A. Taking large doses of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) can be dangerous, as your husband discovered. This is especially true if the baking soda is not fully dissolved before it is swallowed.
But water isn’t an acid or a base, it has a neutral pH. So why the reaction? First, we need to understand that Baking Soda has only one ingredient – sodium bicarbonate. It is a base. That’s it. There ...