Recreational IV drips may be most famously associated with hangovers, but they can purportedly alleviate a wide range of symptoms, such as dehydration, brain fog, nausea and lethargy. Prices vary by city and type of IV cocktail, but basic drips start at about $150 and can rise fivefold or more... A number of Four Seasons spas — Orlando, Washington D.C., Maui, New York City — offer the amenity....
[A]ctress Sofia Vergara... provided the amenity at her 2015 nuptials. Since then... the “bougie luxury service” has gone mainstream....
This is part of a larger phenomenon of rejecting natural life. Everything becomes a medical issue, and people feel fortunate to gain access to a regimen of treatments.
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Wait until they claim an IV can cure Ozempic Face.
When the inevitable lawsuits are filed, this too shall pass, not unlike actresses like Sofia Vergara.
Things have come a long way from a couple of aspirin and a banana.
How many Trump voters will we find in this demographic? I'm frankly ashamed at myself for the thought, but I can't help it. You can build a solid career on this thing, it seems. Self-care is more effective with a team of medical professionals.
Welcome to 2024.
An arid land of vapidity…
Stories like this make me think of Michael Jackson and his --unfortunately fatal-- propofol IV drip. The "hospital experience", that isn't my idea of having fun on vacation. It also makes me think of "White Lotus", I could see this being a story line in that show.
Prices vary by city
Cleveland is where you want to get your drip. They're pretty good there and dirt cheap.
The IV drip is a Matrix supercharger.
During the great COVID confinement, there were nurses in this area hustling bucks by coming to your home and plugging you in to a vitamin cocktail. My wife had one for her second COVID infection, and she claimed it helped her get through it very quickly. The nurse took us through what was in it - zinc, vitamins, etc., all the ingredients that the heretics-of-the-hour like the Front Line Doctors were saying you ought to be taking to boost the immune system, and either prevent an infection or ameliorate one. He also said that, like a cold or flu, just getting properly hydrated went a long way.
But: Designer IV's for social occasions? Geez. How long will it be, before they start spiking them with grain alcohol, or microdoses, or worse, just for laughs?
I recall in the military, after a weekend of coffee and little water, Monday morning 5 miler had me "feeling like death". The med staff gave me IV drip, and it worked wonders.
Know what else helps with dehydration? Drinking water.
In two weeks I’m obliged (meaning I’m signing the couple’s ketuba) to attend a wedding in Beverly Hills on a 30-acre estate with catering by Wolfgang Puck. It’s easily costing the bride’s parents close to $1M.
It will not be a surprise if there’s an IV tent available, and a supply of Ozempic as a lovely parting gift.
We want solutions, and we want them now. Do not burden us with traditional diets, exercise, etc.
Because, you know, it is so difficult to drink a glass of Gatorade or to pop a Vit Bi2 or Vit C pill whenever you want to.
Idiots paying through the nose for expensive urine because it's trendy.
Weird, I'm the opposite. I won't even take Advil unless I'm in near hobbling pain.
It is nice that brain fog can be cured by drip--which now means "very swag and cool." Cool has always been the best medicine. But what is this brain fog anyway? Ngram charts its use from nothing in the 80s and rising steeper and steeper ever since. It has no medical definition. Per WebMD "It’s a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think." Possible culprits: "[d]epression, anxiety, stress, drugs (legal or illegal) or alcohol, insomnia, aging, jet lag, Lyme disease, antihistamines, lupus, hormonal changes during pregnancy, too much screen time." Yikes. Stay cool folks.
Do they offer soma in the IV drip therapy? What a brave new world we are creating.
IV hydration works for hangovers, but is unnecessary because drinking electrolyte beverages also works. You just have to taste the electrolyte drinks.
Aggie said...
During the great COVID confinement, there were nurses in this area hustling bucks by coming to your home and plugging you in to a vitamin cocktail. My wife had one for her second COVID infection, and she claimed it helped her get through it very quickly. The nurse took us through what was in it - zinc, vitamins, etc., all the ingredients that the heretics-of-the-hour like the Front Line Doctors were saying you ought to be taking to boost the immune system, and either prevent an infection or ameliorate one. He also said that, like a cold or flu, just getting properly hydrated went a long way.
Hmmm... another thing that appears to work. Just about everything worked against the dreaded covid except= the officially authorized medicines, covid vaccines, vaccines, and approved therapies- respirators until you die.
There is no fucking way I am getting an IV drip on vacation administered by some local untrained idiot.
This is part of a larger phenomenon of rejecting natural life.
No more so than birth-control pills, which are accepted by all but a few, including you.
This isn't a new thing. I remember reading about this years ago. People would go to Vegas and then order up a nurse the next morning to give them an IV to alleviate their hangover.
I'm not surprised if it is becoming more common. (Plus, I suspect more people are drinking to excess than they were a few years ago.)
To quote Montgomery Scott, "Don't get drunk if you're not willing to pay for it the next day."
Kirk Parker said...
"Know what else helps with dehydration? Drinking water."
Actually, you don't want to do that. Drinking too much water if you're dehydrated can lead to hyponatremia. (Which can be fatal.)
You need to drink drinks that also contain electrolytes.
“ Blogger Kirk Parker said...
Know what else helps with dehydration? Drinking water.”
An idea so crazy it just might work!
Put a little salt and sugar in your water. It will work better.
"IV hydration works for hangovers, but is unnecessary because drinking electrolyte beverages also works. You just have to taste the electrolyte drinks."
You sound like a marketing VP at Brawndo, not that there's anything wrong with that.
I know this was a few days ago but it caught my attention.
In the summer of 2000 I led a "mission trip" from the church where I was serving to Skope, Macedonia, for one week to help start English classes. After the first few days I felt terrible, weak and nauseous, despite drinking plenty of water in the hot, dry Balkan weather. At a meeting in Tetovo, a local overheard me telling someone about this. He took me to his dad's medical clinic. Where I was given an IV for dehydration.
The next day we had a field trip to a nearby national park, where we met some Albanian friends, and hiked to the top of a small "mountain" (tall hill). Most of the group were in their early 20s.
I beat them to the top. The IV made that much of a difference. Drinking water is not enough.
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