LAP-BAND and Gastric Bypass - What Is the Difference?
LAP-BAND surgery and gastric bypass surgery are two types of surgery that are meant to help the patient lose a significant amount of weight, but besides their goal, they are very different.
First of all the gastric bypass is redirecting food so that you do not ingest the same quantity and you absorb less nutrients.
On the other hand, gastric band surgery is a procedure that allows food to go through the normal digestive way, but it allows less food to be ingested, as a gastric band is placed around the top part of the stomach and a small pouch is created.
LAP-BAND versus gastric bypass - the day of surgery Gastric bypass surgery can be only performed on an in-patient basis, as it is an invasive procedure in which during three hours, the bariatric surgeon connects a newly-created pouch to the small intestine's middle portion.
This procedure needs a three-day hospital stay per person.
On the other hand, the gastric band surgery can be performed on an out-patient basis, as it is not an invasive procedure.
It takes about an hour for the weight loss surgery doctor to insert the band around the upper side of the stomach and patients can leave the hospital the same day.
Patients' Recovery after These Weight Loss Surgery Procedures Given the nature of these procedures, the time necessary for the stomach to heal is different.
If after LAP-BAND surgery you can go back to your daily activities after three weeks to one months, it takes six to eight weeks to recover after a gastric bypass surgery.
This difference is due to the fact that in the first case healing happens at the port site, while after a gastric bypass surgery, in Chicago or anywhere else, the whole digestive system has to get used to the new re-routing.
After having a LAP-BAND inserted, there is only one discomfort that you can feel, and that is the soreness of the port.
In what food is concerned, there is post bariatric surgery diet that patients need to stay on.
The nutritionist I work with recommends my patients to hold a diet three to four weeks approximately, so that the stomach heals and they slowly progress to solid foods.
However, there is a difference regarding these two procedures, as gastric bypass patients need to stay on a pureed diet for more weeks than LAP-BAND patients, before starting with solid foods.
First of all the gastric bypass is redirecting food so that you do not ingest the same quantity and you absorb less nutrients.
On the other hand, gastric band surgery is a procedure that allows food to go through the normal digestive way, but it allows less food to be ingested, as a gastric band is placed around the top part of the stomach and a small pouch is created.
LAP-BAND versus gastric bypass - the day of surgery Gastric bypass surgery can be only performed on an in-patient basis, as it is an invasive procedure in which during three hours, the bariatric surgeon connects a newly-created pouch to the small intestine's middle portion.
This procedure needs a three-day hospital stay per person.
On the other hand, the gastric band surgery can be performed on an out-patient basis, as it is not an invasive procedure.
It takes about an hour for the weight loss surgery doctor to insert the band around the upper side of the stomach and patients can leave the hospital the same day.
Patients' Recovery after These Weight Loss Surgery Procedures Given the nature of these procedures, the time necessary for the stomach to heal is different.
If after LAP-BAND surgery you can go back to your daily activities after three weeks to one months, it takes six to eight weeks to recover after a gastric bypass surgery.
This difference is due to the fact that in the first case healing happens at the port site, while after a gastric bypass surgery, in Chicago or anywhere else, the whole digestive system has to get used to the new re-routing.
After having a LAP-BAND inserted, there is only one discomfort that you can feel, and that is the soreness of the port.
In what food is concerned, there is post bariatric surgery diet that patients need to stay on.
The nutritionist I work with recommends my patients to hold a diet three to four weeks approximately, so that the stomach heals and they slowly progress to solid foods.
However, there is a difference regarding these two procedures, as gastric bypass patients need to stay on a pureed diet for more weeks than LAP-BAND patients, before starting with solid foods.
