Do vitamin drips actually work?

Intravenous vitamin drips are predicted to enjoy a surge this festive season. But what are they – and are there real health benefits? Forget simply turning down your third cocktail or drinking water after each whisky: this year’s favoured hangover cure is an intravenous vitamin drip. Already popular in the United States, vitamin IV drips are gaining popularity around the world – not only as a tonic to remedy the excesses of the night before, but also as a supposed cure for brain fog and exhaustion or as a quick boost to the immune system.

So does injecting a stream of vitamins directly into your arm once a fortnight really do much for your health – or, at least, help to keep the party alive? We asked the experts. What is a vitamin drip? Vitamin drips are a way of delivering a vitamin to someone straight into their bloodstream by IV. The equipment involved is a bag of saline solution with added vitamins that’s inserted into your arm via a cannula, by a trained professional.



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