complication
Dumping syndrome
Dumping occurs when food, especially sugar, moves too quickly from the stomach to the duodenum—the first part of the small —in the upper (GI) tract. This condition is also called rapid emptying. It is mostly associated with conditions following gastric or , though it can also arise secondary to or to the use of certain medications; it is caused by an absent or insufficiently functioning pyloric sphincter, the valve between the stomach and the duodenum.
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Causes — why it happens
- ·Gastrectomy, bypass , , surgery, absent or inefficient pyloric sphincter, pyloric
Complications
- ·, digestive diseases, electrolyte imbalance,
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