Some patients of gastric bypass report surprise side effect
Posted: 06/19/2012
For hundred of thousands of Americans, gastric bypass is a life saver.
The surgery often transform their lives, but now a new study says some are experiencing a new side effect --alcoholism.
This is even in patients who never had a problem with alcohol before.
Doctors say the surgery shrinks the stomach, limiting how much you eat and drink.
It also forces any alcohol you drink to go straight into your intestines, where the body absorbs it rapidly.
Patients get drunk more quickly and that can make the unfamiliar rush more addictive.
The observational study was done out of the University of Pittsburg and involved almost two thousand adults.
((Source: www.abcnews.com))
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