When can you start drinking alcohol after surgery?
It depends on the type of surgery. With gastric bypass surgery, one must wait six months, while cosmetic surgery is a few weeks.
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About Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric Bypass Surgery (GBP) is a blanket term for any number of surgeries that divide the stomach in to a smaller upper pouch and a lower remnant pouch, and then rearranges the small intestine to connect both pouches. The operation is prescribed to treat morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and sleep apnea. The surgeries typically result in dramatic weight loss and reduces co-morbidities. The long-term mortality rate of GPB patients has been shown to be reduced by up to 40 percent.
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About Cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. It is best known for aesthetic surgery, cosmetic surgery also includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.
About Surgery
Surgery is an invasive technique employed to treat medical conditions inside the body untreatable by traditional medicine. Surgery could be anything as benign as having a tooth pulled, to stitches, to multiple by pass heart surgery, when veins are removed from parts of the leg and used to bypass clogged arteries and veins around the heart. Plastic surgery begun as a way to treat patients maimed by war or accidents, but has since developed into the augmentation of breasts and the removal of unwanted fat.
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