Operations applied to treat Type 2 Diabetes are applied with closed method. This is true for both ileal interposition surgery and transit bipartition surgery. It is known that recovery is more comfortable and takes a short time after operations performed with closed method. This comfortable and short process is also valid in Type 2 Diabetes surgery.
The recovery process after the operation continues until all the weight is lost and diabetes is completely eliminated, but the recovery of the problems related to the surgery will take about three months.
Although the recovery process after Type 2 Diabetes surgery varies from patient to patient, it is generally as follows:
Since the patients who are taken into operation are generally patients with advanced diabetes, there is a risk of complications after the operation. The patient is kept under control in the intensive care unit or private room on the first day in order to intervene in the risks that may arise instantly.
During the intensive care period, blood and blood pressure values are constantly kept under control. While the patient is in the intensive care unit, he / she can move provided that he / she does not leave the bed. He can move his arms and legs, and lie in a comfortable position.
If there is no problem during the intensive care period, the patient is taken to the normal room. Likewise, all values are kept under control in this room. From the second day on, there is no problem for the patient to stand up and take light walks.

After four or five days of hospitalization, the patient is discharged outpatient.
After the patient is discharged, he starts the diet prescribed for him. He also starts using the prescribed medications.
As of the second week, he can return to his desk job.
As of the third month, he can return to physical work that requires effort.
He gives eighty percent of his excess weight by the end of the first year. In addition, diabetes disease is largely eliminated.
Weigh and record weekly until the end of the first year. It also measures and records its blood pressure daily.
After the operation, it may take up to a week or ten days to remove the stitches. Tissue damage begins to regress from the fourth month and heal from the first year. The patient starts to do the physical activities that he could not do before the operation without any problem from the sixth month.
In the most general sense, although the recovery process after type 2 diabetes surgery seems difficult, it is essentially quite comfortable.
As long as attention is paid to what needs attention, there is no risk that could endanger the results of the operation.
Nutrition Process After Type 2 Diabetes Surgery
With Type 2 diabetes surgeries, the person’s feeling of hunger, digestive system and hormone balance are intervened. With all these interventions, nutritional habits reappear in the period after the operation.
Even if the person does not want to, the process of re-formation of eating habits occurs. In order to carry out this process as healthy as possible, it is imperative to see a specialist dietician.
It is possible to divide the process after diabetes surgery into three as near, middle and distant periods. In the near and medium term, a nutritional process that supports the surgery is passed in accordance with the requirements of the surgery.
In the distant period, a light diet, which reduces the possibility of diabetes again, is adopted. Small nuances in the feeding process may vary from patient to patient.
Hormone balance changes after diabetes surgery. At the same time, the stomach volume shrinks and the hormone that causes the feeling of hunger is suppressed. Due to all these effects, much less food is consumed after the operation. The feeling of satiety is more permanent.
The first two weeks after the operation are taken with a nutritional fluid diet. The patient is forbidden to consume mash or solids during this period. With the staples at the connection points providing integrity, the transition to a puree diet is made.
The puree diet is continued for two weeks. Afterwards, the strict nutrition process is entered, where the main diet will be formed.
The first three months of a solid diet are very critical. During this process, habits are reshaped. From the third month of the solid diet, the person is as free as possible in the diet provided that a healthy diet is created.
During the six-month period after the operation, it will be beneficial to continue the nutritional habits in diabetes. Especially refined sugar and carbohydrate consumption should be reduced. Protein consumption should be increased to support the weight loss process.
Some sensitivities may occur, especially in the mash period. This is a problem caused by hormone balance. From the third month of the solid period, all kinds of foods that can be consumed normally but become sensitive during this period can be consumed again. Essentially, it is possible to evaluate the process after diabetes surgery as a new learning process about nutrition. The person reinvents himself and develops a diet suitable for his new features.
The feeding process after Type 2 diabetes surgery is carried out by a specialist dietician who is also involved in the process before the operation.
A nutritional plan is created in accordance with blood values and hormone values, that will support the weight loss process and the process of getting rid of diabetes. The plan is variable, not static. It can be changed according to daily needs.
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