A number of widely circulated social media posts have recorded some extreme cases, such as an individual being diagnosed with ...

Bottled drinking water is typically considered the cleanest water, but this is not necessarily the case. Bottled water refers ...

Livestock farmers in South Africa are being urged to work with their veterinarians to update their animal health and ...

A person with a pH imbalance may have high acid levels, called “acidosis,” or high bases, known as “alkalosis.” A pH imbalance is a serious concern and indicates an underlying health ...

Consuming baking soda almost every day can, in some people, lead to alkalosis, i.e., it can disrupt the body's acid-base balance, which can cause muscle twitching, nausea, or even edema in some people ...

Seventy-three subjects had hypocarbia and respiratory alkalosis. Carbon dioxide retention (observed in 11 patients) occurred only at extreme degrees of obstruction. Age, history of asthma and ...

The typical presentation of patients with Liddle syndrome includes early-onset severe hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis in the setting of low plasma renin and aldosterone, low rates ...

Bartter Syndrome (BS) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis with normal or low blood pressure despite hyperreninemia and hyperaldosteronemia.

9 Furthermore, overzealous and/or insufficiently monitored attempts to correct low serum bicarbonate levels could also result in the development of metabolic alkalosis and potentially the re ...

Clinical findings include dehydration, acidosis due to inadequate nutrition, alkalosis due to loss of hydrochloride and hypokalaemia. There are two degrees of severity: (i) grade 1, nausea and ...