Nutrimed Labs: ACIDOSIS

Condition: ACIDOSIS

SUGGESTED NUTRITION:

CMK #400
3 daily - PH Balancer containing potassium, calcium, and magnesium

Renatrate #409
3 daily - Supports kidney function, this being the most important organ in the regulation of the acid-base mechanism

Tri-40 # 421
3 daily - Thyroid regulates the calcium phosphorous ratio which, for normal metabolism, must be on the basis of 2.5 to 1

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PATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

Metabolic acidosis results from one or more of three basic disturbances:
1. Impaired renal excretion of acid- When the kidney fails to excrete sufficient hydrogen and ammonium ions (NH-4), a decline in tubular reabsorption and regeneration of bicarbonate (HCO-3) occurs and severe metabolic acidosis results. Severe dehydration also produces metabolic acidosis party due to the reduced renal blood flow leading to renal insufficiency and failure of hydrogen ion excretion.
2. Excessive acid production - Most common cause is diabetic ketoacidosis and underlying diabetes must be the first avenue of treatment. Also, lactic acidosis may occur in vascular shock, and poisoning due to salicylates, methyl alcohol, and ethylene glycol. Occasionally, ammonium chloride administration can also induce metabolic acidosis.
3. Loss of bicarbonate (HC0-3) from intestines - Large losses of bicarbonate ions due to diarrhea and external gastro-intestinal fistulas may cause metabolic acidosis.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

Carbon dioxide accumulates in the tissues when there is a depletion of bicarbonate ions. Oxygen cannot thus be utilized when there is a disturbance in the acid-base relationship of the tissues. The osmotic interchange between the arterial blood and tissue fluids is altered and the oxygen is carried away by the venous blood without being used. This produces a systemic oxygen depletion which produces symptoms of frequent sighing, breathlessness, and in more pronounced cases, an irregular respiration. Factors involved include starvation which produces a ketosis as body reserves are used up and liver dysfunction tends to occur; possible failure of adrenal mechanism caused by shock or severe mental stress; and in marked obesity, due to a failure to metabolize carbohydrates, a metabolic acidosis may occur.

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