Banana bag

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A banana bag is a bag of IV fluids containing multivitamins (MVI). The bags typically contain MVIs, Thiamine and Folic acid, sometimes Magnesium sulfate, and are usually used to replenish nutritional deficiencies or correct a wrong chemical balance in the human body. Commonly used in the cases of alcohol abuse.

MVI have yellow color, which is what makes the fluid yellow, hence the term "banana bag".

Banana bags are also known as "Rally packs".

[edit] References in Popular Culture

A banana bag is mentioned in the TV series House, ER, and Grey's Anatomy.

[edit] See also

Intravenous therapy


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