Okanagan Natural Medicine offers Nutritional I.V. (intravenous) Therapy in a comfortable, relaxing atmosphere while patients read, listen to music, or rest. Certainly the very notion of I.V. therapy conjures up images of hospitals and acute medicine settings. However, Naturopathic Physicians and other complementary care practitioners have been using nutritional I.V. therapy for many years as a way of introducing nutrients and therapeutic agents directly into the blood stream in an effort to correct deficiencies, enhance immune system function, increase energy, and assist in maintaining health.

I.V. Therapy can play a role in advancing patients toward optimal health because vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other natural agents utilized bypass the digestive system, are infused in high concentrations, and optimally nourish the body’s cells and tissues. A simple way of saying this is that I.V.’s go right to the source as they bypass many of the inadequacies and malfunctions inside the body to work on problems fast, becoming a very efficient method for treating nutritional shortcomings.

I.V. therapy is often used to support a person with chronic or severe illness, those undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments as well as those with chronic fatigue. We also formulate protocols specific to health challenges (Parkinson's, chronic fatigue) or health goals (detoxification); patients include athletes wishing to maximize endurance, exhausted administrators and students, those with digestive disorders or those simply wishing to enhance energy levels.

Some conditions treated with I.V. Therapy: