Chloride

Chloride is a salt consisting of two elements, one of which is chlorine. Chloride makes up about 0.15% of the body weight and is found in the extracellular fluid, along with sodium.
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Chloride is a mineral. Chloride, along with sodium and potassium, are known as the electrolyte minerals. Electrolytes are in all body fluids and help regulate the balance of fluids in the body's cells.
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Chloride (Cl-) is the major negative ion in the fluid outside the body's cells. Its main function is to maintain electrical neutrality, mostly as a counter-ion to sodium. Changes in the chloride level often accompany sodium losses and excesses.
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Chloride can also be measured in skin sweat to test for cystic fibrosis.
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Cl (chloride): Cl is the chemical symbol for chloride, the major anion found in the fluid outside of cells and in blood.
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Phencyclidine Hydrochloride (PCP)
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Serum chloride levels sometimes increase to abnormal levels as an undesirable side effect of medical treatment with sodium chloride or ammonium chloride.
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Vinyl chloride, used in making plastics
Dioxin, an unwanted byproduct of incineration
Herbicides that contain the chemical phenoxyacetic acid
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sweat (chloride) test - a test to measure the amount of chloride in the sweat. The test is performed by placing a solution on the forearm (or the thigh if the child is too small) and attaching electrodes.
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Sodium chloride
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oxybutynin chloride syrup For treatment of bladder symptoms associated with neurogenic bladder, including frequency, urgency, urge incontinence, dysuria and urinary leakage. Mfg: Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals. Source: PR Newswire - 3/17/97.
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Benzalkonium chloride and hexachlorophine are used primarily as hand scrubs or face washes.
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Salt (sodium chloride). Most canned foods and frozen dinners contain high amounts of sodium. Too much of it makes you thirsty, and when you drink more fluid, your heart has to work harder to pump the fluid through your body.
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Salt or sodium chloride is an essential trace element.ا"م"ح او ك"وريد ا"صوديوم هو عنصر اساسي اثر.
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It is caused by a genetic abnormality in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that results in the disruption of chloride transfer across cell membranes.
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Diphenhydramine hydrochloride, 25 mg to 50 mg every 6 hours, has demonstrated effectiveness.[13] Hydroxyzine hydrochloride, 25 mg to 50 mg every 6 to 8 hours, or cyproheptadine hydrochloride, 4 mg every 6 to 8 hours, may provide symptomatic relief.
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The irregular heartbeat can be treated with medications, such as diltiazem hydrochloride (Cardizem), digoxin (Lanoxin) or verapamil (Tarka), which slow the heart rate.
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Poisoning by heavy metals such as mercury, thallium, and lead, or solvents such as toluene or carbon tetrachloride
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- Also helpful are calcium chloride, hydrochloric acid, or ammonium chloride on the area.
- Apply poultice of white oak bark and leaves, comfrey, and slippery elm.
- Pain gels, DMSO, or Caladryl lotions can be applied.
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Zyban (Bupropion Hydrochloride) is a new medication which helps those trying to quit smoking. This article outlines it's use and some precautions.
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Donepezil hydrochloride (trade name, Aricept), a relatively new medicine, seems to improve cognitive function by setting the disease state back to an earlier stage.
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Another common test for impingement involves the injection of a small amount of local anesthetic (such as novocaine or lidocaine hydrochloride) into the space under the acromion.
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Zinc
Various zinc salts such as zinc oxide (relatively nontoxic), zinc acetate, zinc sulfate and zinc chloride
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ELECTROLYTE PROFILE - A test which includes the measurement of the sodium, potassium, C02, and chloride concentrations in venous blood.
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TOXIC HEPATITIS - Hepatitis caused by an industrial chemical such as carbon tetrachloride or phosphorus.
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Compounds that separate into charged particles in water. The main electrolytes in the human body are sodium, potassium, bicarbonate, chloride, magnesium, calcium and phosphate.
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