Gastric water balloons can be harmful.
The role of gastric water balloon is to place a water capsule in the stomach to occupy the volume of stomach content, causing a sense of satiety, reducing dietary intake for dieting.
Some patients will experience slight pain in the stomach after the water balloon is placed in the stomach, and the water balloon has a compression effect on the mucosa in the stomach, and long-term placement in the stomach will cause some gastric diseases, such as gastric mucosal erosion, ulceration, corrosion of the entire stomach.
After removing the water balloon, the patient’s appetite will suddenly increase, the weight will rebound, and the sudden increase in diet will also aggravate the digestive pressure of the stomach easily causing gastric distension and stomach pain; if the water balloon ruptures, it may cause intestinal obstruction and jeopardize the patient’s life.