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My medication alkalizes urine and can cause calcium phosphate stones. how can i acidify my urine to counter this effect?

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Acidifying urine: You can acidify urine by taking vitamin c or cranberry juice. Certain foods can acidify the urine too, such as plums, prunes, meats, cheeses, eggs, fish, and grains.

Answered 1/15/2014

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Add citrate: Best approach is to add citrate. Citrate interferes with ca x phos and ca x oxalate. Citrate is available by rx as Urocit K and as Bicitra (citric acid and sodium citrate). You can supply citrate with orange juice and ReaLemon extract. These will not alkalinize urine.

Answered 9/5/2014

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