[ConservativeMind]

No one wants contrast induced nephropathy, which lowers your eGFR (kidney function). Potassium nitrate greatly saved delicate kidney tissue. Another practice that greatly reduces CT contrast kidney issues is pre-warming the contrast to body temperature before injection (the viscosity is reduced by 50% being pre-warmed).

Doing both might save nearly everyone’s kidneys.

[ConservativeMind]

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[AlaskaErik]

And guess what has lots of nitrates. Bacon! Bacon is good for the heart. The more you know...

[RummyChick]

This is an interesting concept. I wonder if it would help with MRI contrast such as gadolinium.

The Drug Bank indicates that even in severely renal impaired patients Gadolinium should leave your body in less than a week.

It did not for me as proven by a urine workup.

If anyone here knows the Chuck Norris (you never know who is lurking) his wife should check her MDR1 gene. A defect in that gene may be why she had such a reaction to Gadolinium. When you have some of these defects it can cause a problem with these contrast agents. A normal dose overdosed me because the p glycoprotein action didn’t pump the toxin out.
The same might hold true for these other types of contrasts.

Definitely drink a lot of water to try to get it out of your body.

One thing I noticed is that activated charcoal seemed to help my symptoms. It has been shown to help the creatine issue. I just wish I had bombarded my system with activated charcoal (on a short term basis) once I noticed an issue.