Activated charcoal, tablets 250 mg 50 pcs

Pharmacotherapeutic group enterosorbent medicine

ATX code: [A07BA01]

Pharmacological properties
The drug has adsorptive and non-specific detoxifying effect. In the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract activated charcoal binds and removes from the body endogenous and exogenous toxic substances of various nature including microbes and microbial toxins, food allergens, medicines, poisons, alkaloids, salts of heavy metals and gases.

Indications

Bloating, Meteorism, Poisoning, Colic, Hangover, Allergy, Diarrhea

Used as a detoxifying agent in exogenous and endogenous toxicosis of various nature.

In the complex treatment of food toxicosis, salmonellosis, dysentery.

In case of poisoning by drugs (psychotropic, sleeping pills, narcotics, etc.), alkaloids, salts of heavy metals and other poisons.

In case of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, accompanied by dyspepsia, flatulence.

In food and drug allergies.

In hyperbilirubinemia (viral hepatitis and other jaundice) and hyperazotemia (renal failure).

To reduce gas in the intestine before ultrasound and X-ray examination.

Active ingredient

Activated carbon

Composition

Active ingredient: activated charcoal – 250 mg, excipient: potato starch 47 mg.

How to take, the dosage

Orally, in tablets or as an aqueous suspension of crushed tablets, 1-2 hours before or after meals and taking other medicines. The required number of tablets are stirred in 100 ml (1/2 cup) of cool water.

Interaction

Activated charcoal has adsorptive properties and when taken simultaneously in high doses with other drugs can significantly reduce their absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, which reduces the effectiveness of other drugs.

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Special Instructions

After taking activated charcoal, the feces turn black.

Contraindications

• Individual intolerance to the drug Activated charcoal,
• Gastrointestinal ulcers (including. gastric and duodenal ulcers, non-specific ulcerative colitis),
• bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract.

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Side effects

Dyspepsia, constipation or diarrhea, staining of stools in a dark color.

Overdose

To date, no cases of overdose have been reported.

Pregnancy use

It is possible to use the drug in pregnancy and during breastfeeding if the expected benefits to the mother exceed the potential risk to the fetus and child.

Similarities

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