Forty Years Abuse of Baking Soda,

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" We present a patient who had ingested sodium bicarbonate for treatment of

alcoholic dyspepsia during forty years at increasing doses. During the last year

he had used more than 50 grams daily. He presented with metabolic alkalosis,

epileptic convulsions, subdural hematoma, hypertension and rhabdomyolysis with

end stage renal failure, for which he had to be given regular intermittent

hemodialysis treatment..... "

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