Friday, April 10, 2009

A Mexico Lap Band Surgery

By John Dunn

For people overweight, a lap band surgical procedure is sometimes recommended. It involves placing a lap band ring around the upper stomach area to create a new stomach. This helps a great deal for people that cannot lose the weight on their own.

Lap band surgery is not covered by healthcare insurance and is very expensive, leading patients to medical tourism sites such as Mexico. Lap Band surgery is inexpensive in Mexico and cost 50-70 percent less than undergoing the same procedure in the US, Canada or the UK. In Mexico, Lap band surgery is cheap but it is also a quality surgery done by a quality surgeon and a quality staff. There are many good things about having your surgery in Mexico.

You can travel as a medical tourist to a destination such as Mexico to receive you lap band surgery. The hotel is usually of top quality and is included in the price of surgery before leaving for your journey. Meeting up with your surgical doctor will be one of your priorities soon after you arrive and settle in your hotel.

As your surgery is scheduled, you await in your hotel room until then. Any risks, benefits involved will be explained as part of the preliminary discussion between you and your doctor. You can feel free to sight-see around the city while you wait.

They are then admitted to one of the most luxurious, bigger, cleaner and most efficient hospital centers in all of Mexico. Lap band patients get admitted to a luxury hotel room and are prepped for surgery by a qualified nursing staff who speak English and who prepare the patients for surgery by cleaning the area to be treated with surgery and start an IV so the patient can receive medications for their anesthesia.

You will meet with the anesthesiologist and the surgeon as a preliminary to discuss your surgery in Mexico. Patients receiving a lap band are usually unaware of the procedure because they are unconscious during the surgery.

To ensure that you are comfortable during your procedure, you will be given anesthesia. During your trip to Mexico for a lap band, you will will recover after your procedure in your hospital room and the transported back to your hotel room. You will often, meet up with a nutritionist to go over your new eating regimen. You will learn what to eat and what not to eat.

Lap band patients will begin to eat and will learn that eating very small amounts is all they can do before feeling completely full. You will recover in the hospital room until you are well enough to return to your hotel room to recover surgery. After your procedure in Mexico, Lap Band surgery patients will often go on to lose up to a hundred pounds or more after their trip to Mexico. Lap band patients may continue to meet up with a nutritionist for ongoing advice as to how best to eat to lose weight.

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