IV Vitamin Therapy

IV Vitamin Therapy Treatment in Franklin & Nashville, TN

Preventative medicine has gained increasing popularity for those seeking a healthier lifestyle. With numerous benefits, IV vitamin therapy is one way to achieve this.

What Is IV Vitamin Therapy?

Through the Intravenous Vitamin (IV) Therapy technique, you can receive a healthy and safe dose of vitamins and minerals straight into your bloodstream. IV vitamin therapy services can provide you with more youthful skin, an increase in energy, weight loss stimulation, a morning hangover remedy, and a boost to your immune system.

However, these comprise only a few of the many health concerns IV vitamin therapy can improve or solve through an infusion of vitamins and minerals.

How Does IV Vitamin Therapy Work?

Generally, IV vitamin therapy infusions take anywhere between 20 minutes to an hour with a licensed medical professional overseeing the treatment. When conducting the IV vitamin therapy infusion, your body receives a higher vitamin concentration.

When you take a vitamin by mouth, it breaks down in your digestive tract and stomach, and your body only absorbs around 50% of it. However, if you receive your vitamins through an IV infusion, your body absorbs the vitamins not only faster but at a 90% higher rate.

The process works by providing you with a direct vitamin and mineral infusion such as high doses of magnesium or vitamin C. When you receive your vitamins through an IV, the nutrients bypass your digestive system for a faster shot of energy. You can receive a variety of different vitamin formulations depending on where you receive your therapy and your personal needs.

Why Is Vitamin Intake Important?

While vitamins don't provide your body with energy like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates do, they're essential nutrients that help your body function optimally. Some vitamins are known to help:

• Strengthen your bones
• Boost your immunity
• Bolster your eyesight
• Heal wounds
• Obtain energy from food

If you don't have a proper vitamin intake, you might:

• Be susceptible to infection
• Feel lethargic
• Develop other complications

Each vitamin has a specific function, or set of functions, that affect your body. However, these nutrients also work together to promote optimal health.

How Specific Vitamins Help Your Body

While it's essential for the body to intake a full spectrum of vitamins, there are notable differences between the benefits and effects of vitamin types.

1. Support Basic Functions

Vitamin A promotes healthy skin, teeth, bones, eyesight, and overall immune function. Vitamin D, with the help of the mineral calcium, encourages good bone health and a strong body defense system. Vitamin C helps your body absorb the mineral iron, promotes the development of healthy tissue, and provides immune protection.

Vitamin E accelerates the way your body uses vitamin K, helping in bone health and blood clotting. It also promotes red blood cell formation. The eight B vitamins promote regular heart functions, hormone production, the functioning of the cell and central nervous system duties, healthy brain function, and boosted metabolism.

2. Prevent Vitamin Deficiencies

When you don't have adequate vitamin intake, it puts your health at risk, leaving you more vulnerable to cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis. A vitamin B deficiency can result in anemia and permanent nerve damage. A lack of Vitamin C can keep your body from producing collagen. In rare cases, a severe vitamin C deficiency can cause you to develop scurvy, marked by:

• Fatigue
• Joint and muscle pain
• Swollen and spongy gums
• Red spots on the skin

Children with a vitamin D deficiency can develop rickets, which manifests as poor growth, deformities, and bone pain. In adults, it can contribute to high blood pressure, poor bone health, autoimmune diseases, and some forms of cancer.

3. Ensure Your Body Receives Enough Nutrients

You can ensure you get enough vitamins through a diet rich in various fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fortified dairy, lentils, dried beans, fish, and lean meat. But, not all people maintain this type of diet for a variety of reasons. Work schedules, lack of sleep, occupation type, travel demands, exercise routines, sports, and the various activities of daily living may contribute to the inability to sustain proper nutritional intake. This lack of nutrition is where IV vitamin therapy can help.

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The Benefits of IV Vitamin Therapy

IV vitamin therapy is the quickest way of providing your body with the nutrition it requires. Through this therapy, the vitamins bypass the digestive process and go directly into your bloodstream to provide you with quicker, more effective results. Here are some more benefits of IV vitamin therapy:

1. Boost Your Energy

If you suffer from anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, or even a respiratory illness or common cold, IV vitamin therapy can help by boosting your immune system so you feel energized and refreshed.

2. Guaranteed Vitamin Absorption

Some medical issues and medications can disrupt how your body absorbs the nutrients it requires for functioning correctly. IV vitamin therapy helps your body quickly and completely absorb these essential nutrients into your bloodstream so your body can use them right away.

3. Fast Treatment Times

Since most IV vitamin therapies are complete in under an hour, you won't need to spend hours sitting and waiting to finish treatment. You can relax in a comfortable environment during the process.

4. Ideal Preventive Therapy

IV vitamin therapy can help with preventive healthcare. Studies show therapeutic vitamin C doses are toxic to cancer cells and effective in building up your body's internal immunity.

5. Immediate Results

It can take up to 72 hours for food to digest after you eat. With IV therapy, you could experience almost instant positive effects on your body.

6. Fights Environmental Toxin Effects

Toxins in the environment you live in every day can take a toll on your appearance and health. IV therapy provides your body with antioxidants needed for flushing out harmful toxins from your body and fighting premature signs of aging.

The Risks of IV Vitamin Therapy

As with any medical practice, it's advised you complete your own research and always seek the advice of medical professionals prior to any treatments or services. The potential risks of IV Vitamin Therapy could include:

1. Infection

Each time the doctor or nurse inserts an IV, it creates a path directly into your bloodstream and bypasses your skin, which is your body's first defense against bacteria. While it's unlikely for you to develop an infection, it's essential you talk with the doctor performing the infusion to reduce this risk and make sure you receive a healthy vitamin infusion.

2. Too Many Vitamins

With IV vitamin therapy, there is a risk of receiving too much of a particular vitamin or mineral, increasing the chance of adverse effects. For instance, if you have kidney disease, you can't eliminate specific minerals and electrolytes from your body very quickly. If you have high blood pressure or an elevated heart condition, you could also be at risk of an overload of fluid from the infusion. Too much potassium in your system too quickly could potentially trigger a heart abnormality.

3. General Risks

Risks linked with IV vitamin therapy, in general, are vein inflammation, irritation at the source of the insertion, and blood clots, which could cause swelling and pain. The IV line could also introduce air embolisms, leading to stroke. If the infusions aren't monitored carefully and the fluid drips too fast, fluid overload could potentially cause electrolyte imbalances as well as brain, kidney, or heart damage.

What Are the Effects of IV Vitamin Therapy?

While patients often look toward the individual benefits of IV vitamin therapy, there are a number of positive medical effects resulting from the treatment. At SPRSI, we want our patients to understand the various desirable impacts of IV vitamin therapy outlined here.

1. Boosts Health

IV vitamin centers frequently boast about the benefits of this therapy, saying they could help with skin or hair health, cure a hangover, or boost immunity.

2. Body Absorbs Vitamins Faster

IV therapy ensures your body absorbs the vitamins and minerals quicker than they would through oral consumption.

3. Boosts Your Vitamin Stores

IV therapy will increase your internal stores faster. However, you'll need to keep taking the IV fluids to sustain those stores.

4. Increase Hydration Levels

IV vitamin therapy can provide some additional health benefits by boosting your levels of hydration. It does improve hydration, and for most individuals, it can help with a hangover, fighting a cold or infection, or simply feeling a little bit under the weather.

5. Body Retains or Processes Nutrients

IV therapy could offer you substantial benefits if you struggle with a health condition that makes it difficult for your body to retain or process nutrients. Receiving your nutrients through an IV will ensure they enter into your bloodstream directly, speeding up the replacement of nutrients.

Therefore, doctors often prescribe this therapy for various diagnosed health conditions. For instance, they may prescribe IV thiamine if you're going through alcohol withdrawal, IV multivitamins if you have a medical condition that makes it hard for your body to absorb or tolerate food in your stomach or intestines, or IV B12 if you receive renal dialysis.

IV Protocols to Choose From at SPRSI

If looking for IV Vitamin Therapy in Nashville, TN, Southern Plastic & Reconstructive Surgical Institute currently offers these four IV therapies for you to choose from:

1. "VIP" Treatment

Use "VIP" for the optimization of neurological and physical functions and the performance, detoxification, or expansion of immune support and energy production. It provides:

• Antioxidant properties that reduce inflammation
• Energy production through macronutrient metabolism and fatty acid
• Free radical elimination
• Illness minimization/prevention
• Liver detoxification

The "VIP" treatment contains taurine, zinc, vitamin C, glutathione, and B-complex vitamins.

2. "Radiance" Treatment

Use "Raidance" to help optimize the strength and integrity of your hair, skin, and nails. It can help to reduce scarring and improve fine lines and wrinkles. The many benefits it provides include:

• Maximizing your youthful appearance and glow
• Improving fine lines and wrinkles
• Helping with collagen synthesis
• Providing melanin regulation to even skin tone
• Preserving your skin's natural barrier which helps retain moisture
• Supporting anti-aging through the regeneration of vitamins A, C, and E
• Reducing scarring while providing anti-inflammatory effects to minimize acne flares and irritation
• Increasing the length of your nails and hair
• Combating free radicals with its antioxidant properties

The "radiance" therapy contains the ingredients glutathione, biotin, niacin, B-complex vitamins, and vitamin C.

3. "Slim" Treatment

Use "Slim" for the optimization of nutrient levels to increase metabolism, promote fat burning, and improve stamina and energy. The treatment may help to:

• Minimize or prevent fatigue
• Provide amino acid facilitation of liver fat breakdown
• Convert fatty acids to energy
• Lower cholesterol
• Provide formation of blood vessels
• Increase energy and metabolism

The "slim" treatment contains B12, inositol, methionine, vitamin C, L-Carnitine, B-complex vitamins, and choline.

4. "Surgery" Treatment

Use "Surgery" for optimizing both pre- and post-operative processes for promoting pain control, efficient tissue healing, and energy production while reducing your risk of infection. This treatment provides:

• Protein synthesis
• Heartbeat regulation
• Maintenance of muscle and nerve function
• Increased bone strength
• Improved circulation through vasodilation
• Elimination of free radicals to improve wound healing and strength
• Elimination of pain receptors
• Minimization of inflammation
• Mental relaxation

The "surgery" treatment contains procaine, zinc, vitamin C, calcium, and magnesium.

For all four of our treatment options, the protocol includes an intravenous infusion that helps with maximizing the direct supplement absorption. This absorption leads to an early or immediate result while reducing breakdown and secretion of the nutrients.

Talk With a Doctor

If you're wondering what to expect during treatment, you should talk with a doctor you trust. Research where to get IV Vitamin therapy and ensure a reputable practitioner will provide and monitor your infusions. Prepare to give a thorough medical history, including any health issues you've had and if you currently take any medications or recently took any. Make sure to include over-the-counter medicines, teas you drink regularly, and dietary supplements in your report — you'll most likely need to fill out a health questionnaire.

Choose Your Drip

There is a wide range of IV therapy infusions available to help with your targeted area of concern. For instance, specific treatments:

• Replenish fluids and electrolytes to help your body eliminate toxins
• Provide pain relief for minor aches and pains
• Stimulate your metabolism to help you lose weight
• Detox to undo the damage you find yourself subjected to with everyday life
• Provide a combination of vitamins to help support supple skin

You can consult with Dr. Brought and his team to see what type of infusion suits your personal needs and preferences.

What Is the IV Therapy Process?

After your history is obtained and an evaluation is complete, the nurse will likely guide you to a reclining chair. They'll have you make a tight fist while they wrap a rubber band around your arm. The best vein will be located and the nurse will disinfect the area using an alcohol pad, and then insert a needle attached to a catheter.

When you have blood work done, the nurse inserts the needle, draws blood, and then removes the needle. With an infusion, the nurse will remove and replace the needle with the catheter, which can cause a little more bleeding at the insertion site.

Once the catheter is in your vein, the infusion begins, and the nutrients make their way through the IV tube and into your body. You likely won't stay longer than 60 minutes, but the IV Therapy process can go longer or shorter depending on the number of nutrients you receive.

Use the restroom before you begin the infusion. Once you're connected to the IV, you will be advised not to move. You may wish to bring along some type of entertainment, like headphones and music that won't disturb others if you tend to get fidgety. Many individuals check their email or simply rest their eyes while receiving their nutrients. Dr. Brought and his staff can provide music, movies, or television while you relax in a comfortable atmosphere.

Should You Try IV Vitamin Therapy?

IV vitamin therapy has various uses for multiple health issues. If you can't consume enough food or you have a condition that interferes with how your body absorbs nutrients, you may be a suitable candidate for IV vitamin therapy.

When provided by a medical professional, IV therapy is a valuable option of treatment for many individuals. Regardless of the type you choose, keep in mind that it's not a cure for anything and is only a temporary solution.

Contact SPRSI for a Consultation

If you live in the Nashville or Franklin, TN area, and are curious to learn more about IV vitamin therapy or want to book a treatment option, look no further than the Southern Plastic & Reconstructive Surgical Institute. We provide our patients with a comprehensive, holistic approach and excellent patient care. Dr. Brought is a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in various reconstructive and cosmetic procedures in the greater Nashville area.

Our SPRSI team members pride themselves on its compassionate and attentive care. Dr. Brought is available most any time for his patients and doesn't use an answering service. He and his staff often accommodate evening and weekend appointments quickly. Contact SPRSI today to set up your consultation.

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