Baking soda for gout.(Bicarbonate of soda).Tell our visitors what your baking soda experience has been

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February 2010 A visitor from Canada talks about baking soda for gout

I have had had gout for about 35 years. Attacks became more and more frequent over the years until I was getting 2-3 major attacks a year, as well as pains in my feet and ankles, which I also suspect were gout. I was amazed the first time I used Baking Soda - it seemed to reduce the time taken for a gout attack from a week or two to a matter of hours or a couple of days. Also, after the first time, I did not have another attack for about 18 months.

I found it to be an effective addition to my usual arsenal of "cures". At the first inkling of an attack I would take a level teaspooonful of baking soda in water before going to bed and then first thing in the morning, then 1/2 a teaspoonful every 3-4 hours during the day until the pain was gone. I also start drinking large volumes of water (filtered to reduce the chlorine content), eat lots of celery, drink black cherry juice, no sugar, no meat or fried foods. I'd live on salads, soups and a couple of slices of bread. I also took indomethecin 3 times a day (25mg). The Baking Soda seemed to enhance all these.

Effective though it was I must warn all gout sufferers that it was not a cure, as it did not prevent my developing Tophi which started during the period I was using baking soda - though I do not believe that it in anyway caused tophi which are the outward manifestation of long term chronic gout.

I had been avoiding taking any drugs for many years and came to a conclusion that there are no natural cures for tophi, so am now on Allopurinol which appears to reducing the tophi a bit and has resulted in no further gout attacks (at least after 9 months).

I should also add that the baking soda effect seemed to reduce after a couple of years (or maybe the gout was just getting worse) and after 5 years I had a vicious attack even with BS which lasted several weeks and decided me to finally resort to Allopurinol.

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There is a tremendous interest in the baking soda for gout remedy (bicarbonate of soda). The baking soda page is among the most visited on this website, much more popular than any of the pages devoted to drug medications. And there are a few online polls that point to baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) as the most helpful of all the natural remedies for gout.

Although it's a hot gout topic, there's a dearth of information about what gout sufferers experiences with baking soda have been. With online polls, people are simply voting on a form, not describing their experiences. Whilst the poll scores are interesting and encouraging, what readers also want to know, is what others have said about baking soda for gout. What others say may tell them what they can expect, which is more interesting.

You won't find any baking soda for gout studies. Go to the world's largest English language medical database, ask for baking soda and gout studies, and there's nothing which tests the baking soda remedy among study participants.

Yet we are talking about a cheap, relatively safe substance. And many people are very enthusiastic about baking soda when they describe how it helped them deal with one of the nastiest kinds of pain known to humankind.

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Will your contribution make a difference? It certainly will. www.best-gout-remedies.com receives a large number of visitors every day (and in a year from more than 100 countries). Like you, they're looking for gout solutions. As mentioned above, one of the pages a large percentage of them head for is the baking soda and gout page.

They are hungry for information about baking soda (bicarbonate of soda). You can throw them some tasty morsels, or a full meal, depending on how much you can say.

Something helpful is missing. This baking soda experience page, describing your and others' experience, will help to fill that gap. There's a lack of baking soda for gout studies, yet in mid 2009 baking soda was featured in a study.The study was related to gout in a first cousin sort of way - baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) helped trial patients suffering from kidney disease. If the kidneys can't excrete uric acid well, its level will rise. Baking soda came through this trial with flying colours. There's a description of this on the baking soda page.

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Remember, if you're planning to use baking soda for gout. Always consult a doctor before using baking soda. For just one of many reasons, baking soda contains a lot of sodium which might adversely affect your blood pressure.