A father ran out of breast milk for his 4 month old so gave her formula. The bab

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A father ran out of breast milk for his 4 month old so gave her formula. The baby had a very wet diaper , including diarrhea and a bright red rash all over. He looked in refrigerator for baking soda but couldn't find any. He remembered some useful information from his acid-base chemistry class. He found something else to use, what could this be and from a chemical standpoint how does it work? A father ran out of breast milk for his 4 month old so gave her formula. The baby had a very wet diaper , including diarrhea and a bright red rash all over. He looked in refrigerator for baking soda but couldn't find any. He remembered some useful information from his acid-base chemistry class. He found something else to use, what could this be and from a chemical standpoint how does it work?

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The chemical name of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3). It is basic as well as acid in nature (amphoteric). When this baking soda applied to the baby body it releaves the baby from diarrhea and so by acid-base reaction. Therefore, something he used should be similar in chemical nature of sodium bicarbonat. Potassium carbonate.

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