Weight Loss Tracker Template - Low Blood Sugar Linked to Weight Loss Surgery?
In each case, symptoms and low blood sugar problems resolved after surgical removal of the affected part of the pancreas.
Although these tumors are present before weight loss surgery, researchers say it is their belief that tumors have formed after surgery. They speculate gastric bypass surgery can lead to the growth of these tumors by somehow increasing growth factors for insulin producing cells.
They also say that the frequency of these rare tumors in people who have gastric bypass surgery is much higher than the view in the general population.
. The 'dumping syndrome'
. Gastric bypass surgery involves making the stomach smaller and allowing food to circumvent part of the small intestine. Surgery dramatically limits the amount of food a person can eat and the amount of nutrients that are absorbed.
Surgery can also cause what is known as "dumping syndrome" - when the food moves very quickly through the smaller stomach bag and for the intestines. This can cause symptoms such as nausea, weakness, sweating, loose and possibly diarrhea shortly after eating.
More research is required to confirm whether and how gastric bypass surgery can cause non-cancerous growth in pancreas and low blood sugar.
However, researchers say doctors should be aware of this potentially newly discovered complication of weight loss surgery and not necessarily attribute to low blood sugar symptoms to dumping syndrome.
