatment of the obesity, including the surgical one.

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CAN BE APPLIED IN ANY CASE OF OVERWEIGHT?

The indiscriminate application of the intragastric ball is not recommendable, since it involves certain risks. He is only advisable in case that a repetitive failure with the treatments takes place dietetic, farmacologicos, and of modification of conduct. In this situation, the ball can help to break the colsed behaviour of the person which is created when, incapable to maintain the regime of continued form, the hunger him it impels to eat again in excess, and refalls progressively to one inadequate nutrition.

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WHAT PROBLEMS IT CAN CAUSE THE BIB?

The application of an intragastric balloon is a technique delicate.
It must know the risks and problems well that can entail:

a) Problems in the insertion or retirement, with esofagics injuries or gastric.

b) Unconfort by the presence of the ball, in the first days after his introduction, characterized by stomach ache, you feel nauseous, and often vomits. Therapeutic protocol was applied to him to diminish these annoyances.

c) With time, the intragastrc balloon can be deflated. For this reason is so important that it does not remain but of 6 months (3 months if has previous operations in the abdomen). The symptoms can consist of first place, appearance of tinkles of blue color, and exceptionally pain of belly, you feel nauseous and vomits, if the ball happened to the intestine occluding it. In this case, probably we will be forced to operate to extract the balloon.

d) They can even appear gastritis or ulcer of stomach, reason by that a gastric protector prescribes itself to him systematically.

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HOW AID INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON TO LOSE WEIGHT?

The success of the technique is going to depend, at least in a 50%, of the diet that follows and of its tolerance the procedure, in the months later to its insertion.

The objective number in approximately losing a 10% of its weight in 6 months. Thanks to it, are demonstrated a diminution of the risks global for the health that involves the obesity; specially arterial hypertension, hiperlipemia and diabetes. If it wishes to lose more weight, he will be less hard to him to tolerate one more a more hypocaloric diet. In principle, we recommended 800-1000 calories during the first month, to continue with a 1200 lime in the successive thing.

Thanks to the intragastric ball, are going to feel less appetite, and when it eats, one will feel quickly satiated. It must therefore learn to know when it is on the verge of being satiated, and letting eat. In case opposite, his stomach will undergo a progressive adaptation, with increase of its receiving capacity, that will invalidará the benefit partly of it is present at of the intragastric ball.
Also, the important thing is not only what it eats but AS eats. It must eat perfectly slowly and chewing foods, for which is essential to enjoy a good set of teeth. He will be imperative his revision, once applied the ball, for possible corrections.

The guarantee of good results demands one narrow collaboration between patient and his medical equipment. Due to it, we have designed a rigorous one plan of visits and activities, that we requested to him follows faithfully; it will arrange you on the other hand of a telephone of contact to be able to do to us contributor at any moment of its problems and restlessness.

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WICH STEPS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND EXTRACTION OF THE INTRAGASTRIC BALLOON?

The plan to follow from now on is the following one:

a) In the first place, it must go to our psychologist, who will help a him to decipher its nourishing upheavals, and will support to him in the control of dietetic regime that is to take, until obtaining that once distant intragastric ball, their habits have modified the sufficient thing like not to undergo new increases. He will emit a report.

b) We will ask for a basal analytical study to him - including a balance hormonal if it does not have it already made, as well as a EKG.

c) With these data, you will return to the consultation, and we will fix the day, hour and place of the procedure.

d) Previously the procedure, it will be visited by our anestesist, that one will be in charge of the pertinent study facing the procedure of insertion. It will review the analytical study and the electrocardiogram to him. Him it will explain the habitual procedure.

e) After the introduction of the intragastric ball - in room of endoscopia, and monitorized-, will be left hours in observation, and only exceptionally it will spend the night entered. During days, they will be normal nauseas stomach ache and vomits. This is the natural reaction to the presence of a strange body in the stomach. They are also frequent the constipation and the meteorism, that could be treated. It will have a number of telephone so that, 24 hours to the day, you can call with any doubt.

f) It will be mentioned to him in the consultation for pursuit with a frequency weekly during the first month, and monthly during the 6 months in which it carries the intragastric ball. It must watch the color of tinkles it, contacting with us in case that he appears blue, deflated signal of of the ball intragastric. Also it will have to inform to us into reappearance of pain stomach, specially in uninformed, and the lee emission of black color - always that is not taking treatment with iron.

g) Previously to the retirement of the intragastric ball - never beyond the 6 months, it will be made to him analytical of control, and it will become to him a to mention for the extraction procedure.

h) From then, it will be fundamental that it maintains its good habits in order to stabilize and to possibly improve the ponderal loss.

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