A Chicago surgeon said NBC-TV‘s broadcast personality Al Roker’s revelation he pooped his pants while at the White House said it was a sort of “feedback.”

As he was promoting his book “Never Goin‘ Back: Winning the Weight-Loss Battle For Good” on his life after bariatric surgery, Roker told NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman on “Dateline” he thought he was passing gas during a White House event when George W. Bush was president, but instead he soiled his pants, resulting in his shedding of undergarments to “go commando.”

Dr. Bipan Chand, director Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, who was not involved in Roker‘s surgery, said the weatherman’s phenomenon was known as “dumping.”

“One might be a gastrointestinal process that includes consumption of a high sugar load that leads to intestinal influx of fluid,” Chand said in a statement. “This can lead to diarrhea as well as vomiting and can occur in many post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients but does not occur in all of them.”

Chand, who has performed more than 2,000 bariatric procedures, including the Roux-en-Y treatment, said dumping was almost like a negative feedback mechanism for patients.

“If diarrhea or vomiting due to improper eating occurs on a frequent basis, patients self-correct their behavior and refrain from consuming those foods that cause the undesirable symptoms,” Chand said.

The other manifestation of dumping might include a glucose imbalance.

“An overestimation of the amount of insulin the body needs to process the same sugar load will not lead to intestinal symptoms but to rapid fluctuations in blood sugar,” Chand said. “The blood sugar might go up rapidly after the consumption and then bottom out. This may lead to feelings of rapid heart rate and sweating. The bottom line is that after intestinal surgery for weight loss, patients must remain focused on all aspects of health including dietary discretion, dietary supplementation and physical activity.” (UPI)

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유명방송인, 바지에 실례, 속옷없이 진행

시카고의 한 외과의사가 방송인 알 로커(Al Roker)가 실수로 바지에 변을 본 이유를 설명했다.

로커는 당시 비만 수술을 받은 뒤 자신의 저서인 “네버 고잉 백(Never Goin‘ Back: Winning the Weight-Loss Battle For Good)” 의 홍보 행사에 참가하는 중이 었다.

비만 수술 분야 전문가인 바이판 찬드(Bipan Chand) 박사는 로커가 보인 현상은 “덤핑(dumping)”이라 불린다고 말했다.

“당분 소비가 많으면 위장에 액체가 증가합니다. 이로 인해 설사나 구토가 발생할 수 있고요. Roux-en-Y 비만 수술을 받은 환자들 중 일부가 이 같은 현상을 경험합니다"라고 설명했다.

찬드는 Roux-en-Y 비만 수술을 포함해 2,000건 이상의 비만 수술을 시행했으며 덤핑은 수술의 부작용으로 꼽힌다고 전했다.

“음식을 잘못 먹고 설사나 구토를 하는 경우가 잦다면 스스로 당이 많거나 위장에 부담을 주는 음식을 먹는 것을 삼가야합니다.”

찬드 박사는 또다른 징후로 글루코스 불균형이 있다고 덧붙였다. (코리아헤럴드)