Most people avoid what they don't understand — and that is the sensible thing to do. So let's start with the basics: what it actually is, why it is given into a vein, who it makes sense for and who it doesn't. And also what it does not do.
Intravenous therapy is a route of administration. Substances your body uses every day — vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fluids — are introduced into the circulation in a controlled way and under medical supervision.
It is the same route any hospital uses to hydrate or replenish a patient. Nothing exotic, nothing new.
What changes at OASE is that the composition is decided after a medical assessment and your blood test — it is not chosen from a menu.
Your gut is not an open door: it is a filter. The absorption of many nutrients saturates — beyond a certain amount, taking more does not mean more reaches you, it means you excrete more. With vitamin C this is documented precisely: taken orally, the concentration in blood has a ceiling that is not exceeded however far you push the dose.
The intravenous route bypasses that filter.
Padayatty et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004 — vitamin C pharmacokinetics.
What that means, and what it doesn't. It means more of it reaches you, and that has been measured. It does not mean it works better for everyone, nor that it replaces anything. It means that when there is something to replenish, the intravenous route replenishes it in a way the oral route cannot reach.
So the useful question is not how much do I take? but how much is actually reaching me? And that can only be known by measuring.
It is not a treatment for everyone, and we would rather tell you that before you book.
When there is a demonstrated deficiency, when absorption may be compromised, or simply when you would rather start from data than from assumptions.
Or it requires special precautions: heart or kidney failure, certain metabolic or enzyme disorders, pregnancy, or medication that could interact.
Some of those conditions cause no symptoms. That is why the medical assessment is not a commercial formality: it is what allows them to be ruled out.
And yes: fairly often, the honest conclusion of an assessment is that you don't need anything. We will tell you that too.
It is a tool: measurable, with specific indications and with limits. Not a solution for everything.
Medical history, medication and background before anything is decided.
The composition comes from your data. No fixed menus.
Not only at the start. Single-use materials and pharmaceutical-grade formulations.
Before any treatment you will sign an informed consent form setting out in detail the risks and contraindications that apply to your particular case. You can withdraw it at any time.
Worried about the needle? We talk about it here: Does it hurt? The honest answer.
We talk, we go through your history and your blood work, and we decide together what makes sense for you. Or whether nothing is needed at all.