Activated Charcoal, dosing

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> Do you have any information about what dose of activated charcoal

to give, how often, with or without food, etc?

I found this site: http://www.aactox.org/Pos_Statements/Charcoal.html

it seems you may need to play around with the dose a little, and

check around for other guidelines. This is a started though. .

Dosage Regimen

The optimal dose of activated charcoal for poisoned patients is

unknown, though available data imply a dose-response relationship

that favors larger doses.

Data derived from animal and human volunteer studies have little

relevance to the clinical situation because these experimental

studies were performed in fasting animals and human subjects who

ingested a known quantity of drug.

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP DI, 1997) recommends the

following oral dosage regimen.

Children up to one year of age:1 g/kg

Children 1 to 12 years of age:25 to 50 g

Adolescents and adults:25 to 100 g

Constipation has not been observed after the administration of a

single dose of activated charcoal.