What is obesity and its types?
There are two types of obesity (severe obesity - local obesityObesity can be treated through one of the obesity surgeries such as (laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy - laparoscopic mini gastric bypass), while local obesity is treated in simple ways and sometimes without embarrassment
What is obesity ?
Obesity is the abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat in the body that leads to many health problems. A person is considered obese if his or her weight is 20% more than normal weight or has a BMI of more than 40
What are the causes of obesity and its treatment?
Either genetic factors, imbalance, hormonal disorder, eating habits, wrong lifestyle, or organic disease, and they are treated through various obesity surgeries, such as:
- Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
- sleeve gastrectomy bilateral division
- Banded Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic bypass for obesity treatment
- SASI surgery
What is local obesity?
Local obesity is the excessive accumulation of fat in a certain area of the body (the breast in men) (and the waist and buttocks in women), which constitutes a frustration for the appearance of the inconsistent discount and prevents the wearing of appropriate clothes
Causes of local obesity
Genetics, which is one of the factors of local obesity. Many girls and women have a body shape similar to a pear (it has an increase in fat in the waist and buttocks area) due to genetic genetics
* Local obesity may occur after a diet, because the body has lost a lot of weight, except in certain places
Pregnancy and repeated childbirth, because it leads to weakness of the abdominal muscle and sagging skin.
* After surgeries, excessive characteristic, if the person does not exercise, may lead to sagging skin.
Methods of treating local obesity
1- Liposuction.
2- Tighten the sagging skin.
3- Laser liposuction.
4- Removing fats using chemicals.
- Liposuction
If the patient suffers from a large accumulation of fat in a specific area of the body, then the liposuction process is suitable for him, where this fat can be suctioned easily, in a safe and effective manner, but if the patient suffers from weak abdominal muscle with the presence of fat here, liposuction must be performed and then tighten the muscles Abdomen with sagging skin removed. - Laser liposuction
Through a small opening about 3 mm in the area where the fat is to be removed. The laser is used to burn fat and it is suctioned through this opening, the patient can lose about 7 liters of fat per session. - Removing fats using chemicals
The places with local obesity are identified and then they are injected with chemicals that have an effective ability to dissolve the fat. The wait is 15 minutes until an interaction occurs between these materials and the fat, and these fats are suctioned through a very small opening.
