What does the HCl that is included in many medication names refer to?

Answer 1

I know HCL as hydrochloric acid. However, I do not know any medication that makes use of HCL. Perhaps you could tell me the name of your medicine? (My guess is that those are orally ingested HCL tablets)

HCL is actually found in the stomach and has a pH value of 2: highly acidic and corrosive. HCL activates the zymogens, pepsinogen and prorennin into pepsin and rennin. Besides, I have an interesting fact for you. Your stomach digests only PROTEINS. NO other stuff. Interesting it is right? Such a bag digests only protein!

Zymogens are inactivated enzymes.
Enzymes help to digest food at a faster rate
Inactive enzymes cannot digest food

Answer 2

The chemical compound hydrochloric acid is the aqueous (water-based) solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas. It is a strong acid, the major component of gastric acid and of wide industrial use. As a highly corrosive liquid, hydrochloric acid should be handled only with appropriate safety precautions.

Hydrochloric acid, or muriatic acid by its historical but still occasionally used name, has been an important and frequently-used chemical from early history, and was discovered by the alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan around the year 800. It was used throughout the Middle Ages by alchemists in the quest for the philosopher's stone, and later by several European scientists including Glauber, Priestley, and Davy, to help establish modern chemical knowledge.

During the Industrial Revolution, it became an important industrial chemical for many applications, including the large-scale production of organic compounds, such as vinyl chloride for PVC plastic and MDI/TDI for polyurethane, and smaller-scale applications, such as production of gelatin and other ingredients in food, and leather processing. At present, production is approximately 20 million metric tonnes annually (20 Mt/a) of HCl gas.

Answer 3

first of all, HCl is not included in medications at the finished product, I mean its acidic effects does not exist, but its relative to its salt component, such as drug-HCl, because salts of HCl are easily dissolved in the media of stomach and intestine. so Drug-HCl is only means that itis the salt of medication, the cl is negative and the medication is positively charged in an acqeous solution.

Answer 4

HCL= [H] Hydrogen [CL] Chlorine.Combined HCL is pronounced
hydrochloric acid which of course is an acid.It is a amolecule having one atom of hydrogen and one atom of chlorine.When in a drug its acidic properties are next to nil.The HCl is present to make the drug soluble in water and digestive juices.

Answer 5

HCl is actually the short name or formula for hydrochloric acid...

Answer 6

You ROCK Mr Pharm D Jtvone !!!

Hydrochloride

Answer 7

H = hydrogen
Cl = chloride
together they = hydrochloric acid