Hy: weight loss after surgery, eating 13kg/day to survive

Ms. Julie Dunbar had surgery to lose weight. And in December, her sudden weight reduced from 130kg to 39kg. Dunbar had a rare complication of Bariatricsurgery, gastric activity weakened, causing dangerous malnutrition status, causing her to eat the food mountains every day to survive.

According to the advice of the doctor , she must eat 5000 calories a day, equivalent to 13kg food – many times compared to the diet of ordinary women's daily, to survive. By her stomach cannot be tolerated more nutrients. Though the amount of food taken into the body a lot but only a very small part of nutrients are stomach absorption.

Every day, she must eat these foods include cheese, smoked salmon, biscuits, cereals, fruit, pastries, curry or cake for dinner and a bag of candy sweet.

Mrs. Dunbar said: "The Fed takes up most of my time. In addition, food bills up to 4100 USD per week is also a very difficult economic problems to me. At first I felt this very interesting, but increasingly I felt it was horrible, I had to eat even when feeling not really necessary ".

The total amount that Mrs. Dunbar had to pay for my weight loss to do narrow the stomach contraction ceases to 10000 pounds. She was hoping this weight loss surgery is to reduce calories and fat mass to absorb into the body. However, she encountered a rare complication of gastric activity, less effective than normal and tolerated only a very small portion of nutrients in food.

After one year, Dunbar quick weight loss down to only 39 kg.  She said: "look in the mirror I feel like the image of a child in Africa dies of hunger so, only the dry bones". Indeed, her face is identical to a skeleton, the body suffers severe malnutrition.

In 2012, she underwent two more surgeries to restore the activity of the stomach but also not effective. If a normal person just 30-40 g of protein per day, she needs to take to the new 125 g enough nutrients. Her condition continued to deteriorate.=

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