Sodium Bicarbonate Injection is indicated in the treatment of metabolic acidosis caused due to diabetes, hepatitis, starvation, shock, cardiac arrest, renal insufficiency, severe dehydration, severe primary lactic acidosis, Addison’s disease or administration of acidic drugs and other conditions requiring systemic alkalinisation. It is also used to increase urinary pH to increase the solubility of certain weak acids, in treatment of certain intoxications to decrease renal absorption of the drug, severe diarrhoea accompanied by loss of bicarbonate, and poisoning by salicylates or methyl alcohol. Sodium Bicarbonate Injection may also be used to treat patients who have taken too many tricyclic antidepressants only after other resuscitation methods have been attempted. Sodium Bicarbonate Injection acts as an electrolyte replenisher and systemic alkaliser. Thereby reducing the acid in the blood. Sodium Bicarbonate Injection helps reduce the amount of acid in the body after a heart attack in patients who have too much potassium in their blood or too much acid. 

Sodium Bicarbonate Injection will be administered by a healthcare professional; do not self-administer.

• Injection site reactions
• Irritability
• Muscle spasms
• Low levels of potassium in the blood

Store in a cool and dry place away from sunlight