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Lap Band Complication: Lap Band Slippage


How to avoid chances of Lap Band Slippage?


How Lap Band Slippage caused?

What are the symptoms that show the slippage of Band?

How the Band can be fixed?


After Lap Band Surgery one should follow up with all the guidelines which are prescribed by your surgeon. This should be done to simply avoid any type of complication such as slippage of band. But the lap Band Slippage can get caused because of patient’s faults. This can be caused because of pain, discomfort, decreased appetite and inability to eat or drink. Slippage of Band does not happen immediately but this can take several months to develop. In this the food intake is increased by which the stomach begins to stretch and the patient can either increase weight or reduce more weight.

One can feel with this problem by experience of nausea, vomiting, epigastric complaints and heartburn situations which is caused because of amount of stomach being squeezed by the stomach has been increased now. Even constipation, difficulty ingesting problems can also be faced by the patient. On experiencing with any of the problem patients can go for the x-ray test and can get conformed about their Lap Band Slippage problem. This gives conformation about patients slippage related problems.





Band Slippage is of two types, anterior and posterior. This refers the two sides back and front portion of the stomach. Within this your stomach get slide up through the band and than your stomach can get increase in its size. Usually this caused because of tightness of band. In Anterior Slippage the front of the stomach slips up through the band. This can be prevented by suturing the stomach below the band to the stomach above the band. The band is necessary to be placed at the right place. In the situation of Posterior Slippage the back side of the stomach is free to slide up through the Band. Now under the control of best surgeons one can easily prevent this form of slippage and has somehow reduced the incidence of this problem.

Fixing of Lap Band


For fixing the Slipped Band this needs for another operation. The Lap Band Surgery is necessary for all obese people. The Lap Band has to be dissected out with all the sutures removed from it. Now the position of the stomach has to be made right. Few of the Surgeons remove down the old band and place it with a new one. These risk conditions can also be decreased by following the recommended diet chart that is prescribed by the dietician. Solid Foods should be avoided during the early days of surgery.

The fixing of Band can be easily done by surgeons as its just placement needs to be changed during another surgery. One can certainly try to fix the band but if the band is not working for particular that person it’s good to be removed. The Lap Band Slippage is not a rare case but the avoiding of the guidelines of surgeons can make it common within patients.