The expert warned by saying ‘it has become fashionable’! There is an urgent need to have serum applied at the hairdresser – Last Minute Türkiye, Life News

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Out-of-hospital serum applications, which are advertised on social media with concepts such as atoms and vitamin cocktails, and are performed without the supervision of a doctor, with the dream of rejuvenating, being vigorous, and getting up as soon as possible after diseases such as flu or cold, are life-threatening. Intravenous applications, often done in ‘cocktail’ form, include glutathione, high dose vitamin C, vitamin B, painkillers, and antibiotics that the doctor actually needs to prescribe; It can cause allergic shocks and even cardiac arrest.

If the person is not in a hospital environment, intervention may be too late. The ‘serum craze’, which has become fashionable with the influence of phenomena and influencers on the internet and social media, can only be seen in health cabins under the supervision of nurses; It can be delivered to homes and can be done in the patient’s home lounge, in yoga-pilates salons, or even in hairdressers-beauty centers. Turkish Emergency Medicine Association Ultrasonography Working Group Chairman and Emergency Medicine Specialist Assoc. Dr. Özlem Dikme made important statements to Demirören News Agency, drawing attention to the dangers of intravenous drug applications, which should be done under the supervision of a doctor and in a hospital environment, being carried to channels that have nothing to do with health.

“IT’S GOT SO CRAZY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO YOGA AND GETTING SERUM INSERT”

Assoc. Dr. Dikme said, “We started to see a lot of injections, especially by non-physicians, in health booths and places without medical equipment, sometimes unnecessarily. As a result, many cases come to emergency departments. Especially in the winter months, such methods are used due to the increase in flu infections and the desire to have a better recovery period after the disease. Many influencers share posts about this on social media. In a trend, treatments such as yellow serum, vitamin serum and atomic serum are offered. Recently, this situation has gone so out of control that there have even been cases coming from beauty centers and hair salons. We witness that serum is made to strengthen immunity as an additional treatment in the centers where they go for yoga and pilates training. Home services are provided, we see it on social media as well. “People who have had intravenous access are sharing mixtures called ‘Vitamin C atom serum’ in the garden of their homes,” he said.

“THERE ARE SOMEONE IN INTENSIVE CARE WITH ALLERGIC REACTION”

Assoc. Prof. pointed out that such injections are very dangerous outside the hospital environment. Dr. Dikme said, “These ingredients in the serum are applied without adjusting the dose according to age or weight. People find themselves in need of emergency interventions due to rapidly developing allergic reactions. We may encounter very serious situations that may even result in death. In this way, we started to see that there was an increase in cases applying to emergency departments and patients going to intensive care. “Sudden allergic reactions can cause shortness of breath, respiratory failure, or even cardiac arrest,” he said. Pointing out that there are high doses of vitamin C and B complexes in the serums known as ‘atom’ given intravenously, Assoc. He also stated that he threw it away immediately and said that, in fact, the body was given unnecessarily too much load.

“HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SAVED IF HIS NEIGHBOR WAS NOT A DOCTOR”

Assoc. Prof. also explained that fatal allergic reactions may develop hours after the serum is applied. Dr. Dikme explained that such a patient was saved from death by chance in the past weeks and gave the following information: “Delayed allergic reactions may develop. For example, the patient may deteriorate with a secondary phase allergic reaction one hour or two hours after the drug is administered. For example, a similar incident occurred recently. A patient receives such treatment in the health cabin and goes home. It gets worse after about an hour. Luckily, his neighbor is a doctor and someone who keeps an adrenaline injection with him. He intervenes immediately and then the patient is taken to the hospital with heart massage. The patient remains in intensive care for a long time. “We started to encounter such patients a lot.”

“THE BELIEF THAT I CAN STAND UP WITH A SERUM IS WRONG”

Assoc. Prof. also pointed out that the people who think that they will get back on their feet with a serum are mostly the middle age and working population. Dr. Dikme emphasized that although there is a momentary feeling of well-being after the serum, this effect is not real and continued: “People want to return to their social or business life as soon as possible. However, allergies to medications can occur at any age, perhaps even at the lowest dose, depending on a medication that is used regularly. They had had an IV instilled in the hospital once before, so it is very wrong to think that now I can have it done at home. “Any serum treatment must be applied in a fully equipped hospital environment.”

Recently, skin beauty, rejuvenation etc. Underlining that intravenous glutathione applications have become fashionable with promises, Assoc. Dr. Dikme said that this does not actually have an effect as expected, on the contrary, it may put additional burden on the liver and kidneys. Assoc. Dr. Dikme concluded his words as follows: “Glutathione is a molecule that is broken down very quickly and eliminated from the body quickly. Deficiency is actually very rare. This is offered under the name of immune system strengthening and anti-aging applications. But externally administered glutathione produces different breakdown metabolites than the body’s naturally produced glutathione. All of these metabolites impose secondary burdens on both the liver and kidney. In addition, the preservatives in the intravenous drug administered and other substances in the administered liquid increase the risk of allergic reactions. Giving all vitamins together in a complex form and in maximum doses, perhaps the required dose is much lower, actually causes an excessive burden on the body. When these substances given with serum are taken orally, if the person has a healthy digestive system, for example, vitamin C, the body absorbs the amount of deficiency and maintains its own balance. However, when given IV, that is, intravenously, a large dose at a time passes into the blood immediately within 1-2 minutes, so the metabolism exposed to a faster and higher amount may develop a more serious reaction.

HE PUT ON THE SERUM HE MADE HIMSELF AND SAVED HIS DEATH

Erhan Yıldız, a healthcare worker living in Diyarbakır, went into anaphylactic shock (a fatal allergy situation) after ‘self-preparing and applying serum’ with the idea of ​​getting up as soon as possible during a flu infection he experienced last week. Yıldız, who was brought back to life at the last minute with the intervention of doctors despite being in a hospital environment, said, “I prepared a serum for myself. But the serum is not as innocent as it seems. It instantly caused me to go into rapid anaphylaxis. Suddenly, I started to burn and bruise all over. I was lucky, I was in a hospital environment and the doctors intervened immediately. It is very dangerous and very risky to have the serum done outside the hospital. We see that it is done everywhere now, in health cabins, at home, etc. However, it can be fatal at any time. “You may suddenly be face to face with death, you may die,” he said.