Easy Baking Soda For Gout
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Regular readers will know that personally, I avoid this treatment as I already have raised blood pressure, and have read that sodium bicarbonate can make this worse.
Other people have complained about the taste of baking soda. To an extent, you can mask this with, for example, fruit juice. Or just get used to it.
A baking soda fan wrote about an alternative:
I have used baking soda regularly for my gout for years. Please tell people that you can order empty gel caps online to fill and eat the baking soda in pill form without getting sick. The saltwater taste is what makes most people sick. Godspeed!
This sounds very interesting to me.
I’ve been advised that undissolved baking soda is risky, and a quick look at the evidence concludes that there is a risk of stomach rupture. Please ensure that you dissolve baking soda in water.
As I’ve said, I’m avoiding baking soda at the moment, and looking at dietary ways of alkalizing my body.
I’d love to hear about your experiences with baking soda, so I’ve started a forum topic to discuss this issue.
Please share your thoughts and discuss your theories, experiences or questions about baking soda for gout.
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GoutPal,
I too take antihypertensives so extra sodium isn’t really appealing, but for those who would like to try the bicarbonate route what kind of dosage is recommended?
Will a teaspoon a day do the trick? A tablespoon?
From Does Treating Gout with Baking Soda Work?:
A quickie calculation computes that dosage as 20 grams NaHCO3 or 5800 mg. sodium. Before even eating a GRAIN of salt, that amount is twice the recommended daily maximum of sodium.
Totally unworkable for me.
Have you all heard about URAL an Aussie product of urinary Alkalinizer.. 4g per 1 sachet. I’m gonna try this…can’t stand the pain now. thank you.
I heard cherries are good at suppressing and curing gout. Is this true? Also I heard shrimp exacerbates the problem. Is this true? I’m guessing gout can be traced back to some people’s diet. Maybe it’s an allergic reaction to something they’ve been eating their whole life and their bodies finally had enough of it. Just a guess I’m not a professional.
Yes. In my experience shrimps are a definite trigger for gout!
Maybe I could have goit away with 1/2 dozen- but 2 dozen probably started me on track to my current rotten attack.
My take is that all these “cures” were anecdotal left-overs from an era when there were no decent drugs to treat the disease. Remember nature abhors a vacuum and the medical profession abhors it even more.
Not long ago doctors were diagnosing disease based on the size, shape, and color of one’s stool and then prescribing bloodletting as the cure.
When doctors, priests and shamans don;t have an answer they make one up…and then charge plenty.
Heck if I had a kumquat orchard, I would bombard the web with kumquat cures for gout, cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s.
Don’t count on diet to make much of a difference in a course of gout. The ONLY answer is daily administration of a drug, usually allopurinol, to keep uric acid below the level where it triggers gout. “Diet cures” are for the past, when there was NO cure!
Harry,
I will look into the URAL, an alkalizer. Sounds like a good idea.
Is it a citrate, a carbonate, a bicarbonate? I can’t find anything online about it’s composition. If you’ve used it it should say on the label.
Do you know what it costs per 4 gram sachet?
How is the taste?
If it is magnesium citrate, does it act as a laxative?
Okay,
I found it:
Each sachet contains:
sodium bicarbonate 1.76g
tartaric acid 890mg
citric acid anhydrous 720mg
sodium citrate anhydrous 630mg.
Also contains saccharin.
This preperation contains 644mg of sodium per sachet which should be taken into account by those on a low sodium diet.
I’ll see if my pharmacy (United States) has it.
All I can say is thank God for Baking Soda.
My story is long and exhausting, so I’ll try and not bore you to tears. If you’ve had a accurrent problem with gout, you know that its something that literally ruins your life. I had it 14 years ago, one time. Lasted 2 weeks and that was it.
4 years ago, it hit me again. I went to do many doctors for some help but just couldn’t find it.
The only thing that worked, and only temporarily was a steroid medrol pak. I took all the pills at one time. But it lasted for only a couple days. Then it was back again.
I’ve tried medications, steroid injections, oral steroids, etc.
Then as I scoured the web, I read about cherries, and black cherry juice. I did that. I tried a number of other home remedies. But some required money.
Then one day I found icuredmygout.org.
The author explained in detail, FREE OF CHARGE, as to why baking soda was the answer. I had my doubts, but hell, I’d had gout on and off for 3 years. It was crippling my life. So I said why not. I took it slowly, and waited. But within a day, the pain was subsiding. Then the swelling and redness, and then finally it was completely gone.
I have NEVER CHANGED MY DIET. And trust me, all of the things you aren’t supposed to eat, I ate. Red meat, lobster, beer, etc. all of the bad things I enjoyed then and I enjoyed now.
I continued to take a teaspoon of it in the morning. The initial taste isn’t pleasant, but trust me, you get used to it. I took the amount that they recommended on the web and it worked wonders.
I don’t take it anymore, but every blue moon, I can feel that tingle in my foot, and boom, I drink a teaspoon of baking soda once or twice a day for several days, and the tingle never gets worse, and eventually, in a day, its usually gone. I’ve not had a single teaspoon in about 3 months. But I know its always a chance. So I carry baking soda with me on vacations etc.
All I can say, is the science of lowering the acidity in your blood makes sense to me. Everybody is different, so at some point your body begins to crystalize the acid, so just keep it from getting there.
Mind you, everyone’s body is different, maybe being a B+ blood type might make my blood more or less suspectible to the changes in acid, but I’m telling you, it works for me. Thank God, it works for me. I TAKE NOTHING BUT BAKING SODA AND ONLY WHEN IT FLARES UP. Maybe this will change in a few years, but right now, it works for me.
Please at least give it a try. You have nothing to lose but the chance of a lifetime of pain free and gout free living.
Thats my story and I’m sticking to it. I share this information for no other reason than in hopes that someone might be relieved of the pain of gout. Good luck to you all.
Oh, I have high blood pressure too. The amount of baking soda is likely negligible. Consult with your physician about the amount of sodium you can have, and then cut it out of your diet, i.e. no salt, while you taking the baking soda. its not as bad on your blood pressure as you may think.
Good luck
Ok Richard, How high is high?
150/80 = Normal high
180/90 High- needs drugs
or mine recently
>200/100 -under treatment too !!
It’s, as usual, all in the numbers.
I will howver pursue the use of SBicC with my doc. but I don’t expect much encouragement.
I take four GoutCare capsules a day and did not have a gout attack for nine months. Then I had one. I think that maybe it’s because I grew lazy on drinking 80 oz. of water each day and fell off to 30-40. I did not know about baking soda but had a bottle of sodium bicarbonate on hand. It helped immensely. I took it for two weeks but the gout was cured after one week. Now I’m wondering what to do for prevention. I have an 18 month supply of GoutCare so best to continue with that. Of course, I should not get lazy with water in the future – 80 oz. minimun each day. I will try to each at least one “good” food each meal – at a minimum each day. Ie, today, I’ve had about three servings of mango. But, I live in China and, so far, can’t find the baking soda. I can get the sodium bicarbonate pills. I’m thinking of taking them for one week each month as a preventative measure. After I find the baking soda, I’ll switch to that. Or maybe they’re the same thing – I don’t know.
Whatever you take to help you cope with gout, the one thing you must do is get your doctor to check uric acid levels. If uric acid level is not kept below 6mg/dL, you are still likely to have a slow uric acid crystal build-up that will eventually cause you serious problems.
Bicarbonate of soda, sodium bicarbonate, and baking soda are all exactly the same thing.
when i feel my gout is comeing back i too take a tea spoon of bakeing soda and in a day or so it has gone,thank god for bakeing sode.
I’ve had gout on and off over the past 16 years. In the past two or three I started on colchisine daily as a preventative and had two of the worst attacks since then. I read about the baking soda recently (while under major attack) and started taking 1/2 teaspoon am and bed time and 1/4 teaspoon twice during the day. The swelling has gone down rapidly and even some of the old tophi or knots have started disappearing.
Mike -are you being treated for High BP?
Did you discuss supplementing with Soda BiCarb with him?
Your dose seems bearable- the sort I would consider and the results certainly promising
I too found icuredmygout and love the site! I hate gout and with three small kids you can’t just lay around for 1 to 2 weeks. I use indometh as soon as I feel the it coming, then I use baking soda. I just would love to find out what triggers it to start. I know not drinking enough water will help it start but what triggers the gout to form in the joint. damage, cold, food, standing to long. good luck with you gout and stay strong.
Indometacin is good for gout pain, but it does nothing to get rid of uric acid, which is what causes gout. Uric acid crystals build up every day your uric acid level is high. Some days this will cause inflammation and pain, other days it wont, but those crystals are damaging your bones, tendons, and cartilage.
You need to control your uric acid level.