IV therapy ingredients · Lakewood Ranch, FL
IV Therapy Ingredients
Every ingredient we put in a drip, what it is there for, and which of our formulas contain prescription medication. No local clinic publishes this. We think that is strange.
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- Prescription content named
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Base fluids
2
Formulas with prescription content
3
Ingredient pages
7
Why We Publish This At All
Most IV therapy menus describe how a drip will make you feel and never tell you what is in it. That is backwards. You are consenting to something being infused into a vein, and the list of what that something contains is the most basic thing you are owed before you agree.
So this is the index. Every ingredient that appears in our formulas has a page explaining what it is, what it does, and what the evidence behind it actually supports. Where a drip contains a prescription medication, that is named here rather than buried in the small print.
One honest limit, stated up front: we do not publish per-drip quantities. Ingredient lists are published in full; the amounts are not, with one exception — the Detox Drip’s 2,000 mg of glutathione. If a quantity matters to you, ask before you book and we will tell you rather than guess on a web page.
Base Fluids: What Everything Else Is Mixed Into
Before any vitamin goes in, there is the fluid carrying it — and the choice between the two is a real clinical decision rather than a detail.
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Normal saline
Sodium chloride in water, the default carrier for most infusions. Straightforward, well understood, and appropriate for the majority of what we give.
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Lactated Ringer's
A balanced solution containing sodium, potassium, calcium and lactate. Closer to the composition of plasma, and preferred in some circumstances over plain saline.
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Which one, and why it matters
The difference shows up in electrolyte balance and in how the body handles a large volume. It is the kind of choice a protocol should specify rather than leave to whatever is nearest. Saline vs lactated Ringer’s covers it properly.
Mineral Ingredients
Four mineral ingredients appear across our formulas, and one is a named house blend rather than a single ingredient.
Magnesium chloride
Involved in hundreds of enzymatic reactions, muscle function and sleep. Appears in the Myers’ Cocktail and Alleviate formulas. Magnesium chloride →
Calcium gluconate
The form of calcium used intravenously, present in Myers’ and Alleviate. Calcium gluconate →
Zinc
Central to immune function; in the Immune Drip and in the Mineral Blend. Zinc →
Selenium
A trace mineral with antioxidant enzyme roles, part of the Mineral Blend. Selenium →
Mineral Blend, the house formulation
Not a loose term — a named blend of zinc, magnesium, copper, manganese and selenium. It appears in the Hangover and Hydrate drips and is also sold as a standalone injection.
Copper and manganese
Both appear inside the Mineral Blend rather than as standalone items on the menu, which is why they route here rather than to pages of their own.
What Is Actually in Each Formula
The published ingredient list for each drip, including which contain prescription medication. Ingredient amounts are not published except where noted.
Formula
Ingredients
Prescription content
Myers’ Cocktail
B-Complex (8 B vitamins) · calcium · magnesium · B12 · vitamin C
None
Hydrate
Mineral Blend (zinc, magnesium, copper, manganese, selenium)
None
Immune
B-Complex · additional B12 · high-dose vitamin C · zinc
None
Energy Boost
Amino blend · B-Complex (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12) · additional B12
None
Detox
Glutathione 2,000 mg — the one published quantity
None
Alleviate
B-Complex · calcium · magnesium · B12
Toradol (ketorolac)
Hangover
B-Complex · Mineral Blend · B12
Toradol (ketorolac) + Zofran (ondansetron)
Stomach Flu
Hydration base
Famotidine + Zofran (ondansetron)
Ingredient lists as published by Ultimate IV and Wellness. Per-drip quantities are not published, with the single exception of glutathione in the Detox Drip. Ask us for any amount that matters to your decision.
“You are consenting to something being infused into a vein. The list of what it contains is the most basic thing you are owed beforehand.”
Why this index exists
Vitamins and the Other Nutrients
The rest of the ingredients index, split by what these ingredients actually are.
Vitamins
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) appears in Myers’ and at higher concentration in the Immune Drip — Read more about vitamin C. B-Complex runs through most formulas and carries eight B vitamins including B6 (pyridoxine) and B5 (dexpanthenol). B12 is added separately on top of the complex in several drips, and is also a standalone injection.
Other nutrients
The amino acid blend in Energy Boost — Read more about the amino acid blend. Glutathione, an antioxidant given at 2,000 mg in the Detox Drip and available as an injection. And NAD+, which is significant enough to have its own service rather than sitting inside another formula.
Prescription Medications, and Why They Are Different
Three of our formulas contain prescription medication, and that changes what they are.
Toradol (ketorolac) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory given by injection. It is in the Alleviate and Hangover drips. Zofran (ondansetron) is an anti-nausea medication, present in Hangover and Stomach Flu. Famotidine, which reduces stomach acid, is in Stomach Flu.
None of those can be handed over on request. They require a prescriber, approved protocols and standing orders — which is precisely why a clinic with a named medical director can offer them and a vitamin bar cannot. It is also why the screening on those drips is genuine rather than a formality: an NSAID like ketorolac has real exclusions, including a history of GI bleeding, current NSAID or aspirin use, bleeding disorders and impaired kidney function.
If a formula on any menu contains a prescription drug and nobody screens you for it, that is the finding — not the price.
Where It All Comes From
Three questions worth asking about any list of IV therapy ingredients, including ours.
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Pharmacy-grade, not supplement-grade
Every ingredient that goes into an infusion is a pharmaceutical preparation rather than a retail supplement. The distinction is the manufacturing standard behind it and the chain of custody it arrives through.
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Compounded under standards
Sterile compounding for intravenous use is governed by published standards covering environment, technique and testing. It is the reason a drip is prepared the way it is rather than mixed on a counter.
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Traceable
Every ingredient should be traceable to where it came from. Sourcing and compounding → covers how this works in more detail.
What We Will Not Put in a Drip
A list of IV therapy ingredients is defined as much by what is absent as by what is on it.
We do not add ingredients because they are fashionable or because a competitor has started listing them. Every ingredient in every formula is there because the protocol it belongs to was reviewed and approved, and adding to it is a clinical decision rather than a marketing one.
We also do not make claims for an ingredient that its evidence does not carry. Several ingredients on this index are genuinely well established; others are supported by more modest evidence, and the individual pages say which is which rather than flattening them into one confident paragraph.
That is the whole reason this index exists as pages rather than as a bullet list.
Two Ingredients Worth Knowing About Before You Choose
Two ingredients that come up often and are frequently misunderstood.
High-dose vitamin C
Vitamin C at infusion concentrations behaves differently from a tablet, which is the reason it is given this way at all. It also has genuine screening considerations rather than being universally suitable, which is why it has its own page instead of a line on a menu.
Glutathione
An antioxidant produced naturally in the body and given at 2,000 mg in our Detox Drip. It is widely marketed for effects beyond its antioxidant role; we describe what it is and what it is given for, and leave the rest alone.
Custom Formulations
Custom drips are a common request, and the honest answer has two parts.
What can be adjusted sits inside an approved protocol — which formula suits you, whether an add-on is appropriate, and what should be left out given your history. That conversation happens at screening and it is a real one.
What cannot happen is an ingredient being added to a bag because it was requested. Anything outside an approved protocol goes to the medical director rather than being improvised at the chair, and sometimes the answer is no. A clinic where any combination can be assembled on request is not being flexible; it is operating without protocols. For the fuller decision framework — including when the standard Myers’ Cocktail is the better choice — see Myers’ Cocktail vs a custom drip →.
Every Formula Approved Before It Is Offered
No IV therapy ingredient reaches this index without appearing in a formula our director reviewed and approved, and the three formulas carrying prescription medication exist only because there is a physician and standing orders behind them.
Screening against those protocols is done by a registered nurse before anything is prepared, and declining on screening grounds is a normal outcome rather than an exception.
Medical director: Dr Stephen Jones — board-certified general surgeon since 2016, Northeast Ohio Medical University. Founder and lead nurse: Erica Barshay, RN BSN.
What Formulas Cost
Individual ingredients are not priced separately — you are choosing a formula, and the published menu lists what each one costs.
Standalone injections of several of these compounds are also on the menu, which is often the more sensible option when you want one thing rather than a full bag.
IV Therapy Ingredients: Common Questions
It depends on the formula. The ingredients are a base fluid — normal saline or lactated Ringer’s — plus some combination of B-Complex, B12, vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, zinc, selenium, an amino acid blend, glutathione or NAD+. Three formulas also contain prescription medication, named on this page.
We publish full ingredient lists but not per-drip quantities, with one exception — glutathione at 2,000 mg in the Detox Drip. If an amount matters to your decision, ask us and we will tell you rather than publish a number we cannot stand behind.
Yes. What is infused is a pharmaceutical preparation rather than a retail supplement, prepared for intravenous use under sterile compounding standards.
Three. Alleviate contains Toradol (ketorolac). Hangover contains Toradol and Zofran (ondansetron). Stomach Flu contains Famotidine and Zofran. All three require a prescriber, approved protocols and standing orders, and all three carry real screening.
Because ketorolac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory with genuine exclusions — a history of gastrointestinal bleeding, current NSAID or aspirin use, bleeding disorders and impaired kidney function among them. It is a prescription drug rather than a vitamin, and it is screened accordingly.
You can discuss what suits you, and what is left out is often the more important part of that conversation. What cannot happen is adding a compound outside an approved protocol on request — that goes to the medical director, and the answer is sometimes no.
From pharmaceutical sources, prepared under sterile compounding standards for intravenous use. Our sourcing and compounding page covers how that works in detail.
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Treatments provided by Ultimate IV and Wellness · 7262 55th Avenue E, Bradenton, FL 34203