What is Dumping Syndrome?
Dumping syndrome is a condition that can develop after surgery to remove all or part of your stomach or after surgery to bypass your stomach to help you lose weight. The condition can also develop in people who have had esophageal surgery.
Dumping syndrome occurs when food, especially sugar, moves from your stomach into your small bowel too quickly.
Most people with dumping syndrome develop signs and symptoms, such as abdominal cramps and diarrhea, 10 to 30 minutes after eating. Other people have symptoms one to three hours after eating, and still, others have both early and late symptoms.
Generally, you can help prevent dumping syndrome by changing your diet after surgery. Changes might include eating smaller meals and limiting high-sugar foods. In more- serious cases of dumping syndrome, you may need medications or surgery.
Signs and symptoms might include:
- Feeling bloated or too full after eating
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal cramps
- Diarrhea
- Flushing
- Dizziness, lightheadedness
- Rapid heart rate
In dumping syndrome, food and gastric juices from your stomach move to your small intestine in an uncontrolled, abnormally fast manner. This is most often related to changes in your stomach associated with surgery. Dumping syndrome can occur after any stomach surgery or major esophageal surgery, such as removal of the esophagus (esophagectomy).
Source:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dumping-syndrome/symptoms-
causes/syc-20371915
