May I offer a correction…baking soda aka sodium bicarbonate is relatively safe except if you are taking certain medications and the list isn’t short. Please verify you are not taking any medications that it would interact negatively with. Also, electrolytes are necessarily for our bodies to function as they help produce the electrical signals our hearts produce. They do not have anything to do with our GI system though. Gaterade as a drink contains fructose, potassium and sodium as electrolytes but not all of them. The fructose sugar will draw water into your GI system causing you to possibly pass gas. Good luck.