Does a vitamin IV help when you are sick? That's really two questions, and they get two different answers. If you're losing fluid faster than you can get it down, a bag catches you up, and that's most of what we run for sick Tulsa clients in October. If you're hoping the vitamins shorten the illness itself, the evidence is thin, and we'd rather tell you that now than after you've paid.
We list our sources at the bottom so you can check us.
Something goes around here every fall and the bookings follow it. MedlinePlus puts the frequency in perspective: Adults have an average of 2-3 colds per year, and children have even more. It also marks the stretch we watch on the calendar: Colds are more common in the winter and spring, but you can get them at any time. So nothing unusual is happening to you. Half of Green Country feels the same way this week.
Being sick drains water in ways an ordinary day doesn't. A fever will do it. So will a stomach bug, or two days of barely drinking anything, and the federal page on dehydration describes the hole you dig: It happens when you are losing more fluids than you are taking in, and your body does not have enough fluids to work properly. The page says it plain. Get extra fluids when you are sick. Electrolytes go missing alongside the water, and the same page says what they're doing in there: They have many important jobs, including helping to keep a balance of fluids in your body. That's why a nurse carries a bag of saline instead of a jug of water, and we went further into that comparison in our piece on an IV against a glass of water.
Simply Hydrate is $99, all in. One liter, nothing stirred into it. If you can't hold down a sip, that bag by itself is usually the whole visit.
This is the part the ads leave out. The National Library of Medicine's vitamin C entry grants the reputation first: For many years, vitamin C has been a popular household remedy for the common cold. Then it answers your question without hedging: Taking a vitamin C supplement after a cold starts does not appear to be helpful.
It does leave a narrow opening: However, people who take vitamin C supplements regularly might have slightly shorter colds or somewhat milder symptoms. Regularly, slightly, might. That's a daily habit, not a bag you book on your worst morning. The studies behind it measured vitamin C swallowed, too, and nobody's shown that running the same vitamin through a vein rewrites the finding, so we won't claim it does. What the page recommends instead is dinner: It is therefore important to include plenty of vitamin C-containing foods in your daily diet.
So what's the vitamin content doing? It's nutrition that doesn't have to survive a stomach throwing everything back. Super Immunity is $199, all in, and it rides on the same liter of saline as the rest of the menu. The fluid is the part you'll feel. What sits above it tops off nutrients during a week you've barely eaten, and it isn't an antiviral.
We've got no business claiming to shorten a cold. MedlinePlus leaves no room on it: There is no cure for the common cold. It gives you the real timeline: Most people who have a cold will feel better after a week or two. And it shuts the door on the shortcut we get asked about most: Antibiotics will not help with a cold.
Flu is its own conversation. On flu the federal page starts easy: Most people with the flu recover on their own without medical care. Then it names the people who should call a doctor rather than us: But if you have symptoms of flu and are in a high risk group or are very sick or worried about your illness, contact your health care provider. Antiviral medicine runs on a clock, too, since They usually work best when you start taking them within 2 days of getting sick. A liter of fluid buys you none of that window back. A physician reads your order before a nurse opens a kit, and some of those come back a no; our safety standards page lists the rest of where we stop.
Then there's the version of this that isn't ours at all. Confusion, fainting, no urine, a racing heart, fast breathing. Any of those and you want an ER tonight, not a nurse at your door. That's the dehydration page's own list: Get medical help right away if the symptoms also include: Confusion Fainting Lack of urination Rapid heartbeat Rapid breathing Shock
You stay where you are and we come to you. Across the metro a nurse can usually be at your door inside an hour of a confirmed booking, which is the real reason people book sick instead of driving somewhere with a fever. Figure about an hour once she's there. Everything she brings is sterile and sealed. Single use, unwrapped in front of you rather than somewhere down the hall. A $25 injection can go in while the bag runs if you want one. What the menu says is what you pay, no surprise fees at the door.
Flat menu pricing covers Tulsa and Owasso, plus Broken Arrow, Jenks, Bixby, Collinsville, Claremore. A flat $25 for the drive gets added on for Sand Springs and Sapulpa. Our FAQ walks a visit through start to finish. And if it's the hangover version of this question you came for rather than the viral one, that's our Myers' cocktail post.
This page is general education and not medical advice about your particular illness. Whoever holds your chart knows things about you that we don't, so run anything here past them, and go to them first if you're sliding backwards instead of improving.
MedlinePlus: Dehydration, government health agency, run by the National Library of Medicine, its patient page about losing fluid
MedlinePlus: Vitamin C, government health agency, the encyclopedia entry that library keeps on vitamin C
MedlinePlus: Common Cold, government health agency, its patient page about colds
MedlinePlus: Flu, government health agency, its patient page about influenza
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