Mice have a unique digestive system that prevents them from burping or passing gas, and baking soda reacts with stomach acid to produce carbon dioxide gas, which can prove fatal for these rodents.

This gas quickly builds up within the rodent’s digestive system, causing a fatal blockage. Here’s the issue: mice won’t just walk up to a mound of baking soda and start snacking. To ...

In the future, therapies that focus on gut health—whether through diet, medication, or nerve stimulation—could be used to ...