Are spirits of ammonia and ammonia spirits the same thing?
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They are the same as I understand it. (Here are two sites that give almost identical descriptions):
www.dictionary.com/
www.drugs.com/
I think what is confusing is that ammonia is a cleaning product...and without seeing ingredients in the "spirits" (and trying to remember high school chemistry which was A LONG time ago...) I think "spirits" are chemically ammonium-hydroxide (which just means ammonia mixed with water). This site explains:
www.differencebetween.net/
No matter what, keep any ammonia product AWAY from bleach as that produces a fatal gas! YIKES! Safety first!
I have a bottle of Ammonia Spirits but on the bottle it says for external use only. I hesitate to use it. I am trying to help my step daughter with migraines and it was suggested half a tsp of Spirits of Ammonia in a coke. I just want to be sure of what I am doing before giving it to her.
I have read about this as an old wives tale and would not ingest it unless the doctor or someone in his office OK'd it.
I get migraines and my go to is very easy and works...a warm Pepsi and 1 aspirin and 1 tylenol. Now, again, I AM NOT A DOCTOR, so have your doctor OK this before the migraine sufferer tries it as he/she could be diabetic or on blood thinners or have some other issue and this would be a bad solution.
For MY specific situation, this is what my PCP suggested and 8 out of 10 (not perfect but good record) times it works.
ASK and see if this is right for the person you are helping!
It appears to be the same. They help with fainting. They are both different from ammonia, which is used for cleaning.
Could you check to see what its make-up is? Should be a solution of ammonium carbonate in ammonia water and alcohol.. not household ammonia!
Spirit of Ammonia (aka aromatic spirit of ammonia) was a common household remedy in my family. Our 2 uses were as a respiratory stimulant if someone felt faint, or externally as a drawing agent on a pimple (boil?) that would not come to a head.
The CARES Act went into effect this year. One of the things that was affected was Spirits of Aromatic Ammonia..and the little snap package ammonia salts. The act declared that this was now considered a "new drug" and that the FDA would have to approve it. Humco is the only place that produced it, as far as I can tell. There are none in the UK, nor in the US...unless a pharmacy has one forgotten on a shelf somewhere. It can be bought, if you can find a bottle.
My daughter uses an ammonia coke as one defense against a migraine coming on, sipping a teaspoon in a can of coke over ice. There is no problem ingesting that small amount over a short period of time. She usually sips about and hour. Humco's (and I cannot find any other company that makes it, so far) ingredients are 67% ethyl alcohol, 2% ammonia (ammonium carbonate a leavening substance for baking) lemon oil, lavender oil, Turpenless (orange oil) and Myristicia (nutmeg) oil and purified water.
The prescribed drugs that my daughter's specialists give her are more dangerous than Spirits of Aromatic Ammonia. Luckily, we found a few bottles, have six and a piece, and she is rationing them.
My mother used ammonia cokes to forestall a headache, and I offered one to try to help my daughter do the same. It worked to help.
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