Alka PH test strip

Description

The Significance of Urine pH

The pH level of your urine can serve as a valuable indicator of your body’s overall health. By using indicator strips to measure urine pH, you can easily assess your current metabolic state and the balance between acidity and alkalinity in your body. This simple test provides insights into how well your body is managing its acid-base balance.

Beyond Just pH

Many factors, such as diet, stress, medications, intense physical activity, and environmental conditions, can impact our body's pH levels. When the body becomes too acidic, it can affect overall function. It's important to understand that there isn’t a single “optimal” pH for the entire body. Each organ, tissue, and bodily fluid has its own ideal pH level to maintain balance and health.

Getting to know your balance 

Our body has a built-in control mechanism in which it neutralizes and excretes excess acid waste. However, this mechanism loses effectiveness over the years with advancing age and the increasing amount of acidic waste. 

It's important to keep a healthy acid-base balance.  Regularly measuring your pH can help you and show you what to do. 

Alka® pH test strips have been developed for simple and uncomplicated measurement of liquids. This allows you to easily measure the pH of your urine. 

Ingredients

Instructions

To get the most accurate reading follow these steps:

• Do not eat or drink anything the day before from 8 pm, except water. 
• Start the test day with the measurement of the morning urine. 
• Then test the urine in the afternoon, at about 1 pm. 
• End the test day with a measurement about 8 pm. 
  
  

Calculate the results:

Keep track of measured pH values - you can calculate the daily average by taking three measurements, adding them together and divide by 3 for example. An easy to use table for this is provided with the product which allows you to properly track it.

More

What does the pH mean? 

pH is a scale that measures how acidic or basic a liquid is.

• Acidic: If a liquid has a low pH (below 7), it’s considered acidic. For example, lemon juice and vinegar are acidic.
• Neutral: A pH of 7 means the liquid is neutral, like pure water.
• Basic (or Alkaline): If a liquid has a high pH (above 7), it’s considered basic. For example, baking soda dissolved in water is basic.

Key Points

• The scale ranges from 0 to 14.
• Lower numbers mean more acidity; higher numbers mean more alkalinity.
• pH affects many things in nature, like how plants grow and how our bodies function.

In short, pH tells us if something is sour (acidic), balanced (neutral), or soapy (basic)!
You can interpret the result of the average pH as follows: 

• Average pH between 6.5 and 7.0 = no significant acidification 
• Average pH between 5.5 and 6.5 = moderate hyperacidity 
• Average pH between 4.5 and 5.5 = severe acidification