What is 'dumping syndrome'?

What is 'dumping syndrome'?

Dumping syndrome is caused by bypassing the stomach with the digestive process. What happens is food is, in medical terms, called very hyperosmolar. And osmolar means it's very dense, very concentrated. The stomach processes the food and brings it to a state of what we call isomolarity, which is it's equal in concentration to, essentially your blood and the fluids that are in your body. By bypassing your stomach, that food goes directly into your intestine and the intestines absorb water out of your body causing a syndrome. Which is you get dizzy because your blood volume has gone down, even though it's not bleeding, but it's the amount of volume that's there. And with that, the food passes very rapidly through your system and you develop diarrhea.