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Acidosis is too much blood acidity that is due to an excessive amount of acid in your blood, or by an accumulation of carbon dioxide in your blood that comes from a loss of bicarbonate from your blood, slow breathing or poor lung function.

Your blood becomes acidic if an increase in acid cannot be handled by your body’s pH buffering systems. The areas of your brain that control breathing are stimulated to produce deeper and faster breathing when your pH goes down. The result is that the amount of carbon dioxide that you exhale is increased.

Your kidneys also try to make up for this by excreting more acid in your urine. However, both of these mechanisms may not be able to compensate for this if your body keeps producing too much acid. This can lead to severe acidosis and eventually a coma.

Metabolic acidosis is a type of acidosis in which there is a pH imbalance due to your body accumulating too much acid and not producing enough bicarbonate to adequately neutralize the effects of the excess acid. This condition can result in acidity of blood or acidemia where your pH falls below 7.35. Metabolic acidosis can result in coma and death if it is not treated.

Metabolic acidosis comes as a result of too much acid in your body. This can be caused by an ingestion of a substance that is or can be metabolized to an acid like large doses of aspirin, antifreeze or wood alcohol.

Metabolic acidosis can also result from abnormal metabolism, such as may come from poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus. It can also be caused when normal amounts of acid are made, but your kidneys are not functioning normally.

Most of the signs and symptoms that may be an indication of metabolic acidosis are caused by the underlying disorder or disease that is causing this condition. Signs and symptoms produced by metabolic acidosis itself may include:

§  Lethargy

§  Confusion

§  Rapid breathing

§  Shock and coma.

You or a loved one may be afflicted with metabolic acidosis. You should keep in mind that metabolic acidosis is a condition that is caused by some underlying ailment or illness. Metabolic acidosis and/or complications that have resulted from it or the underling ailment or illness that caused this condition may have led to the disability of you or your loved one and be the reason why you cannot work.

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You or your loved one may be intending to apply for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability that has been brought about by metabolic acidosis and/or complications that have been caused by it or the ailment or illness that resulted in this condition. You may have already tried this option, and your claim was turned down by the Social Security Administration.

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