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This information tells you about your appointment with the Bariatric Surgery Team.

This information will help you prepare for your surgery and tells you about the long-term lifestyle changes that you will need to make after surgery.

Bartholin glands can be found on either side of the entrance to the vagina. These glands produce and secrete mucus to help the vagina stay moist. Sometimes the ducts to these glands can become blocked causing swelling known as a cyst.

Bile salts are made in the liver, and help to digest food, particularly fat, as it travels through the small bowel. If the bile salts are not reabsorbed in the ileum, they continue on in the gut into the colon, where they draw a lot of water into the bowel, creating ongoing problems with diarrhoea.

Information about the biliary drainage procedure.

Biologics used as skin treatments are medicines used for long term (chronic) skin conditions. Biosimilars can be thought of as copies of Biologics.

BiPAP is a treatment to help with breathing.