What adsorbents

Absorbent material or adsorbents - a neutral substance having the property of absorbing the liquid released during inflammation when applying them to the damaged skin, as well as to absorb a variety of harmful substances.

Adsorbents for external use (talc, starch) to absorb the liquid, resulting in inflammation and have a drying effect, speeding up the healing of wounds. They also protect the affected skin from irritation harmful substances and prevent their absorption.

Adsorbents for internal use (activated carbon) absorb harmful substances entering the body or isolated in digestion.

  From the activated charcoal to give

Activated carbon - is an absorbent means which is derived from fossil coal or wood. Special finely activated carbon produced by heat treatment without air access of certain polymers.

Useful properties of coal were known in ancient Egypt, where charcoal is used for medical purposes is already 1, 5 thousand. BC Ancient Romans also used coal for water, beer and wine.

Charcoal adsorption of gases has been opened in 1773 by the Swedish chemist Scheele, and the adsorption of substances from solutions using activated carbon - in 1785. Russian chemist Lovitz. From this time the activated carbon steel used as antidotes for binding toxins which have got into the gastrointestinal tract, as well as for adsorption of gases at bloating Bloating - if you are bursting inside   (flatulence).

  As the activated carbon in the gastrointestinal tract

The main property of the activated carbon - high sorption capacity due to the large number of pores in its surface. Pore ​​size depends on the processing technology used for its cooking. Activated charcoal well adsorbs gases, toxins and organic compounds.

Weakly adsorb acid and alkali (including iron salts, cyanides, Methanol). It does not irritate the mucous membranes. When applied topically in the plaster increases the rate of ulcer healing.

  When it is possible to use activated carbon

Activated carbon is used for diarrhea Diarrhea (diarrhea) - a familiar nuisance , Flatulence Flatulence - when you need to worry about? , Food and drug poisoning, poisoning by salts of heavy metals, drugs and sleeping pills. If poisoning his appointed interior in the form of a slurry of 20-30 grams of powder in water. The same suspension can be carried out gastric lavage. To maximize the effect of activated charcoal is recommended to be administered immediately after exposure or within the first hours.

When gases in the intestines, as well as in combination with acidity flatulence charcoal administered in tablets of 0, 5 g (1-3 tablets 3-4 times daily). Tablets are more convenient to use, but have a lower absorbent capacity, as they contain fillers (starch, gelatin, sugar syrup).

Activated carbon is also used in allergic processes for removing allergens from the body (skin and food allergy, bronchial asthma).

On what makes activated carbon

Activated charcoal is effective in acute poisoning, especially in cases of poisoning by barbiturates, glutetimid, theophylline.

Indications for its use are also diarrhea of ​​any origin (including intestinal infection), digestive disorders that accompany the process of putrefaction and fermentation in the stomach, food poisoning, poisoning by chemicals and drugs, bloating, gastric hyperacidity, allergic diseases, burn disease , severe liver disease and kidney dysfunction of these organs, poisoning chemicals.

Activated carbon is also used to reduce the gas formation in preparation for radiological and endoscopic examinations of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space.

Activated carbon and fat

In recent years, it became fashionable obesity treatment with activated charcoal, even the common opinion that the latter burns fat. It is not, activated carbon acts against fat just as for other substances, it absorbs it from the intestines and excreted. But taken with food fat is involved in the metabolic processes makes it necessary to be absorbed for the body fat-soluble vitamins. His complete lack of it can strengthen the existing violations. Therefore, the activated carbon in obesity accept only on prescription with all the indications and contraindications. Sometimes atherosclerosis prescribe short courses of activated carbon to reduce cholesterol.

Activated carbon in diabetes and gout

Activated carbon with diabetes sometimes prescribe a short course. This allows you to excrete the toxic breakdown products of proteins and fats. Just acts activated carbon to treat gout - it removes from the bowel the salt of uric acid Uric acid - a normal level?   - Urate.

Activated carbon skin

Activated carbon is often prescribed for the treatment of skin diseases. For example, activated carbon in psoriasis helps eliminate toxic metabolic products Metabolism: The basis of life of all living things Supporting the cutaneous manifestations of the disease. Activated carbon dermatitis when removed from the body decomposition products of skin tissue.

Activated carbon is often prescribed for acne, which are the cause of hormonal disorders and gastrointestinal disease. The designated physician activated carbon face displays the body of excess male hormones and toxic products, resulting from improper digestion.

Activated charcoal black dots against ingested helps because it contributes to liquefaction of sebum. Mask Carbon Face cleans the pores of the sebaceous plugs (done once a week): pound tablet coal, mixed with a tablespoon of gelatin and the same amount of milk, stir, put in a water bath Sauna and health: the benefits and harms of bath procedures , Stirring to dissolve gelatin, cool and put on clean face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with warm water.

Side effects of activated carbon are largely prolonged use. There may be constipation, diarrhea or alternating, hypovitaminosis, malabsorption of calcium, fats, proteins, vitamins, hormones, and other nutrients from the digestive tract. After oral activated charcoal stool turns black.

Acceptance of activated charcoal is contraindicated in ulcerative lesions and bleeding from the gastrointestinal atony (lack of motor activity), bowel hypersensitivity to the preparation of the patient, and while the appointment of antitoxic substances, whose action develops after suction (eg, methionine).

What can replace the activated carbon? There are other adsorbents: smekta Smecta - necessary in any medicine cabinet , Polyphepanum, polisorb, laktofiltrum, enterosgel, enteorsorb and others. Replacement of activated carbon can be even more effective than it, for example, smectite or Polyphepanum.

Activated charcoal can be taken alone only in emergency cases, to treat as any chronic processes it is taken strictly on prescription.