2024-01-29 18:18:53
Four professional orders are calling on their members to stop administering vitamins intravenously to their clients unnecessarily, TVA Nouvelles has learned. This fashion has gained momentum with social networks and worries health professionals.
American stars, such as the Kardashians, show themselves with IV fluids on their arms, looking “glamorous”. In Quebec, host Benoit Gagnon films his IV on his arm and writes: “I decided to invest in my health.” Former football player and entrepreneur Étienne Boulay testifies for a holistic health company that offers this service.
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In private health or aesthetic clinics in Greater Montreal, these vitamin, mineral and other substance therapies are promised to reduce stress, lose weight, increase energy levels and strengthen the immune system.
However, there is no scientific proof of these benefits which denounce with one voice the College of Physicians, the Order of Nurses of Quebec, the Order of Pharmacists of Quebec and the Order of Nutritionists-Dietitians of Quebec. In a note addressed to their members, obtained by TVA Nouvelles, these professional orders demand that these health professionals respect their ethical obligations in connection with these infusions.
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“We discourage the use of IV vitamin therapy in patients who do not have a diagnosed health problem. We invite all professionals involved in such service offerings to review this involvement in light of their ethical obligations,” we read in this note.
Intravenous administration carries risks, they say. “For example, a man unfortunately died from a blood infection (sepsis) following intravenous vitamin treatment by a Montreal naturopath, because one of the vials used was contaminated with deadly bacteria” , we can read in a notice to the population which will be made available in the coming days.
In an advisory issued to their professionals, the four orders remind us to always favor the oral route.
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“I see that there is a fashion and there are influencers. But clearly no scientific data supports this type of therapy in a healthy person using this type of supplement. It really seems to me to be an expensive scam,” underlines the family doctor, Benoit Heppell.
The president of the Order of Nutritionists-Dietitists of Quebec agrees.
“There are no proven benefits, but there are known risks,” insists the president, Joëlle Emond.
The origin of these vitamin and mineral infusions is also an issue, since they do not have a drug identification number (DIN) issued by Health Canada.
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