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I am outraged that they would do surgery for this on kids instead of putting them on a lower carb diet and supplements.
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I am outraged that they would do surgery for this on kids instead of putting them on a lower carb diet and supplements.310/252/220 -- 100% Male -- 2 years low carb!
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Wow! This kinda' pissed me off to read it! My baby was born with terrible reflux disease. She was miserable (and so were we!), even though we did all kinds of tests, and tried all kinds of medicines. Finally, at 7 weeks, she had this surgery and it worked very well, thank you! If she hadn't had the surgery, I'm convinced she would've failed to thrive and eventually would've been in serious trouble. Today she's a healthy 16 year old who never suffers from heartburn. Incidentally, she rarely vomits, either - a side-effect of the surgery.
So I guess I'm just saying, you don't need to be outraged that this surgery is used for serious GERD in babies. A diet of mother's milk only didn't help my child. -
I am not outraged at all for the 20 to 50% of cases that actually need it.Originally posted by theredhead
The problem is -- it sounds like they are trying to go mainstream with this as a first choice.
My impression of the story was like -- 30% of all kids are now overweight -- this surgery solves that problem -- let's start operating on all the overweight kids now.310/252/220 -- 100% Male -- 2 years low carb!
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Sorry! Following your link led me to the article that stated:
"A surgical procedure called fundoplication is not an effective treatment for children with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)."
I didn't see anything about its relationship to obesity or it's use as a treatment for obesity in children. Was there more to the article that I couldn't access?Comment
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