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Gastric ByPass Pill?

enterdanger

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/allurion-offers-gastric-bypass-surgery-in-a-pill/?ncid=rss

Has anyone seen this? I just read it. Personally, I'd be worried about side effects, but I can see a lot of uses for this. Especially in patients that are too obese for surgery or anesthesia. Science is cool.

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100df

Interesting! Thank you for sharing. While it's all about CICO, there's nothing wrong with using tools to help you keep your calories to a deficit.

queenliz99

Wow, cool!!

MelaniaTrump

So stomach acid can dissolve steel but not plastic?

queenliz99

JanetYellen wrote: »

So stomach acid can dissolve steel but not plastic?

Isn't hydrochloric acid for pools sold in plastic bottles?

gracew00d

"13. Your stomach’s primary digestive juice, hydrochloric acid, can dissolve metal, but plastic toys that go down the hatch will come out the other end as good as new. (A choking hazard is still a choking hazard, though.)"
discovermagazine.com

MelaniaTrump

A plastic toy maybe solid. This looks like a thinner skinned balloon.
Small enough to fit in a pill. Should be very thin.

GaleHawkins

I would want to read a lot of research on a device like that before considering it as an option.

Amazon_Who

If it is like the other gastric balloons, it is only left in for 6 months.

Purplebunnysarah

I don't think plastic vs acid is a huge concern at the acid concentration stomach acid is usually found at. At work we cook samples in concentrated nitric/hydrochloric acid, and we do it in disposable plastic tubes at 95C...

enterdanger

dixie_amazon wrote: »

If it is like the other gastric balloons, it is only left in for 6 months.

so...since this is non invasive, do you just pass it after 6 months?

The article said that it's already approved in the UK. Do we have any brits here that can weigh-in? (yes bad pun intended)

Need2Exerc1se

dixie_amazon wrote: »

If it is like the other gastric balloons, it is only left in for 6 months.

The article says it lasts 4 months.

It seems like a pretty good alternative to surgery to me. It says you excrete the balloon. I wonder what the risk of it become stuck and causing impaction is.

enterdanger

@need2exerc1se that's not a pretty mental picture. AT my age having a normal BM daily is of the utmost importance.

cw106

Available privately in uk apparently.
Not heard of it at all prior to this thread.
Free,non-invasive surgery available on NHS for those with a 40+ bmi.

Amazon_Who

Maybe I should say less invasive. No surgery involved.

shinycrazy

I was intrigued by this for my mom, who has a laundry list of health problems that have made losing weight difficult for her. She is not a candidate for surgery due to her health, so if it received FDA approval I think it would be a good option for her.