Causes of stomach dilation after Gastric Sleeve

Causes of stomach dilation after Gastric Sleeve

The wall of the stomach is made up of folded tissues known as the palms that are grasped and simplified as a response to the food and its flow outside the stomach. During eating, the path starts from the mouth and then chewing and swallowing, until the food goes to the esophagus and then the stomach where the process of breaking the food and digesting it by the gastric acids.

While eating, the stomach expands to the maximum, sending a signal to the brain with fullness and satiety. When more food enters the stomach, the stomach becomes unable to digest that amount of food, so the stomach expands, and in the case of excessive eating frequently, there is a malfunction in the signals responsible for feeling hungry and full, so the person has difficulty in losing weight. 

In this case, the person resorts to attempts to adhere to a healthy diet and some exercise, and if he fails, the person resorts to a bariatric doctor and may recommend a Gastric Sleeve. However, some people may have a stomach dilation again shortly after the operation, and in this article we will know more about the Gastric Sleeve, the causes of the stomach dilatation and how it is treated.

Gastric Sleeve Surgery

About 70-80% of the stomach is cut and the stomach turns into a tube shape to lose weight so the person starts to have the feeling of fullness from the least amount of food, because the doctor removes part of the stomach responsible for promoting appetite, thus helping to cause some changes in hormones that help to lose weight.

After the surgery, the person should follow a healthy diet and follow up with the nutrition doctor and know from him all the meals that he or she will adhere to each week. Over time, a person will notice a good weight loss and thus eliminate the complications of obesity such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Causes of stomach dilation after Gastric Sleeve

1- Not complying with the instructions of the bariatric doctor and the nutrition doctor.
2- Dealing with a doctor who does not have good experience in bariatric surgeries may have folded the stomach instead of cutting it.
3- Eating unhealthy fast food that is high in fat.
4- Not exercising daily.
5- Drinking water while eating.
6- Not getting enough sleep.
7- Not drinking water in appropriate quantities (less than one and a half liters per day).
8- Eating eagerly without stopping.
9- Any foods with high calories cause the stomach to expand again after the Gastric Sleeve, so it is preferable to stay away from sweets, soft drinks and chocolate of all its kinds.

The risk is not only of stomach dilation, but the real danger is the dispersal of all the stimuli of feeling full and hungry so this will lead to weight increase again.

How to treat stomach dilation after the Gastric Sleeve?

1- Commit to drinking liquids only for one month.
2- Soft eating in the following month where no more than 3 spoons per meal, it turns out that in this experiment with some people they succeeded in restoring the size of the stomach to the small size obtained after the operation, but there are no studies to confirm this.
3- There is also a solution under the pilot study based on the use of endoscope through the mouth, but the cost is very high.
4- Some may resort to balloon composition after bariatric surgery, but its results are bad, in such case you should resort to a highly experienced bariatric doctor who has many success stories in correcting the bariatric surgeries to find the appropriate solution.