What You Should Know About IV Drip Therapy

If you have heard about IV drip therapy from celebrities or have seen stands set up at music festivals offering IV drip therapy services, you may be curious about what this therapy is and what benefits it can have. Learn more about IV drip therapy and then, you can decide if it is a treatment option you would like to consider for your life. 

1. What Is IV Drip Therapy?

IV drip therapy is an infusion of vitamins and other nutrients directly into the bloodstream. The vitamins can include vitamin C (the most common choice) and B vitamins, among others. There are also nutrients like calcium, magnesium, and glutathione (an antioxidant). 

2. How Often Do You Need IV Drip Therapy?

IV drip therapy is a treatment that has effects almost immediately. However,  these effects are not long-lasting. As such, you may want to get regular IV drip treatments. You should not go to get IV drip therapy more than once every couple of weeks. This allows the vitamins to work their way through the body and do their job. It also ensures you are not getting stuck with a needle more often than necessary.

The exception is if you are getting cancer treatments and are doing IV drip therapy to help with vitamin levels. Then, you could theoretically go weekly or several times a week for treatment. 

3. What Are the Benefits?

There are numerous benefits to trying IV drip therapy. The first is, of course, to help with vitamin deficiencies. So many people eating a standard American diet have deficiencies in essential vitamins and nutrients. This can have several effects on the body and overall well-being of a person. 

IV drip therapy is often touted as a hangover cure as well. This is because it replenishes fluids in the body and can contain important electrolytes that are depleted when drinking alcohol and/or vomiting as a result of alcohol use. 

Other benefits of IV drip therapy can include improved energy, improved gastrointestinal health, or help with jet lag, among many other things. Overall, if you want to improve your well-being and get a strong dose of vitamins directly into the bloodstream (rather than through less effective digestive absorption from oral multivitamins), IV drip therapy may be a good option for you. 

Now that you know some of the facts about IV drip therapy, you can consider scheduling your first treatment appointment.



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