or hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, occurs when a loss of bicarbonate (alkali) tips the pH balance in your blood toward becoming too acidic (metabolic acidosis). In response, your body holds ...

and bicarbonate losses from the kidney or in gastrointestinal secretions. Calculation of the plasma anion gap is particularly useful in identifying the specific cause of metabolic acidosis and in ...

Phenformin, the other previously available biguanide, was withdrawn from the market in 1977 because of an association with lactic acidosis. Buformin, another biguanide, is not available in the ...

Nowadays most of us cook our vegetables for a shorter time and so don¹t need to add the bicarb.It really isn¹t neccesary to use it at all, and hasa the definite disadvantage of depleting the ...