Doctors agree that activated carbon is the most universal nonspecific antidote (antidote). It helps in food poisoning and alcohol poisoning, with intoxicating heavy metal salts and inhaled combustion products. Activated coal is used in complex treatment of dysentery, abdominal typhoid, gastritis, colitis, severe diarrhea forms.
The universality of activated carbon is explained by its highest surface activity, i.e. Tablets work as a "sponge", absorbing all sorts of poisons. Actively absorbing (absorbing) the poisons that fell into the body, coal does not give them to spread through the body and protects it from even greater intoxication. The benefit from activated carbon will be the greatest if it starts to take for a short time after any poisoning (maximum - 12 hours). In the time you need to take 1-2 grams (4-8 tablets) of coal and then repeat the same dose after 1.5-2 hours. If the improvement has not come, then take coal several times a day at the same time intervals.With severe diseases, like dysentery, acute colitis, protracted gastritis, or strongest chemical poisoning, treatment should be carried out only under the control of the doctor. Activated coal in this case can only become a temporary measure to reduce the risk of complete poisoning of the body.