AIBU to have been shocked of the selling of IV drips in our shopping centre.

[Trialanderror02]

Hi
bit of background my DD has intestinal failure, and so requires IV nutrition via a central line every day for 14 hours. This has landed us in many tricky dangerous situations over the years. Her IV nutrition bags are for fluids / vitamins / micro elements / metals / glucose. This bags are yellow fluid not usual IV saline bags.
We were shopping yesterday for pyjamas in Westfield’s and I was shocked to discover in a pop up seating area with IV stands and 2 women taking selfies attached to these exact looking IV bags, apparently this is a thing 🙈 I looked at the “ menu “ which literally looked like a cocktail bar menu. You could design you own IV bag by adding certain elements for more money etc.
Am I behind the times to be shocked about this casually being sold in the middle of a shopping centre ?
One of them is called a party drip.

Yee-ha. Get yourself connected to a bag of Pabrinex as needed by alcoholics so they don't end up with dementia (and other genuine medical conditions). Such a clever way to spend your money. Utterly risk free.

www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/6571

1. Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each presentation (carton) contains either 5 ml or 10 ml ampoules. Each pair of ampoules to be used in treatment is labelled Pabrinex No 1 and Pabrinex No 2.

Each No 1 ampoule contains:

5 ml ampoule/10 ml ampoule

Thiamine Hydrochloride

250 mg/500 mg

Riboflavin (as Phosphate Sodium)

4 mg/8 mg

Pyridoxine Hydrochloride

50 mg/100 mg

Each No 2 ampoule contains:

5 ml ampoule/10 ml ampoule

Ascorbic Acid

500 mg/1000 mg

Nicotinamide

160 mg/320 mg

Glucose (as Monohydrate)

1000 mg/2000 mg

Excipients with known effect:

This medicinal product contains 79 mg sodium per 1 pair of 5 ml ampoules, equivalent to 4% of the WHO recommended maximum daily intake of 2 g sodium for an adult.

This medicinal product contains 158 mg sodium per 1 pair of 10 ml ampoules, equivalent to 8% of the WHO recommended maximum daily intake of 2 g sodium for an adult.

Fucking knobs.

These are everywhere in Vegas.

@Trialanderror02 I doubt it's the same stuff, but I totally get that you would feel like that.

We refuse to put teenagers who come in drunk on IV fluids as they don't wake up with a hangover. The doctors are more sympathetic than us mean nurses.

Surely if they are at risk of being dehydrated they should be on fluids? If they're coming into hospital they must be in a really bad way. Do you actually refuse to rehydrate your patients or were you joking?

@Toddlerteaplease that’s the issue it is the same stuff. 🤣
The vamin TPN bags ( not the lipid ones ) are basically what they are selling.

Just when you think you've heard everything...

I saw this last year in Westfield and was quite aghast

They have been around for a while, they’re great for a hangover.

I heard about it awhile ago. I think they walk a thin line with their unsubstantiated claims. Plus I think their pop ups are a bit ridiculous.

Surely if they are at risk of being dehydrated they should be on fluids? If they're coming into hospital they must be in a really bad way. Do you actually refuse to rehydrate your patients or were you joking?
I have heard of this, it is real. They do enough for them not to come to any harm but not so that they come out feeling fine and, potentially, doing it again. I can totally see the point.

Who on earth is actually paying for this?! There's no way I'd let a total random stick a needle in me so I could have a bag of who knows what pumped into my veins.

Do they have to be licenced or medically trained? Or can they just rock up and decide this is their new business venture?

That's unbelievable. I'm going to have to have an IV for a medical procedure in the not too distant future and I'm dreading it. Why on earth would anyone have one voluntarily?

@fuckfuckingcovid19

We refuse to put teenagers who come in drunk on IV fluids as they don't wake up with a hangover. The doctors are more sympathetic than us mean nurses.

Surely if they are at risk of being dehydrated they should be on fluids? If they're coming into hospital they must be in a really bad way. Do you actually refuse to rehydrate your patients or were you joking?

I doubt she's joking, some nurses are bloody sadistic. I had one scoff at me disbelievingly when I told her I was in pain after major kidney surgery, she refused to give me anything for the pain and I ended up with post-op pneumonia because I was unable to get up out of bed and move around. Other times I've been in hospital I've witnessed them completely ignoring many people in severe pain for days on end.

My mother is also a TPN user. She is disabled and it keeps her alive. Its an unpleasant treatment to need and restricts your quality of life if you need it constantly.

I find it utterly bizarre that people would undergo the procedure for fun. For a start why can’t a healthy person just eat the nutrition needed? It’s like going around in a wheelchair when you don’t need one or using unnecessary crutches! Weird!

I am suprised a shopping centre is a clean enough environment for IV to be administered to be honest. When my mum is connected it needs to be down by a nurse in a sterile environment.

I once dated a paramedic, him and his mates use to hook themselves up to it drips to cure their hangovers.

I can see this doing bad like the whole liquid ice in cocktails thing.

I also saw this on dragon’s den. The dragons didn’t like it.
I remember being shocked by the cost too. Did you see how much they were charging?

@fuckfuckingcovid19 no. Not joking. They Will drink when they wake up. But if they wake up with no hangover, they'll do it again. If they are actually severely dehydrated then obviously they'd get fluid. But they usually aren't.

Yes there are quite a few one them where I am (SA). They are in most of the shopping centers. There always seems to be people in there. One of them is called IV Bar. Yes there is a whole menu and you can pick and choose which drip you want. One of my fiends clients owns one so he got invited for a freebie (they are quite pricy) and he said he wasn't bounding around with energy not did he feel any different after.

You can get them in salons and spas as well.

@Trialanderror02 that would be the Vamin, that has to be custom made according to the patients blood result!

I'm not a sadist at all.

Your daughter sound like a star, well done

This reminds me of the Hunger Games books where the rich people eat until they are full, then take a special drink which makes them sick so they can eat more food again straight away. Kind of like this with a hangover cure. Drink until you're ill, take a drip, then drink more. WTAF

I've heard about these.
Tbh in my mind there is no difference to this and letting a non medical staff inject face with who knows what...
Or salons do vit b12 injections.

Surprising number of people trusts non medical stuff to put things into their bodies👀 I don't trust even the medical staff😂

@isthismylifenow it wouldn’t make you feel better unless you were actually low in any of the stuff you just paid for lol
Also even it did make you temp better you would need it every day for it actually make w difference to your life unless you are hungover and then yes the fluid context would make you feel better. It’s a giant dangerous scam and absolutely shocked.

fuckfuckingcovid19 no. Not joking. They Will drink when they wake up. But if they wake up with no hangover, they'll do it again. If they are actually severely dehydrated then obviously they'd get fluid. But they usually aren't.

Ok, so to doctors would just be putting them on IV fluids to stop them from getting a hangover then? Rather than them needing it for actual treatment?
Tbh though I'm not sure a hangover really stops teens from drinking too much.

I thought people did this as a hang over cure kind of thing ...
never seen it in a shopping centre though

A fitness franchise I LOVED started offering this ‘treatment’ at their head office/ lead studio. And then offered it on a wellness day as an add-on. They also flog vitamin B injections. It’s put me right off them, tbh.