IV Kits and Fluids.
- Thread starter AndyPanda
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I’ve seen them on some bodybuilder websites, but they are super pricey. I am convinced these “shortages” are made up.
How strategic of us to have 60% of essential medical supplies manufactured in one place. SMH
raw_oyster_eater
Senior Member
are you going to try and do your own IV? i asked this months ago and got trashed. I thought i recalled seeing bags for like 100 bucks. for a liter of water. insanity.
raw_oyster_eater
Senior Member
damn, not as bad as you just burned me.
Kaybrewski
New_Member
I can assure you these shortages are NOT made up. I work in the OR and since the shortages began (around 2022) I have started a couple cases with only <10 liters in the warmer, which isn't much for something like a septic abdomen. My hospital sends out daily updates on our fluids stock too. That being said you still could probably find someone who works at a hospital/ medical facility of sorts who'd be willing to help you out.
Yes. I have done them on myself in the past. When I was in the military we would give them to ourselves all the time after long missions. I was trained as a Combat Lifesaver and we would do one bag of sodium chloride and one banana bag, sleep for like 12 hours and wake up completely refreshed.
I am seeing sodium chloride and lactaid ringers on Indiamart pretty cheap, but trying to find a reasonable MOQ is hard. I want to drip glutathione and NAD+ and possibly ASTYMIN-3 and Vitamin C.
Are they using fluids past the expiration date? If so, how far past the date are they actually good to use. On a side note, I wonder how the med spas are able to get so much.
raw_oyster_eater
Senior Member
i've been saving my empty bags i used on the cats. i wonder if its possible to flush them with water and alcohol then make a custom solution.
jdaniel30
New_Member
The oyster is becoming my spirit animal.
Windingroads06
Less is More
Ah, the days of ironing BDUs on a balmy Sunday evening after abusing legal drugs from the class six and playing volleyball on the beach all weekend. A liter of nss and a banana bag was just the thing to make Monday morning pt not so bad.!
Though the 18g hurt a little going in.Be safe out there!
The number of times I used to watch the EMT's show up for work a few hours early hungover as shit to give themselves an IV before work.... I can't imagine that's happening right now.Ah, the days of ironing BDUs on a balmy Sunday evening after abusing legal drugs from the class six and playing volleyball on the beach all weekend. A liter of nss and a banana bag was just the thing to make Monday morning pt not so bad.!
Be safe out there!
Kaybrewski
New_Member
Not really, since there is a shortage and fluids are a hot commodity they usually get used up well before their expiration date. However being in veterinary medicine, we do some "sketchy" things. I do work in surgery and the surgeons will use expired stents/coils/ameroids/anything if the packaging is intact and undamaged. When I was a baby in the field I do remember giving sterile water injections from bottles opened definitely not on that day. Which I would never do to a patient now simply because I am a believer in best medicine practices.
That being said I would give myself expired fluids if they were stored correctly throughout their life.
On the med spa front a theory I have is: they are also conserving fluids like we are, they also probably don't go through fluids like a hospital does. There are also different types of fluids they could be using they may be switching them up too by what's available.
