QUESTION: Can I just put glutathione in a Vit-Min IV bag with the rest of the nutrients?
ANSWER: The point with infusing glutathione (GSH) is to preserve the reduced glutathione (GSH) you paid the pharmacy to make until it gets into the patients body. If you mix it in many nutrient IV bags it will react with other nutrients and oxidize to GSSG. This isn’t a total waste, but it then pushes the body to reduce it again (something people who need IV GSH don’t have a lot of extra energy biologically to do). So a push is fine, and most of the GSH will be sucked up by the liver and neuronal tissues anyway which is where you want it. People espouse the “futility of IV glutathione” (people who don’t use it that is) because of the short life it has once in the system – but the time isn’t the issue it is getting it in, and having enough GSH cofactors to keep it cycling. On a side note we don’t push GSH for time reasons but put it in a 100 mL NS bag – but that’s just because we don’t have time to push it).
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