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To explain: The reason why dizziness, weakness, and tachycardia may occur immediately after a meal in a postgastrectomy patients.
Concept introduction: Dumping syndrome (rapid gastric emptying) is a condition that arises after a meal, in which the ingested food (especially sugar) moves too quickly from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine (duodenum). Dumping syndrome is developed in the people who have undergone a surgery to remove a significant part of stomach (gastric resection).
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To explain: The reason why dizziness, weakness, and tachycardia may occur 2 to 3 hours after eating in a postgastrectomy patients.
Concept introduction: Dumping syndrome (rapid gastric emptying) is a condition that arises after a meal, in which the ingested food (especially sugar) moves too quickly from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine (duodenum). Dumping syndrome is developed in the people who have undergone a surgery to remove a significant part of stomach (gastric resection).
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