 Lynda Taylor died after having the surgery to help her lose weight |
The husband of a woman who died after having gastric bypass surgery has urged overweight women to consider other options before going under the knife. Peter Taylor, from Rotherham, spoke after an inquest into the death of his 33-year-old wife Lynda.
She died in January after developing an infection following the surgery at the Hull and East Riding Hospital.
Coroner Geoffrey Saul recorded a narrative verdict at Mrs Taylor's inquest on Wednesday.
The inquest heard the mother-of-one, who weighed 16 stone and was just over 5ft, had suffered from depression.
Grave consequences
Mr Taylor said on Thursday: "I would urge women to think very hard before going for it. If it works, fine, but if not the consequences are grave.
"When you are big then you will do anything, it doesn't matter what the dangers are, you will just do it.
"That was Lynda's problem. She just wanted to be thin. She had heard it had been successful for other women and she just wanted it so badly.
"You don't expect to go into surgery and not come out." he added.
The self-confessed chocoholic had tried dieting as well as an anti-obesity drug, but the two stones she lost crept back on. A gastric bypass was considered the best way forward.
The coroner said Mrs Taylor died "from peritonitis following complications that arose after elective intra-abdominal surgery."
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