Sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3) is a time-honored remedy for acid indigestion. It gives off CO 2 when it is heated, which makes cakes and cookies rise during baking. It can ...

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 ...

HealthDay News — For patients at high risk for renal complications who are scheduled for angiography, there is no benefit with intravenous sodium bicarbonate over sodium chloride or with oral ...

Sometimes the best performance boosters come in the most unexpected forms. This athlete skips the hype and dry scoops pure baking soda before a brutal CrossFit workout, leaning into old-school science ...

In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial that enrolled patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3 and 4, sodium bicarbonate did not significant affect sit-to-stand time or bone mineral density.

March 7, 2005 — Sodium bicarbonate can improve outcome in children with life-threatening asthma (LTA), according to the results of a retrospective study published in the March issue of Chest. "It was ...

During the past two years we have successfully reversed an apparently declivitous course in 6 patients with refractory bronchial asthma by correcting respiratory acidosis with sodium bicarbonate given ...