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How baking soda could help kidney failure

(Daily Express 17/07/2009)

A DAILY dose of baking soda could transform the lives of patients with failing kidneys, it was claimed today. New research by British scientists suggests sodium bicarbonate - otherwise known as baking soda - can dramatically slow the progress of chronic kidney disease. The simple household product used for baking, cleaning, bee stings and acid indigestion is so effective it could prevent patients having to be put on kidney machines, the results show.

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Urgent kidney patients 'failed'

(BBC 11/06/2009)

Doctors have been failing patients who develop emergency kidney problems in hospital, a national inquiry has found. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death looked at 564 patients who died in hospitals in England and Wales from acute kidney injury (AKI). It found that 50% of the patients did not receive a good standard of care. In particular, the report found doctors seriously wanting when it came to diagnosis.

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