How does activated charcoal help against ingested poison?
In: Chemistry
I’m just gonna sum up my story with this. So when I was 14 I used to be on Lexapro (antidepressant). And I got into a very heated fight with my parents. I got really pissed and I grabbed the bottle. I dumped all the pills into my mouth and swallowed all of them. It was a pretty new script so I took more than 20. I went to the hospital, but by then they couldn’t really do anything because the pills were absorbed. My mom was with me and it just so happens that she’s a nurse at that hospital. She was pissed too and she was hoping that I’d be forced to puke or something uncomfortable like that. Then she says to one of the nurses “Maybe we should give him some charcoal.” So then the nurse brings me this big ass cup filled with an activated charcoal drink. I had to drink all of it. It was pitch black and it had the thickness of a milkshake. The taste was almost sweet, but not really. Somehow it wasn’t even bad and I actually kind of liked it. Then for like the next 2 weeks my shit was pitch black when I wiped 😂
But I have the answer to the question though. The charcoal drink is pretty heavy and thick like a milkshake. It absorbs whatever is in your stomach. For example, in my case the charcoal was supposed to absorb the Lexapro so less of it would be absorbed into my blood stream.
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