As befits a panacea, with obesity gone, other diseases disappear too

New Delhi: Go through bariatric surgery to shed heap of fat weighing morbidly heavy on your frame, to your pleasant surprise; you get freedom from many illnesses in the bargain- diabetes, knee pain, fatty liver, infertility, migraine, heart ailment, to name but a few.

Bariatric surgery is originally an obesity slashing procedure. But just as stockpile of body fat hurtle down, patient are gleefully amazed to find that many of their other disorders are also gone. You can aptly phrase it as ‘collateral cures’ of bariatric surgery.

Examples abound in the large number of Bariatric surgeries done by ace surgeon Dr. Praveen Bhatia, which clearly bear out windfall benefits. In fact, according to him, there is hardly an instance where bariatric surgery did not have multiple positive outcomes.

Talking to Medicare News, Dr. Bhatia, Chairman, Institute of Minimal Access Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Institute of Robotic Surgery (IRS), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, says, ‘It has clearly emerged that obesity in fact is the villain of the piece. As mound of fat disembarks, all disorders induced by obesity also vanish. Bariatric surgery is primarily a weight lose procedure but it’s off label benefits are immense. It has now become almost a first line of treatment for diabetes. In the medicine, this surgery is a singular instance of one size fits all.

Here are some of the instances that give bariatric surgery a place of panacea:

Infertility– Neha, a lady working in IBM, was desperate to get a bundle of joy. But she was left disappointed even after going through IVF (test tube baby technique) thrice. After wasting 7 years of marriage, she came to Sir Ganga Ram and met Dr. Bhatia, also Medical Director of Bhatia Global Hospital. She went through weight loss surgery and, lo and behold, she conceived within 4 months of the bariatric surgery and took home a baby. Now, she is already planning for the next bundle of joy. Dr. Bhatia says, ‘While cause of her infertility was obesity, she was trying out other treatments.’