Activated Charcoal
Drug name: Activated Charcoal
Other names used:
- Actidose®
- InstaChar®
- Liqui-Char®
- SuperChar®
Active Ingredients:
Activated Charcoal
Therapeutic actions: Activated Charcoal has an absorbent, detoxifying, and anti-diarrhea effect since it absorbs poisons and other toxins from the digestive tract, such as alkaloids, glycosides, barbiturates and other sleeping and narcotic agents, salts of heavy metals, toxins of bacterial, vegetal, and animal origin.
Indications: Activated Charcoal is used to detoxify the body in cases of endogenous poisoning (from inside the body) and exogenous poisoning (from outside the body) nausea, gas in the digestive system, food poisoning, dysentery, acid reflux, kidney failure, surface skin infections, bronchial asthma, inflammation of the stomach, intestines and gallbladder, overdoses of medications, allergic sicknesses and alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Patients may use Carbolong to decrease the quantity of intestinal gas for prepare for Roentgen and endoscopic examination.
Recommended dosage: For internal use: Take 250 to 750 milligrams 3 to 4 times daily before or after meals and with other medical agents. Normal course of treatment runs 14 days.
Contraindications and cautions: Do not use in cases of hypersensitivity, stomach and upper small intestines ulcers, nonspecific ulcerous colitis, bleeding from digestive tract.
Adverse effects: The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with this medicine. Because a side effect is stated here, it does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any side effect.
Side effects include constipation and diarrhea. Continuous use may lead to vitamin deficiency, disturbance of the absorption of nutrients from digestive tract and impacted fecal matter.
The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the drug's manufacturer.
Interactions: Tell your doctor or pharmacist what medicines you are already taking, including those bought without a prescription and herbal medicines, before you start treatment with this medicine.
Activated Charcoal decreases the efficiency of medications taken simultaneously.
Additional Information: DO NOT SHARE THIS MEDICINE with others. DO NOT USE THIS MEDICINE for other health conditions. KEEP THIS PRODUCT, as well as syringes and needles, if needed during treatment, out of the reach of children. Do not reuse needles, syringes, or other materials.
