When too much acid is produced in the body and kidney is unable to remove enough acid due to kidney disease or kidney failure is called metabolic acidosis. Your body can have too much acid due to two main reasons
1.Your body is making too much acid or
- Your kidneys are not balancing or removing enough acid
Signs and symptoms od acidosis
Many people don’t experience signs and symptoms. However, you may experience:
- Fast heartbeat
- Confusion
- Headache
- Weakness
- Feeling tired
- Vomiting
- Loss of appetite
- Deep breathing
If metabolic acidosis is not treated, then you can experience
- Worsen stage of kidney disease
- Bone loss
- Muscle loss due to less protein in your body.
- Endocrine disorders (glands in your body aren’t working properly)
- Delayed growth in children
- Inflammation
- Amyloid accumulation ( accumulation of protein in your body which can hurt your joints, organs and brain.)
Treatment
- We can treat it by bicarbonate. Deficient bicarbonate levels in the body can lead to metabolic acidosis. It is an alkali ( base) which neutralise acid and maintain balance. In this way you can prevent you kidney disease from getting worse.
- Diet plays very vital role. Intake of fruit and vegetable may decrease acid dominance in the body. Fruits and vegetables produce alkali, which balances acid in body.
