Dumping syndrome is the term collectively used for representing many symptoms that occur after you underwent stomach surgery. It develops on people who had recently undergone surgery for removing part of stomach. Symptoms of dumping syndrome may range from mild to severe. It can be treated completely by making small changes in your diet habit and by medications.
Symptoms :
Symptoms of dumping syndrome appear as quickly as you finished eating or after 3 hours of eating anything. Undigested food particles of the stomach move rapidly into the intestine before getting fully absorbed. Some of the common symptoms of dumping syndrome that occur shortly after a meal are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. Often, it would cause feeling of fullness in your stomach making it difficult to eat anymore. For some people, it may cause dizziness and rapid heartbeat.
Symptoms that occur 2-3 hours after eating are fatigue, profuse sweating and hunger. All these symptoms occur due to deposition of large volumes of sugar particles into the intestine leading to excess secretion of insulin which in turn lowers the blood sugar level. Some people may feel dizzy and confused with heart palpitation. They may faint and lose consciousness for few minutes. The symptoms get worse after a heavy meal.
Causes :
During gastric surgery which is done often to lose weight, some parts of the stomach are removed and a bypass is created. This would subsequently affect the normal movement of the food which in turn gets dumped into the small intestine rapidly. Food particles along with gastric juices move from the stomach to the intestine in a rapid fashion without any control.
It is due to the removal of pylorus (a part that connects stomach with the small intestine). Without any brake or barrier to control the food movement, all the food materials gets into the small intestine which in turn releases volumes of insulin to process the food.