Comment on Intravenous Vitamin Mix Bar Alleviate Stress, Aging NO NO NO Benefits offset by toxic plastic byproducts in the bag and tubing. Called thalates, they can cause many unpleasant side effects. Vitamins good, thalates bad.

Saline solution??? how about a Beer IV?? In order to get wasted under $20

Yes, let's emulate a fictional pill-popping misogynistic misanthrope.

Unfortunately, we are not all gifted diagnosticians with a team of writers to give us witty rejoinders or set decorators to give our homes a tasteful level of disheveledness or makeup artists to give us that right level of stubble or wardrobe artists to give us the aged slacker chic look.

And I suspect none of us have that Lou Reed-esque old punk look or the ability to fall back on a bitchin' English accent.

My recommendation, stick to the tried and true hangover remedies of prophylactic hydration, analgesics, and antiemetics.

@jcrockerman: Or at least, the cafe should be licensed to serve alcohol as well, so you could dehydrate and replenish at the same time. Be more efficient.

@OMG! Ponies!:

Ahahahaha. So true.

Wait, wha-?

Placenta pack via IV?!? As if. Nothing tastes better than a rare placenta with an extra side of amniotic fluid.

Leave it to the Japanese to find an expensive replacement to oral rehydration... First oxygen bars, now this??

Also, very poor body substance isolation procedures... No gloves during an IV? You're just waiting to get a blood borne pathogen.

I have a drug that cures everything: Pla-Cebo!

@OMG! Ponies!: The British accent is the real one. That's probably what you meant, but for those not so informed...

@=opportunityfanboy: I prefer placenta tar-tar myself. I began to prefer it soon after birth.

In college I once came down with the flu during finals. The doc at the campus clinic gave me a saline IV and 8 hours later all the symptoms were gone.

Blegh, I'll wait longer to try any wild pick-me-ups, they killed it at the word "intravenous", since I'm so bloody (no pun intended) squeamish and don't want to get a needle stuck in me to feel better.
Whatever happened to that high-speed vaccine injector? Modify that, hook it up to that pouch, and I'd be content.

@buckminster: Blah, that's what I need right now.

This isn't a noble effort for "preventive medicine" this is for people who feel crappy for other reasons after the fact. It's a money maker and don't believe for a second that this is preventative. Eating vegetables and not drinking too much prevents you from feeling like crap ahead of time.

Just the thought of needing a commercial IV drip to feel better sets off alarm bells.

If you want to "raise their awareness of daily health management on their own." you do it by eating right an exercise and not going for an IV drip after you feel bad.

For someone in the medical community, they could at least be honest about what they are doing, but they are not.

I'd want one just to keep me hydrated during the day while I work. I hate drinking 1+ gallons of water a day, I always forget to either drink enough or not enough. Make the IV drip portable, that would be the sh$t