GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Our final experiment we shared with the kids at Plainfield Child Care was a chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar. It sort of illustrates a volcanic eruption, ...

Sodium bicarbonate has emerged as a notable ergogenic aid in sports science, primarily due to its ability to augment extracellular buffering capacity and mitigate the accumulation of metabolic acids ...

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 ...

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 ...

urine sample Oral sodium bicarbonate therapy given to patients with chronic kidney disease increases urinary pH but also increases urinary citrate levels, which may mitigate the risk for calcium ...

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 ...