There’s a growing trend in the nursing community that revolves around IV Therapy, the procedure used for treating a wide variety of conditions. While this procedure is already used to provide a way to administer medication to the patient directly through an intravenous line, there is a growing interest of celebrities towards this type of therapy because it can be used effectively for “basically everything.”

From beauty procedures to treating the common cold and even hangovers, IV therapy is touted as one of the best inventions since sliced bread, which is great for medical entrepreneurs and other parties looking to branch out into other fields.

The growing popularity of IV therapy as a method to treat basically everything has led to nurses and doctors turning a new leaf and switching to administering IV vitamin therapy to interested parties straight at their home, office, or in their hotel rooms. Similarly, there has been an influx of companies that revolve around this treatment, and that are continually hiring nurses and doctors to fulfill the growing demand for it.

The argument for this growing trend among celebrities is that the absorption rate for vitamins taken orally is only about 50 to 60%. However, when these substances are administered directly into the bloodstream, the absorption rate increases to a solid 100%. In this sense, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and other substances are replenished instantly, and the effects are felt in as little as minutes after the session has ended.

Drip Doctors is one of these clinics that specializes in providing IV therapy services in both walk-in and home-call fashion. Teal Renee is a nurse working for Drip Doctors in Los Angeles, where there are three “regenerative centers”, as they call themselves. The folks at nurse.org sat down with Renee, who shared all the details and nitty-gritty about the company, and how the daily life working at one of these centers looks like.

Renee began her career as a nurse working in a cardiac telemetry unit for a year before transitioning into the ICU. She spent another year in the cardiac ICU before realizing that she wasn’t suited to working in one place, and took off as a traveling nurse. Her journey took her to the city of Los Angeles, where she continued working as a nurse in the ICU, dealing with critically-ill patients and monitoring vasoactive drips to keep them alive. The stakes for her were high, and so was the pressure, which is why she began looking for a part-time nursing gig in a more lenient environment. Nevertheless, with her background, she was most suited to always working in the ICU and other places where she could only monitor IV lines in emergency patients. That is, until she found Drip Doctors.

She had been googling medical spas and other places where she could still practice her trade but in a calmer environment. Her search brought up several options, among which Drip Doctors stood out. After applying, she landed the gig, and now works as an IV therapy nurse where she administers substances intravenously to her patients. “As an IV vitamin therapy nurse, I infuse IV vitamins intravenously, similar to ‘banana bags.’ The goal of IV vitamin infusions are to restore, hydrate, and replenish the body,” she says.

Now, instead of handling patients that are struggling to come back from near-death experiences, she also treats healthy patients that seek preventive care, or a simple respite from the daily grind. “I work generally with patients who overall healthy, as we do not provide urgent care needs,” she says. Her usual patients feel fatigued, or dehydrated, and want a pick-me-up in the form of IV therapy. However, curiously enough, there is a type of patient in these clinics that stand out among the rest; not because of their personal appearance or circumstances, but rather from the condition they are looking to treat: Hangovers.

That’s right, IV therapy treatment for hangovers is a growing trend among those who partake of these treatments as, through an IV line, it is possible to administer every single vitamin, nutrient, mineral, and medication necessary to reduce the pain and discomfort caused by a hangover.

According to Drip Hydration, another IV therapy facilitator, a typical hangover treatment includes vitamins like B and B12, as well as anti-nausea, and anti-inflammatory medication. An article on their website about the hangover remedy says that “there are three main components of recovering from a hangover. Rehydrating your body is the most important step in recovering from a hangover. To further accelerate recovery, detoxing removes the buildup of toxins caused by alcohol consumption. Lastly, it’s important to restore nutrients lost while drinking.” All of this can be achieved in full, and in record time, through drip therapy.

Even after a night of heavy drinking with friends and family, you can get up to shape and feel like new after a few minutes with IV therapy.