Gastric Bypass: Causes Patients To Feel Cold (((( got this from anot
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Gelfey Sterling
BellaOnline’s Allergies and Colds Editor
Gastric Bypass: Causes Patients To Feel Cold
Our Body temperature is basically the result of your body producing and
radiating heat. The body is adept at keeping its temperature within a range even
though prevailing air conditions vary. A normal body temperature is 98.6°F. It’s
basically common during the period of excess weight loss for bariatric patients
to feel cold, even when they feel their temperature reads normal.
According to an article published in ezinearticles.com-People who experience the
excessive weight loss associated with weight loss surgery experience feeling
cold just because of two reasons: loss of insulation and less energy generation.
Fat is a highly efficient insulator. When gastric bypass patients follow the
rules: eating protein and exercising, the weight lost can only come from fat or
stored energy. In effect you are losing your insulation. Less insulation
increases the likelihood that you will feel cold.
The second reason for feeling chilled or cold is that the metabolic cell
processes are not working as hard as when you were heavier; it takes less
calories and less energy to maintain and move a smaller body.
The body has two well-tuned mechanisms for regulating body temperature: sweating
and shivering. What overweight person hasn’t been embarrassed by a sticky bout
of sweating at the most inappropriate time? Sweating is a mechanism for cooling
your body when it becomes too hot inside. The body rids itself of excess heat by
expanding the blood vessels in the skin so the heat may be carried to the
surface. When this energy or heat in the form of sweat reaches the skin’s
surface it evaporates and helps cool the body.
Gastric bypass patients become more familiar with the second temperature
regulator, shivering, as they lose weight. When you are too cold your blood
vessels will contract reducing blood flow to the skin. The body responds by
shivering which creates extra muscle activity to help generate more heat.
Most weight loss patients report that their body temperature regulates after
their weight is stabilized, usually eighteen to twenty-four months after
surgery. Keep in mind your body is rapidly losing weight and the rest of your
body’s functions are caught off guard when this weight loss begins.
HAVE A GREAT DAY
STACY LYNN BECK
open RNY on 03,10 ,2004
Hernia repair Jan,14,05
427.6/183.6/ Dr.M wants me to get down to 160 by March, 2006
new goals to fly in a plane
or go out in a boat….