My son Kimbo mentioned this 'business' recently, and I could hardly believe what he was telling me. So as proof he sent me this photo.
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I can't actually read what it says on the poster, so I was obliged to visit their web site.
They offer two different services to the weary shopper. Firstly simple vitamin injections at a paltry £30 to £60, and secondly intravenous drips which are a tad more expensive.
For £225 you can have an IV 'anti-ageing' drip, or for the same amount of money a 'fitness' drip, or for a staggering £850 you can be IV fed with just about every vitamin known to mankind.
Whether or not these non-medical drips do any good is a matter of conjecture, but the very idea of a shopping centre offering quasi-medical procedures to increase your well-being is bizarre. The above was photographed at Westfield in London.
'More money than sense' comes to mind. Whatever next!
At first I thought "Get A Drip" was a Liz Truss campaign poster. There ought to be serious concerns about people inserting cannulas into their own arms.
ReplyDeleteI hope, at least, that the people have had some medical training.
DeleteWhat???. It's not April 1st already is it???
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe it either; but I should have known better! It's a crazy world.
DeleteThe website and reviews make it sound like a modern wellness clinic with trained staff and nurses and appointments system. Sounds ok for those who want to spend their money that way. Plenty of Chinese medical treatment clinics are already present in shopping malls. There is a demand for alternative medicines and what better commercial sense than where the people are.
ReplyDeleteMany of those Chinese Herbal medicine shops are closing down. I simply find it odd that anyone would be connected-up to an IV drip to take vitamins: especially at those prices.
DeleteYes it is odd what people will do. I'd sooner eat fruit and get some fresh air.
DeleteMy thoughts exactly.
DeleteThis is shocking. I see they use the words, booster shot, and immunity drips, tapping into covid language which has now been normalised. I see it is a franchise business, did I see it presented on Dragons Den? A news item about one of their drips being withdrawn.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48839108
I knew nothing about it until yesterday. I was quite shocked.
DeleteHeavens to Betsy. What a strange thing to and what a price. I agree with Rachel, a walk and fresh fruit and vege.
ReplyDeleteBut they obviously have customers. A new fad
A new fad which I hope will soon fade.
DeleteI hope that is not the Australian shopping centre company Westfield offering such hocus pocus. Very expensive urine full of unneeded vitamins will be flowing in the sewers of London.
ReplyDeleteI have always believed that the human body is only capable of absorbing so many vitamins; the rest are rejected. I think you are probably right.
DeleteThere's one of these near us. I thought it was only one (I've never seen anyone in tnete). I thought it was just a stupid Australian scam!.
ReplyDeleteIt just another way of emptying gullible people's pockets.
DeleteIt seems quite dubious...possibly somebody's get rich quick ploy.
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I doubt if they'll even get rich quick!
DeleteThese 'treatments' have been around for years, made popular by celebs and models in America who don't want to eat properly. I wasn't aware that they had spread over here though, outside of private health 'clinics'.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just their addition to the aisles in shopping malls that's new.
DeleteSnake oil salesmen
ReplyDeleteI think the British public need an infusion of brain cells, this new fad is absolutely ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more.
DeleteThese exist here too. My daughter told me about them. Apparently many of her fellow workers do this. She hasn't... and I'm not too sure I would either. Sounds like a California thing.
ReplyDeleteI expect the Kardashians are fans!
DeleteThey are not in my area, but I've heard of these. I don't understand the same people screaming about the covid vaccine because 'they don't know what's in it' would agree to these. Our world is nuts.
ReplyDeleteI have to have a blood test in a month's time. Even the thought of that needle etc gives me the creeps; I cannot imagine going willingly and paying for the pleasure!
DeleteSurely in most cases sensible eating does away with the need for vitamin injections and then only under the instructions of one's doctor.
ReplyDeleteAnd the body can only absorb so many vitamins at one go!
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