Tuesday, August 12, 2014

High Importance! Must Read! On-demand intravenous fluids questioned

IV products in short supply, yet hangover cure businesses open
By Sarah C.B. Guthrie  |  HSNewsBeat  |  Updated 10:30 AM, 08.11.2014
 
You’ve seen movies about long nights of Las Vegas-style partying. Have you heard of the new cure? Just go to your local hangover cure bus, receive a vitamin cocktail intravenously, and – poof – your hangover is gone and you can get back to partying. What could possibly go wrong?

Plenty, it turns out.

This rising wave of so-called “hangover cure” businesses opening in Las Vegas, New York, LA, and South Florida offer vitamin and drug “cocktails” that are delivered intravenously. But there are unanswered questions about this new industry's risk and its impact.

The U.S. is in an IV supply crisis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates intravenous vitamins, electrolyte, and nutritional products as drugs, unlike over the counter vitamins and supplements.
  
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