well, hi there tybee! it's nice to see you - and thanks Harpo for moving this thread.
in people who haven't had GASTRIC BYPASS, there are SOME people who say that ya shouldn't drink with your meals, but most people - professionals and such - don't buy into that.
ya see, there are lots of differences between people who've had gastric bypass and people with normal digestion. Three big ones are the fact that the stomach has some sort of grinding action to help break up the food, the shape of the stomach and the PYLORIC VALVE. in unsurgeried folks. that grinding action means that food doesn't have to be chewed to mush in order to be digested. the shape of the stomach allows food/liquid to be sort of 'stored' in the stomach, and the pyloric valve is a sort of 'meter' that gradually lets the food go into the intestines.
after the GASTRIC BYPASS or vertical gastrectomy [i think that's what it's called] [not the lapband, or duodenal switch], there's no more pyloric valve, and the stomach is about the size of a small-ish egg. the outlet to the intestines is the diameter of a nickel, so now ya gotta think of your food as a tube of toothpaste - a thick mush of well-chewed-up food pushing through a tiny whole. and THAT'S why we can't drink with meals!!!
for lapbanders, the process is sort of similar, but the difference is that there's a sort of pouch that's made at the top of the stomach, that acts like the bypass, as far as storing food and letting it into the system, but for lapbanders, the food goes from the pouch into the REST OF THE STOMACH, complete with pyloric valve.
did i confuse you even more???
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