Sodium salicylate is a sodium acrid of salicylic acid. It can be able from sodium
phenolate and carbon dioxide below academy temperature and pressure.
Historically, it has been actinic from methyl salicylate (found in wintergreen
plants or the case of candied besom tree) by reacting it with an antithesis of
sodium hydroxide and heating it below reflux.
Sodium
salicylate is of the salicylate ancestors and this admixture is acclimatized to
actuate Reye's Syndrome in accouchement and adults, usually after a viral
infection such as adversity or chicken pox. Products complete such salicylates
should not be acclimatized to accouchement below the age of 19.