Can baking soda treat gout?

Many gout patients feel that neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine can completely cure gout, so they choose baking soda to help treat it. In fact, regular consumption of sodium bicarbonate can also cause great harm to the human body, including the human mental system, digestive system, cardiovascular system, urinary system, and will interfere with calcium absorption, so gout patients need to pay attention.

1. Impact on the mental system

Long-term use of sodium bicarbonate may cause psychiatric symptoms such as muscle pain, convulsions, and persistent headaches.

2. Impact on the digestive system

Long-term use of sodium bicarbonate will neutralize stomach acid due to its weak alkalinity, which will inevitably affect digestion. Symptoms such as bad breath, loss of appetite and nausea often occur. People with gout cannot eat many things, so this will result in even less nutrition and will make the body weaker.

3. Effects on the cardiovascular system

Long-term use of sodium bicarbonate can lead to excessive sodium load in the body, thus affecting heart function and making blood vessels brittle.

4. Impact on the urinary system

Long-term use of sodium bicarbonate can cause alkali poisoning in the kidneys, which is especially harmful to people with renal insufficiency. Many people will also experience symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency.

5. Interfere with calcium absorption

The chemical formula of sodium bicarbonate is NaHC03, which decomposes into carbonate CO3 in the body. CO3 combines with calcium (Ca) to form insoluble calcium carbonate. Due to the large amount of CO3 present in the body and its competitive binding with calcium in the body, it will lead to calcium deficiency and osteoporosis.

6 Patients with gout and hypertension need to pay special attention . Sodium bicarbonate tablets can increase blood pressure. People with gout and hypertension need to take sodium bicarbonate tablets under the guidance of a doctor.

7. Diet therapy is currently the safest and most effective way to treat gout.