Uric Acid Kidney Stones Potassium Citrate. Potassium loads are potentially dangerous. Crystallization of chemical materials normally found suspended in urine at the end of the body s metabolic process result in kidney stones.
Use the k citrate aim for 24 hour urine ph 6. The dosage will range anywhere between 30 to 80 meq day. The phrase you quoted was.
Crystallization of chemical materials normally found suspended in urine at the end of the body s metabolic process result in kidney stones.
Additionally potassium citrate crystallizes stone forming salts like calcium oxalate calcium phosphate and uric acid in the bladder. Four groups of patients were treated with potassium citrate. Perhaps this is more obvious among uric acid stone formers than calcium stone formers although given wide spread use of ace and arb drugs and nsaids potential risk is everywhere. Crystallization of chemical materials normally found suspended in urine at the end of the body s metabolic process result in kidney stones.