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Originally Posted by toodles08 I also post over at the autism board. My son will be 2 this month. He going through evals and whatnot for autism and had some blood work that came back "off"
He was diagnosed today with: distal renal tubular acidosis
anyone have experience with this? What exactly are we looking at for him?
he goes in for a kidney ultrasound on Tuesday.
thanks
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Normally, if things are getting too acidic in the blood, the kidney will spit more acid in to the urine and you pee it out to get rid of it. Distal renal tubular acidosis is a condition where the kidney's acid transporters are messed up and acid is not able to enter your urine, and thus your blood stays acidic. There are three types of renal tubular acidosis, and two of them are distal (type I and type IV). Type 1 RTA is an acidosis associated with low blood potassium, and type IV RTA is an acidosis associated with high potassium.
Did they tell you which acidosis your son had?
new here son got dx today 
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