Alka Seltzer or Tums: Which one works faster?

  • Alka Seltzer
  • Tums
Please select one to answer and see the result

Answers

Alka Seltzer - 38Tums - 11
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Dissolves acid and food
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Works faster and better relief
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Years of experience.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Alka Seltzer has the ability to keep the ph slightly higher, more basic for a longer period of time. This is called buffering. As your stomach tries to make more acid to olower the ph, it takes longer to for it to throw more protons (free protons are what drives the the ph down causing it to be more acidic) into the mix keeping your stomach at a more sustainable level. This is why I picked it. Having had to take both for acid reflux I have noticed that the rate of change in pain when taking Alka seltzer is almost instantaneous.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Brah it works. Pop in mouth and it rips
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
lab experiment
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Years of GERD experience.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I dont knw
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it just does
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It works.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
In my lab, it took 30 drops of HCl to neutralize while tums took 45.

I tested this using BTB
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We conducted an experiment.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
just picked
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
In different sources and in an experiment conducted it proves that Alka-Seltzer rules out Tums
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
i did an experiment in bio class
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I conducted an expirement.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Alka +10

TUMS -0
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Alka Seltzer work really fast I mean really fast for. Alka helped me alot.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We did an experiment and Alka Seltzer was much faster.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
from experience
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I am 58 years old, I learned about Tums and Alka Seltzer from my dad. I hated the taste of Alka Seltzer the first couple times my parents suggested I use it (I was in my teens). For just heartburn, tums seems to get the job done. However; for that bloated feeling, nothing I have ever tried give the fast and long term relief of Alka Seltzer.
Steve
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it dissolves faster than tums!!!!!
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
because im chuck norris
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it fizzes faster so that means it disolves in your stomache to relax it
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It brought the pH level of HCl diluted 20 ml/ 80 ml distilled water from 2 to 5 in under 30 seconds. Tums took 5 minutes for the same results.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It is an immediate release tablet and tums work over time.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
When placed in water, the alka-seltzer creates a reaction between the citric acid and the sodium bicarbonate, dissolving these substances into their ionic states. This allows them to work faster in solution in the stomach, without having to be dissolved in the stomach, like Tums, for example.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It can neutralize more acid per weight compared to Tums.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I did an experiment in Honors Biology. It proves that Alka Seltzer works better.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
From personal experience, Alka Seltzer works much better for me.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because it does
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
bc i did an experiment in my biology class
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Maybe because you drink it, it just is an instant relief
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it just work more faster
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it dissolves in vinegar fast
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it just does.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I've taken both and alka seltzer works so much faster for me.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Better
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
cuz
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because it goes straight to the source of the heartburn.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
shrek
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Go for TUMS
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It helps me alot
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago

TUMS helps me burn my heartburn really fast like in 5 minutes for Alka Seltzer it feels a little soda feeling
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Seems to work almost instantly, whereas alka seltzer does not
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
dsvaf
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
because i say so
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
proven.

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