What the label lists and what reports show
Zinc chloride side effects
Zinc chloride's FDA label lists its adverse reactions in its own words. FAERS holds 24,686 reports naming it through July 30, 2026; the reaction reported most often, leaving out the conditions it is used for, product-use terms and outcomes, is fatigue (2,615 reports).
- Generic listed
Check it at the source: the zinc chloride FDA label on DailyMed (effective August 3, 2026, Exela Pharma Sciences,LLC); the FDA FAERS public dashboard.
What does the label list?
From the label: adverse reactionsNone known.
Source: FDA drug label, Exela Pharma Sciences,LLC, effective August 3, 2026 (SPL set 2bd646d2-2a2a-4376-8da0-c7f08b0511ac), via openFDA; the full label on DailyMed
What do FAERS reports show?
24,686 reports list zinc chloride among the medicines taken, each a report of something that happened, not proof the medicine caused it; 1,507 are coded as a death and 6,172 as a hospital stay. Counts follow how widely a medicine is used and watched, and they are not a measure of how risky it is. Of the 22 reactions below, none is named by the same term (in US spelling) in the label's adverse reactions, warnings or patient leaflet; a reaction the label does not name may still be there under another word, and a report does not show that the medicine caused it.
Reports received each year
The 25 most reported reactions
Source: FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA, reports through July 30, 2026; reactions as MedDRA preferred terms
What next?
- Zinc chloride: the full record
- label, generics, price, shortages, recalls
- Report a side effect to the FDA
- MedWatch
- Side effects hub
- the most reported medicines and reactions