Deficiências nutricionais e suplementação em cirurgia bariátrica

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to review the literature about the nutritional deficiencies resulting from bariatric surgery as well as to approach the importance of supplementation in patients submitted into a surgery. Knowing that the obesity is a public health problem and is related to the development of the others chronic diseases that we have as one of the most known and recurrent treatments to perform bariatric surgery. Patients submitted into a surgery may develop nutritional deficiency because of the limited ingestion and absorption of some nutrients such as vitamin B12, folic acid, thiamine, iron, calcium, vitamin A, D, E and K. Supplementation and nutritional monitoring are strategies determinants to promote the success of the obesity’s treatment and promotion of the life’s quality of this public.