Gastric bypass patients often have nutritional complications, with difficulty consuming enough calories or variety of food. Collagen wound products have been shown to be more effective in closing wounds faster than gauze.
Bypass surgery: Gastric bypass surgery continues to grow in popularity for the treatment of obesity despite the cost, recovery time, and risk of surgical complications. Gastric bypass will result in a great deal of weight loss, forcing many to seek surgical removal of excess skin. Wound dehiscence can be a significant risk arising from a body lift procedure. A failed incision places a strain on the health care system and an unexpected burden on caregivers. Collagen wound dressings should be a standard product for hospitals, trauma clinics and doctor’s offices with proven results in achieving faster wound closure than traditional methods.
Surgical complications in gastric bypass surgery
- Gastric bypass clients are at higher risk for complications such as perforation for several reasons.
- Long procedures such as abdominoplasty, lower body lift, breast lift, thigh lift and brachioplasty can be combined into one long session.
- Gastric bypass patients often have nutritional complications, with difficulty consuming enough calories or variety of food.
- If a gastric bypass patient develops trauma after a body lift, obtaining adequate nutrition may be more difficult due to limitations in stomach capacity.
- Open surgical incisions are often not clean wounds. Typically necrotic tissue, drainage, and potential infection complicate the treatment plan. The infection must be treated to prevent sepsis.
- The patient will experience stress from the unexpected downtime and more time away from their caregiving family responsibilities. Fast wound healing will be the best possible and most desirable outcome. Collagen wound products have been shown to be more effective in closing wounds faster than gauze.
“Collagen provides the skin with all the materials it needs to repair itself. Patients will spend less time in hospitals, have fewer complications and spend less time making dressing changes with this technology. HBS has several products suitable for the rapid healing of surgical wounds, including gels, sheets and particles. We are currently developing over-the-counter products that will be easily accessible to people at home trying to treat a small opening, which is very exciting,” said Rohan Jain, COO of Human BioSciences Inc.
Human Life Sciences
Human Biosciences brings over 30 years of industry experience in the research and development of biotechnology solutions to achieve wound healing. Human BioSciences’ proprietary Kollagen technology protects and maintains a significantly more native triple-helical protein structure, thereby enabling superior molecule and scaffold stability in all four phases of wound healing.
After the invention of Kollagen and Chemical Z, HBS continues to serve thousands of hospitals, wound care clinics, nursing homes, and private practitioners in various care settings with their specialty products for diabetic wounds, surgical wounds, and many other problematic conditions traditional medicine cannot effectively treat.
Old fashioned bandages and antiseptics and the like just aren’t enough for many wounds. Human Bioscience’s safe and natural Medifil II Collagen Particles and Skin Temp II collagen sheets are the only collagen products on the market that contain 100% natural bovine collagen, which maintains its triple helix shape and high protein structure, allowing for superior stability and structure, helping wounds heal faster.
Collagen is essential for wound healing at all stages and the human body recognizes and accepts it immediately.
