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Sodium Bicarbonate From:
Study Group on Urinary
Stones For more information, contact: Carroll H. Weiss, Director For Immediate Release NEW CANINE STONE-FORMING
TEXTBOOK For decades, sodium bicarbonate has been known and used by Dalmatian fanciers when their dogs have been confirmed with abnormal urate urinary crystals/stones. It now appears that sodium bicarbonate may worsen and complicate the dog's urate stone-forming. According to the Dalmatian chapter in the latest and most definitive teaching textbook for veterinarians on canine stone-forming: "Because sodium may combine with uric acid to form sodium urate, potassium citrate may be preferable to sodium bicarbonate as a urine alkalinizing agent." Unfortunately all Dalmatians are born with the potential urinary problem for urates. Why some Dalmatians become overt stone-formers while others including littermates do not, is unknown. Sodium urate is only one type of urate but all urates are characterized as thriving in an abnormally acidic urine. Therefore, one component of treatment and prevention is to reverse that abnormal acidity by attempting to neutralize it with alkalinizing chemicals such as potassium citrate. This should be started only by consulting with your veterinarian. The DCA Study Group is very impressed with the vast spectrum of state-of-the-art knowledge in the new textbook for treatment and prevention of canine stone-forming, encompassing years of experience with data on over 75,000 canine stones! We urge all owners of afflicted dogs to question if their vet's reference library has acquired it. Ordering details are as follows: THE VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA January 1999 Volume: "The ROCKet Science of Canine Urolithiasis" In U.S., order by calling toll free: 1-800-654-2452 In Canada, order by calling toll free: 1-800-387-7278 (End, September 1999 bulletin)
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