What about lyposuction for the morbidly obese?

A waste of time and MONEY! If by morbidly obese you mean people who are in the 300-500 lb range it is, not only a waste but a danger. These patients should not go under anesthesia for something as frivolous as liposuction.

The amount lost would be insignificant , the real need for lose is on the inside, in the organs,the heart, vessels. I doubt that the truely morbidly obese would find anyone willing to do the proceedure.

It's not a good answer Liposuction removes surface fat, and can be used safely to make somebody who's pudgy more svelte. But you can't remove more than a few pounds of fat that way. For the morbidly obese, you wouldn't be getting rid of the really dangerous fat around the internal organs, and there is a lot of it.

The whole point of liposuction is to remove the easily-accessible fat with a minimal incision, but for the morbidly obese you'd have to cut them open and remove huge wads of fat. That would be insanely dangerous, since you'd almost certainly end up cutting some important blood vessel in the process. You'd be working right up to the internal organs, too.

Liposuction targets people who just can't lose a little fat in a particular place (it's the only way to target weight loss) or who can't manage to eat less and exercise sufficiently (though it's strongly discouraged as a way to remove general fat from all over the body. ) For the morbidly obese, you need to start with what's causing them to be obese in the first place. That can be a lot of different things: a metabolic or digestive problem, a mental disorder causing excessive eating, a hormonal or other glandular condition, etc.Only once you've treated that can they start to lose weight, which will happen all by itself if you've successfully treated the problem.

You might try liposuction to clean up some areas after they've lost a vast amount of weight, but that's far off.

Liposuction is cosmetic Chances are that if you are morbidly obese, and get liposuction, those eating habits that got you there in the first place will just get you right back. Liposuction is limited, and you might need a tummy tuck instead, but there is no avoiding the old adage - Exercise more and eat less.

It won't work You cant remove large amounts of fat with liposuction, ,it works best for small pockets left over after diet and exercise that just won't go away. Larger amounts lead to high risk for complications and have led to death in some patients.

It's not really a good idea. It seems like it at first, though. Just pull the fat right out.

Here are a few issues: 1) Body fat is very vascular. There's a ton of blood involved in liposuction. Tumescent liposuction (which involves localized injections with lidocaine or another anesthetic to make the fat cells swell up so they are easier to remove) can cut down on the blood loss, but it is still a bloody affair.

If you're going from a body fat percentage of 30% to 15%, you could easily lose 10% of your blood volume. 2) General anesthetic. General anesthetic has been shown to be riskier among obese patients, for a whole host of reasons (available here: uam.es/departamentos/medicina/anesnet/gt...).3) Losing weight too fast, no matter what the method, will leave weird loose skin.So the cosmetic aspects of it aren't that great, unless you do an abdominoplasty as well, which has more risks involved.

4) It hasn't been shown to have health benefits, either: content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/35... New England Journal of Medicine article showed that patients who underwent liposuction didn't get much benefit in terms of insulin sensitivity or factors for coronary heart disease. 5) It doesn't solve any of the problems that made you obese in the first place. If you magically get 10% of your body mass melted away, and still eat like you have been eating before, you will end up at the same place sooner or later.

Fat cells have the capability of splitting, and just zapping away fat doesn't have any of the metabolic changes that make you less likely to store it. So it's a very temporary solution at best. Sources: My opinion, various sources for background research..

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