Hi, Thanks for the chemical lesson!!! I had no idea what was involved except what I read on the internet. Why would this cause her to be vomiting so much? I have never seen or heard such forceful vomiting. It was very scary!!!! She has been very sick for about a month now. Have you heard of a pain medicine called ultrex or something like that? She had started taking that when she broke her foot on her birthday, June 2, and that was about the time that all of this started. I do not know if there is a connection or not. The kidney specialist is looking into that and all the other medications that she is on for all her illnesses. My niece from MS just called and said they would be up tomorrow for ILA. It will be good to see her and her teenage daughter, but I am in no mood for any visitors!!!!! MamaB
Vomiting can throw off the acidity of the blood because you vomit up acid from your stomach, and the kidneys try to correct this by trading bicarb for potassium in excretion.
But if your acidity is throw out of whack for another reason, it can cause you to feel nauseated and cause you to vomit.
So, there is no way to tell without more information whether the vomiting is the horse or the cart, the cause or the effect.
Kidney specialists (I'm talking nephrologists, not urologists) are the ones who are most familiar with all the causes of acid-base imbalances, so I am very glad you have one consulting.
Ultrex sounds familiar, but not spelled the way I remember it---it may be a generic of the one I remember which was a synthetic opiate substitute.
All pain killers, including Tylenol and aspirin and the nonsteroidals as ibuprofen (Motrin), have the risk of causing kidney damage or interfering with kidney function, some more so than others.