so I asked for his thoughts on what ammonia would do to the stomach. The good news, he told me, is that the reaction wouldn’t produce chlorine gas. Ammonia is a base, so it would react directly with the acid in your stomach and neutralize it, forming a salt. The salt, ammonium chloride, is mildly irritating to your digestive system but not particularly harmful in itself. However, the above reaction also produces a lot of heat, so you’d suffer stomach burns as the acid and the ammonia neutralized.
