Gastric banding surgery or lap banding surgery is a popular weight loss surgery; however, people who opt for it are rarely aware of the various gastric banding complications involved. Though, this is basically performed to avoid medical conditions like heart disease and diabetes, it is fast getting popular as a weight loss surgery for people who have failed to respond to all other forms of weight loss treatments.

In gastric banding surgery an adjustable band is placed around the stomach to make the space smaller to digest food. It delivers amazing results and people reduce weight considerably after the surgery. To help you make informed decisions, I will be discussing some of the risks involved in such surgeries.

Malfunction of band: The band should be well positioned to function properly. If the band is not placed properly in the stomach; it will lead to band slippage or leakage. The band may also go out of position which usually happens to 2 percent of the patients. This needs replacement of the Band.

Nausea and Vomiting: Post gastric banding surgery, many experience constant nausea and vomiting. The stomach will take time to adapt itself to the new band and also the amount of foods taken may cause this condition. Usually most of the people suffer from this condition in the initially post Gastric banding surgery.

Band Erosion: At times the band erodes into the stomach. Erosion is usually caused due usage of older design of bands and is a rare gastric banding complication. In case of erosion, you should require further gastric banding surgery or should remove the band from the stomach. In rare cases erosion may turn fatal.

Stretched Pouch: This condition is caused due to overeating. Once you feel satisfied; you should stop eating, non stop eating will cause the food to move towards esophagus creating problems and discomfort.

Though this gastric banding surgery does not involve any cutting, it has lot of risks associated with it. Before going for this surgery, one should know the gastric banding complications. This will help them to choose any alternative method to reduce weigh in order to avoid fatal complications.

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