Potassium citrate is rapidly captivated if
accustomed by aperture and is excreted in the urine. Since it is an acrid
alkali it is able in abbreviation the affliction and abundance of urination if
these are acquired by awful acerb urine. It is acclimated for this purpose in
dogs and cats, but is chiefly active as a balmy diuretic.
Potassium citrate is an able way to
treat/manage gout and arrhythmia, if the accommodating is hypokalemic.
It is broadly acclimated to amusement
urinary calculi (kidney stones) and is generally acclimated by patients with
cystinuria.[medical commendation needed] A abstraction of 500 patients with
alternate stones begin that it bargain the abundance of stones from 2 per year
to a bisected per year.
It is aswell acclimated as an alkanizing
abettor in the analysis of balmy urinary amplitude infections such as cystitis.
Usual Adult Dose: 3 to 6 teaspoonfuls (15
to 30 mL), adulterated with 1 bottle of water, afterwards commons and at
bedtime, or as directed by a physician.
Usual Pediatric Dose: 1 to 3 teaspoonfuls
(5 to 15 mL), adulterated with 1/2 bottle of water, afterwards commons and at
bedtime, or as directed by a physician.
Usual Dosage Range: 2 to 3 teaspoonfuls (10
to 15 mL), adulterated with a glassful of water, taken four times a day. A
brand, Cytra-K Oral Solution, adulterated with a glassful of water, taken four
times a day will usually advance a urinary pH of 7.0-7.6 throughout a lot of of
the 24 hours after abhorrent ancillary effects.
It is aswell acclimated in abounding bendable
drinks as a buffering agent.