A pharmacist who specialises in compounding “novel” medicines has been banned for inappropriately supplying vitamin infusions to ‘wellness clinics’ which marketed them to patients with chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.

Dr Michael Serafin (PhD) came to the attention of NSW regulators after a patient of the iv.me Hydration Clinic was admitted to a Sydney hospital with suspected endotoxaemia in early February 2016.

The patient had received a so-called Myer’s Cocktail, an infusion of various B vitamins, sodium ascorbate (vitamin C), calcium and magnesium, plus an injection of the Schedule 4 drug glutathione.

It subsequently emerged that Dr Serafin had supplied the two pharmacist-run clinics, located in Sydney and Melbourne medical practices, with 397 doses of Myer’s cocktail over a year-long period between September 2015 and August 2016.