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!
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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.
I hope, at least, that the people have had some medical training.
What???. It's not April 1st already is it???
I couldn't believe it either; but I should have known better! It's a crazy world.
The 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.
Many 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.
Yes it is odd what people will do. I'd sooner eat fruit and get some fresh air.
This 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 A news item about one of their drips being withdrawn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48839108
Heavens to Betsy. What a strange thing to and what a price. I agree with Rachel, a walk and fresh fruit and vege.
But they obviously have customers. A new fad
My thoughts exactly.
I knew nothing about it until yesterday. I was quite shocked.
A new fad which I hope will soon fade.
I 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.
There'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!.
It seems quite dubious...possibly somebody's get rich quick ploy.
These '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'.
Snake oil salesmen
I think the British public need an infusion of brain cells, this new fad is absolutely ridiculous!
I 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.
It just another way of emptying gullible people's pockets.
Somehow, I doubt if they'll even get rich quick!
Maybe it's just their addition to the aisles in shopping malls that's new.
I couldn't agree more.
These 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.
They 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.
I expect the Kardashians are fans!
I 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!
Surely in most cases sensible eating does away with the need for vitamin injections and then only under the instructions of one's doctor.
And the body can only absorb so many vitamins at one go!
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