Adsorbents


Activated vegetable charcoal (fine medicinal charcoal or BCK granules). These are:

• the most effective and most highly polyvalent of adsorbents; administered preferably as a suspension in water, several minutes to 24 hours after ingestion, if possible before any emetic.
• doses:
  large animals: 25 - 500 g
  small animals: 5 - 50 g
  
  

Other adsorbents. All other adsorbents are less effective than activated charcoal and are of academic interest only:

• magnesium oxide (magnesia);
• kaolin;
• universal antidote (vegetable charcoal log; magnesia 5 g; kaolin 5 g; tannin 5 g; with water added up to 200 ml).

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