Prior low-quality evidence has suggested that sodium bicarbonate may benefit critically ill patients with severe metabolic acidemia and acute kidney injury (AKI). In this randomized trial of patients ...

Sodium bicarbonate is an antacid medication that can help treat people with kidney disease who develop metabolic acidosis. Kidney disease, also known as “chronic kidney disease” (CKD), is a condition ...

Sodium bicarbonate is an antacid medication that may help treat metabolic acidosis in people with kidney disease. If a person has kidney disease, it may cause them to develop metabolic acidosis. This ...

Sodium bicarbonate supplements may delay progression of renal disease. Patients with chronic kidney disease and metabolic acidosis treated with sodium bicarbonate experienced decreased risks of a ...

During a recent shift, our emergency department (ED) team saw a patient with fairly severe diabetic ketoacidosis. The patient's serum bicarbonate level was 6 mEq/L and the venous pH was 6.85. During ...

Researchers assessed the safety and efficacy of tart cherry supplementary citrate use among patients with gout initiating urate lowering therapy. Tart cherry supplementation had comparable effects on ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Sodium bicarbonate — long used, albeit sporadically, to correct metabolic acidosis in chronic kidney disease — is significantly better at slowing disease progression than standard ...

Anyone who’s done speedwork or lifted heavy knows the feeling—that achy, burning sensation in your muscles that grinds your workout to a halt. It’s painful, annoying, and pretty much impossible to ...