For some people weight loss may seem easy but for others it can be an uphill struggle in gale force winds. There are various conditions which can make managing your weight very difficult and with all the potential dangers which excessive and prolonged weight gain holds it’s not surprising that more radical options have been explored. Most people will be able to manage their body size with diet and exercise at varying levels of strictness. For those that can’t, surgery might be the only option left.
There is a broad range of differing surgical options open to those looking to lose weight this way. Due to the epidemic levels of obesity in the world today, those options are forever expanding. There’s a lot of money to be made in methods of weight loss that actually work and people are willing to pay hugely for that extra bit of help in shedding those extra pounds.
Some of the more popular weight-loss surgeries performed each year are gastric bypasses, gastric bands, gastric sleeves and gastrostomies. These involve lessening the amount of food a person can eat by either restricting the amount their stomachs can expand or by totally removing a section of their stomachs entirely. All of these procedures are serious surgeries and hold the risk associated with this.
A new kind of treatment which is being used in Canada today is much cheaper, less invasive and less dangerous than the traditional procedures and it’s also fully reversible. It’s called the intragastric balloon and it involves the lowering of a deflated balloon into the stomach through the oesophagus. Once there, the balloon is inflated to around the size of an orange using sterile blue water. This creates a feeling of fullness in patients and so far this feeling of fullness has helped a huge amount of people lose weight! The really great thing about this procedure is that once the balloon is removed (generally after 6 months) no lasting damage is done and there is little or no risk to the patient!
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