Talk:Cysteamine

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Cysteamine. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

http://www.himfr.com/d-p113878361829482025-Feed_Additive_for_Swine_Poultry_Coated_Cysteamine_HCl_20/

I don't know if there is a "not to be confused with" template, but if so, we should put one at the top of this page because the name is very similar to cystamine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EbedYahweh (talk • contribs) 16:03, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The following is unsourced. WP:MEDRS sources need to be found and this content checked against them before this is restored, per WP:BURDEN:

No significant side effects, other than allergic reactions in a few cases, are reported with topical use of cysteamine on human being. A burning sensation together with warmth and mild redness of the skin might occur immediately after application and would usually disappear after about 30 minutes. This is a normal reaction and happens only in the first few days of the treatment.

No study for use in pregnant and breast-feeding mothers have been conducted and hence cysteamine must not be used in these populations. Avoid using cysteamine if you, or somebody in your first-order family, suffer(s) from vitiligo.

Once in contact with the air, cysteamine can produce a slight sulfur-like odor. This is especially the case when cotton or synthetic tissues get in contact with cysteamine.

-- Jytdog (talk) 11:35, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

the following is unsourced, moved here per PRESERVE

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It is used as the hydrochloride salt, as it readily oxidizes to the corresponding disulfide, in the presence of air. The amine portion of the molecule serves as a catalyst for this reaction.

4 HSCH₂CH₂NH₂ + O₂ → 2 NH₂CH₂CH₂SSCH₂CH₂NH₂ + 2 H₂O

-- Jytdog (talk) 11:39, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did the following pubmed searches and found no reviews:

• ("cysteamine"[MeSH Terms] OR "cysteamine"[All Fields]) AND ("hyperpigmentation"[MeSH Terms] OR "depigmentation"[All Fields]) AND Review[ptyp] (link)
• ("cysteamine"[MeSH Terms] OR "cysteamine"[All Fields]) AND "melanins"[MeSH Terms] AND Review[ptyp] (link)
• ("cysteamine"[MeSH Terms] OR "cysteamine"[All Fields]) AND melanogenesis[All Fields] AND Review[ptyp] (link

{The MeSH name includes alt names btw, se here)

So I took out the content on depigmentation as it was all old, primary sources. Jytdog (talk) 14:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jytdog,Template:Infobox_drug is this what you meant here[1]...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:17, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

yes thanks! i don't think there is a way to "convert", one just has to manually do it. i'll do that tomorrow. Jytdog (talk) 16:53, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:HyperPigm In this edit, the source provided (this one) says nothing about skin depigmentation. Please explain why you are trying to add this unsourced content to Wikipedia. Jytdog (talk) 15:30, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

there is a confusion in this page: cysteamine is not a medication, cysteamine bitartrate is. let s find a way to resolve this central point. HyperPigm (talk) 07:12, 27 September 2017 (UTC)HyperPigm[reply]

You need good refs for claims pertaining to health. No confusion present. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]