Many people have seen the weight loss surgery commercials on
TV. All of them show adults explaining how much they love their body after
having a weight loss surgery with a certain doctor, but never in any of those
commercials have they shown a small child saying how happy he or she was in
going through that procedure as well. A morbidly obese two-year-old from Saudi
Arabia is the youngest person EVER to have gastric bypass surgery. In my
opinion, this is wrong; a small child shouldn’t be put through this. They are
small and their bodies are still growing and adapting. To have a child as small
as him to have a surgery as huge as this one, can be very dangerous. There are
many chances of the surgery to not work or even cause death.
According to the Society for
Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) in Gainesville, Florida, their research
shows gastric-bypass surgery’s death rate at between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 200.
Then in an AHRQ study, 4 in
10 patients developed complications within the first six months. Not only have
that, along with the complications being diarrhea, infections, and up to a 40%
chanced of nutrition deficiency and other extreme cases. Kelvin Higa, M.D., immediate
past president of ASMBS says, “This is a serious lifelong commitment.” It’s an
adjustment so profound that patients are screened to make sure they’re
psychologically up to the task — tests that, according to a recent study in the
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, one-fifth of would-be patients fail.(- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26076054/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/miracle-weight-loss-isnt/#.UkDShtKkr6Y -)
Although in this certain situation
the bypass surgery came out to be a success, it still doesn't prove that it is
safe. The doctors had tried to have the child on a diet, but due to the parent’s
lack of control and care for the child, said on Yahoo Health, his situation worsened. I don’t have any proof of the parents of this child not enforcing healthy eating habits, but just having a bypass surgery won’t just end the obesity.
In my opinion, this bypass surgery wasn't necessary. All of these facts about how the bypass surgery could go wrong is towards adults. There has only been one child other than this 2-year-old that has gone through this procedure, except he was 7 years-old. Even then 7 year-old and 2 year-old children shouldn't go through this surgery. These two children are the only ones that have gone through this so how can people derive that nothing will go wrong. If so many adults have these side effects, imagine what little children would go through.
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