Talk:Hydrochloride

Allergic reaction

Is there anyone out there who has ever experienced an allergic reaction to Hydrochloride or Sodium Chloride? Symptoms are severe nausea, headache, cold and sweaty at the same time, shaky knees and hands.

After a bit of researching my old medical sources (they may be outdated, they are nearly two years old), I have not been able to find any recorded cases of allergic reactions to the Hydrochloride itself. I have found plenty of examples of a person being allergic to the organic base of the hydrochloride though. As for allergic reactions to NaCl, they simply do not exist on the pure basis that: the ions are not big enough to trigger an allergic reaction, and that both of these ions are essential to any complex organism (no NaCl=no neurology or excretory system). And as a note of humour; the symptoms listed above could also be said of love and about a million other problems.Das Nerd 12:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Why don't they use HBr instead of HCl.... found only one cough med using HBr instead - the rest use HCl and give me those EXACT symptoms (nausia, flush, fidgity, shaky, etc.). YES - allergic or hypersensitive, call it what you want but like propylene glycol, either messes me up so much that whatever they are in is wasted... why take a med to help sleep when it keeps you up and sicker instead? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.88.178.223 (talk) 13:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Hydrochlorate?

- I'm pretty sure hydrocloride salts can also be called hydrochlorates... but I'm always wary with the name of chloride cmpds due to inadvertantly getting the wrong oxidation state! Redirect anyone? Seansheep (talk) 08:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Chloride and chlorate are different anions. It would be inappropriate to say that hydrochlorides and hydrochlorates are the same and it's hardly a matter of oxidation state. Slasher 127 (talk) 01:14, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Chloride

The potassium chloride page claims, correctly, that that compound can be called "muriate of potash." NaCl is, similarly, occasionally called "muriate of soda." Both are chlorides, not hydrochlorides. Instead of saying hydrochlorides are "also known as muriate[s]," might it be more accurate to say that a muriate is a salt formed by HCl - whether that happens to be a chloride or a hydrochloride? 216.75.188.196 (talk) 22:41, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

organic or anorganic?

Why is the article limited to the "reaction of hydrochloric acid with an organic base"? Take NaHCl for example, Sodium Hydrochloride, that would be clearly anorganic. --89.204.182.234 (talk) 13:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

First off, I think you mean inorganic. The article refers to organic bases because hydrochloride is actually another term for an amine salt. The actual representation of the compound would be R-N-H+ Cl-. But I could be getting confused. Oh and as for NaHCl: Are you sure you don't mean NaHOCl? Sodium hypochloride, commonly found in household bleach. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sp3hybrid (talk • contribs) 06:46, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Hydrochloride == amine salt?

Isn't hydrochloride just an old way to describe amine salts? Perhaps this article should include more emphasis on the compounds actual structure. For example: C₅H₅N·HCl would actually be C₅H₅N⁺H Cl^-. While most companies label it at Pyridine Hydrochloride, it would actually exists as Pyridinium chloride.

Or have I got muddled up with something else? Sp3hybrid (talk) 07:03, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Mikä vaikutus on aivoihin(muistisairauteen)=altzaimer? On nyt käytössä.Lindbe Lindbe (talk) 10:01, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Acidity?

In the Uses section, there's mention of medicines often being in hydrochloride form. Are solutions of these medicines acidic, basic or neutral? Does it depend on what the drug is? Is there a typical pH range? I'm specifically interested in Methylphenidate. There's no information in the Wiki article but, although no details were given, I have read elsewhere that it's acidic to litmus paper. Others might be also looking for info about the acidity, or otherwise, of their medications. Thanks for adding this if you know. 92.24.205.0 (talk) 10:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

I have the same question, seven years later! It surprises me that such a common and presumably important compound has such a short article. Let's at least at the stub template! (Off-topic: English Wikipedia has disappointed me lately. I get the impression that it does not maintain the quality it did before, bearing increasing similarity to the much smaller Norwegian site. Are a lot of voluntary resources tied up in counteracting bot-assisted propaganda efforts etc.? Or is the site in a process of being abandoned?) Elias (talk) 10:03, 14 October 2021 (UTC)