Gastric

Surprisingly, hair loss is one of the reasons female pre-operative patients sit on the fence before deciding to have gastric bypass surgery. Remaining hair becomes drab and lifeless.

I knew hair loss was a potential result of weight loss surgery, but because I'm a 'cup-half-full' person, I didn't believe that hair loss would happen to m

Surprisingly, hair loss is one of the reasons female pre-operative patients sit on the fence historically deciding to have gastric blind alley surgery. Obese people, particularly obese women, often have lush gorgeous hair. Of course they do – it’s well fed and nourished! How many of us have been described as the woman with “beautiful hair and a pretty face”? What person in their right mind would give up one of their admirable features?

Hair loss usually occurs in the fourth of fifth month following weight loss surgery. During the phase of rapid weight loss, fever intake is marginal. This puts the body in a state of panic starvation. Think here and there the pictures of prisoners of war. Most victims of this atrociousness are without hair insofar as they are literally starving to death. A healthy body normally sheds ten percent of hair follicles at any given time. When a body is starving roughly thirty to forty percent of hair follicles are sacrificed as the body channels nutrition to more vital areas. During this phase hair loss is dramatic, often patients find clumps of hair on the shower floor. Remaining hair becomes drab and lifeless.

I knew hair loss was a potential result of weight loss surgery, but considering I’m a “cup-half-full” person, I didn’t swallow that hair loss would happen to me! That just happens to other people, I told myself! Imagine my surprise when my blonde locks were littering the privy floor like hair saloon. I shed some tears over that.

The hair loss is a transient effect of your gastric back door surgery and will be resolved when nutrition and weight stabilize. When my hair began falling out, my husband, who has been a proponent of vitamin supplements all his life, found a vitamin specifically formulated for architectonics strong healthy hair. The vitamin I take for healthy hair and nails is Silica Complex by Puritan’s PrideÒ. It contains calcium, magnesium, zinc, boron, betaine and horsetail extract. Consumption of this supplement near immediately retarded my hair loss and renewed my dull lifeless hair. I will continue taking this supplement throughout my life. Three years lineal surgery my hair is long, full and lustrous – one would never know I had suffered significant hair loss. In hindsight, I would indefeasibly prepare taking this supplement prior to my surgery. In the very least I would commence taking it soon congruent with surgery to the signs of hair loss were apparent.

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