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Insurance Required Diet Plans
Meet Your Dieticians
Due to the increasing demand from insurance companies for documented medically supervised weight loss programs, Bluepoint Surgical Group offers a series of three and 6 month consecutive classes designed to meet insurance company’s approval criteria for bariatric surgery. It is important that you become aware of your particular insurance policies criteria with regards bariatric surgery, completion of this program does not in any way guarantee approval from your insurance company.
LAP BAND®, Laparoscopic Gastric Banding, REALIZE Band and Gastric Bypass are restrictive procedures in that they both reduce the portion size you are able to eat. Gastric Bypass also causes malabsorption of some nutrients by bypassing the lower part of the stomach and upper part of the small intestine, putting the bypass patients at greater risk for nutritional deficiencies. Both surgeries have the potential to cause nutritional deficiencies because of the drastically reduced portion size. For these reasons it is very important to supplement your diet with the following: Protein, Multivitamin, B-12, Calcium and Iron (if applicable).
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Daily Vitamin and Mineral Guidelines
Once you are ready for surgery your dietitian will develop a vitamin and mineral regime that is specific for your needs. The following is a list of potential vitamin requirements, you may or may not have to supplement with the entire list.
Multivitamin
- The daily requirements are 2 per day required for gastric bypass, and 1 per day for banding patients.
- Choose a brand that contains both, iron and vitamin K.
- Due to the large size of mulitiviamins, it is recommended that you chose a chewable.
- Centrum adult chewable
- Centrum silver chewable
- The daily requirement for calcium intake is 1200-1500mg. This level is important to maintain in order to prevent osteoporosis.
- Calcium citarate is the most appropriate type of calcium for weight loss surgery patients. Citrate is easily absorbed and is not required to be taken with food. DO NOT PURCHASE CALCIUM CARBONATE.
- Our bodies can only absorb 500-600mg of calcium at one time, therefore calcium supplementation must be spread out over the day.
- Vitamin B-12 is used to increase energy and boost metabolism.
- B-12 comes in a sublingual (dissolve under the tongue) form.
- Recommended dose is 500mcg/day or, 1000mcg/every other day, or 5000mcg/week.
- Only required for Gastric Bypass Patients.
- Taken once daily and it provides a combination of all B vitamins.
- After a bypass, your body does not absorb all B vitamins, therefore this is a very important supplement that must be taken daily.
- Typically only needed for menstruating women, or patients with a history of anemia.
- Every patients blood work will be reviewed by the dietitian prior to surgery to determine if there is need for supplemental iron.
- Iron is best absorbed in the presence of Vitamin C. Many over the counter iron supplements contain vitamin C, such as Vitron-C.
- Taken only on an as needed basis.
- Papaya Enzyme is a natural meat tenderizer that aids in breaking down foods that gets caught or feels stuck after swallowing.
Calcium Citrate
Vitamin B-12 (Cobalamine)
B-Complex (B-50)
Additional Iron
Papaya Enzyme