All site navigation as a Select menu Print FriendlyIntravenous Vitamin Injections | Cosmos Clinic Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide & Gold Coast Recovering from illness or just feeling rundown? A Vitamin Injection can speed the healing process and boost your immune system…. Some quick facts about IV Vitamins We inject a powerful vitamin cocktail directly into your blood stream through a cannula. Vitamins are used to boost the immune system. They help the body to recover from inflammations, infections, thrombosis, fatigue and post surgical healing. It can be done as a sole procedure or during the recovery period after a liposuction procedure. Patients can resume immediately normal activities. Cost varies between $120 and $500 depending on your needs. What are the benefits of Vitamin Infusions? Vitamin Infusions are a powerful immune system booster with anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-histamine properties. Vitamins helps the body recover from inflammation, thrombosis, infection, fatigue and with post surgical healing.
They play a role in heart and brain functions as well as our bodies immune system. Increasing your vitamin intake by eating more of certain foods or by taking oral supplements can lead to a healthier lifestyle, however not all of the required vitamins and minerals actually penetrate into the blood. More importantly there may not be enough of the essential nutrients that are needed during illness, high stress or for a person who is recovering post surgery. A Vitamin Injection can go directly into your blood stream where all of the nutrients can be readily absorbed by your body to speed up the healing process. During the recovery period from a liposuction procedure at Cosmos Clinic, we can provide our patients with the extra Vitamin C and additional nutrients their bodies need to speed up the healing process. How does Intravenous Vitamin Therapy work? The powerful cocktail of recovery vitamins are delivered straight into your blood stream using the Intravenous Therapy (IV) delivery method.
There is no downtime and you are able to resume your normal activities right away. Which Vitamins are included in the drip? At Cosmos Clinic we source our intravenous vitamins injectables from Biological Therapies; an Australian owned company fully licenced with the TGA (Australian Goods Administration) to manufacture and provide a comprehensive range of the highest quality sterile injectable products. We are able to tailor your treatment to meet your individual your needs and can offer a wide range of vitamin combinations including the following cocktails: Vitamin C (15-30g) – Useful for repair of tissue and boosts the immune system Vitamin B + Vitamin B12 – Useful to boost energy Strong Antioxidant– Powerful antioxidant Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) – Great liver detoxifier Vitamin D3 – Given once a year for healthy cell repair How do you feel after an intravenous drip? You may feel a warm feeling throughout your body as you have the intravenous drip.
Some people may develop flu-like systems for a few hours after the treatment. Are Vitamin Injections popular? Intravenous Vitamin Therapy is fast becoming one of the biggest health trends in both the celebrity and main stream worlds. The desire to live the healthiest life possible has lead to everyone from The Real Housewives, Madonna, Rhianna, Cindy Crawford and Simon Cowell to reveal they use vitamin infusion injections to maintain their a-list looks and the hectic demands of being a celebrity. Read more on celebrity vitamin infusion here. How much does an Intravenous Vitamin Infusion cost? The cost will vary from $120 to $500 depending on your needs. Intravenous Vitamin Therapy locations Our Intravenous Vitamin Injections are available at our cosmetic clinics in Double Bay – Sydney, Benowa – Gold Coast, Deakin – Canberra and North Adelaide – Adelaide. For more information please contact us today!Too much vitamin B12 may promote acne, according to a new study.
The study found that, in the presence of vitamin B12, the skin bacteria that are commonly linked to acne start pumping out inflammatory molecules known to promote pimples. In the study, scientists investigated the differences between skin bacteria from people prone to acne and bacteria from people with clear-skinned faces. The researchers looked at the bacteria's gene expression, hoping to figure out why Propionibacterium acnes, which is the most common skin microbe, causes pimples in some people but not in others. They found that vitamin B12 changed the gene expression of the skin bacteria, which could have led to acne-promoting inflammation. In humans, vitamin B12 plays roles in metabolism, red blood cell formation and the maintenance of the central nervous system. It's commonly found in multivitamins, but the new research could raise questions about whether people with acne should take vitamin B12 supplements. "I think there's a link" between vitamin B12 and acne, said Huiying Li, a co-author of the new study and an assistant professor of pharmacology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.
Her team found a molecular pathway that could explain the link in their study, but it will need to be confirmed by future research."There's still a lot to be studied in order to really understand if B12 causes acne," she said. By looking at the gene expression patterns, Li's team first found that the pathway that produces vitamin B12 was significantly altered in the skin bacteria of people with acne, compared with the skin bacteria of people without acne. This finding raised Li's suspicions about B12's role in acne, she said. Prior studies citing an association between these two elements confirmed the possibility of a link — research dating back to the 1950s has suggested that vitamin B12 supplements could contribute to some people's acne. Li's research team then looked at the skin bacterium in pimple-free people who received a vitamin B12 injection. The researchers confirmed that the B12 supplement repressed the expression of genes in P. acnes involved in synthesizing the vitamin.
In fact, the expression of those genes was lowered to levels similar to those of acne patients. [4 Common Skin Woes, and How to Fix Them] A week after receiving the vitamin B12 injection, one of the 10 participants broke out in pimples. That person's P. acnes gene-expression pattern also changed, the researchers found. Before the B12 injection, it was similar to those of the other healthy participants, but 14 days after the vitamin B12 shot, it looked much more like an acne patient's pattern. The researchers also did experiments on P. acnes growing in lab dishes.They found that when they added vitamin B12 to the bacteria, the microbes started producing compounds called porphyrins, which promote inflammation in acne. Inflammation is a key step in the later stages of acne development, Li said. Together, the new findings suggest that when too much B12 is present, the bacteria have changes in their gene expression that suppress further synthesis of the vitamin. These bacteria switch to producing porphyrins, the researchers explained, and in some people, this uptick in inflammatory compounds may contribute to acne.
"We think the pathway we studied could potentially explain part of acne's pathogenesis," Li said. Hang on to those vitamins But although the study found a possible link, it did not prove that too much vitamin B12 definitely causes or worsens acne. "The data and hypothesis are very intriguing, but much additional investigation is required to determine if this is a real cause-and-effect phenomenon," said Josh Miller, a professor of nutritional sciences at Rutgers University who was not involved with the study. In addition, although the new findings suggest that B12 supplements may promote inflammation, other studies have suggested the opposite — that vitamin B12 has anti-inflammatory properties, Miller said. "Proof of a causative effect of B12 supplements on acne development will require randomized control trials with enough subjects to see a significant effect, if one exists," he told Live Science. Li also cautioned that it's way too early to suggest that people dealing with acne should stop taking multivitamins with B12.
Most of the studies that have found an increase in acne with vitamin B12 involved large doses of the vitamin, given by injections, she pointed out. "This study does present some compelling evidence suggesting that supplementation with B12 can cause or exacerbate acne in a subset of individuals," said Dr. Whitney Bowe, clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. "However, we don't have enough evidence at this point to broadly recommend that all acne patients try to avoid vitamin B12 supplements or foods rich in vitamin B12." The aim of the research was to better understand how humans, and the microbes that live on their bodies, interact to cause disease, Li said. A deeper understanding of microbial-disease pathways could lead to more targeted treatments, the researchers wrote in their study, published today (June 24) in the journal Science Translational Medicine. "The study shows that "what we eat or drink can impact the health of our skin by affecting the microbes that live on our skin," Bowe said. "