Charcoal Dosing

[JenniferG]

Does anyone here use charcoal? If so, how?

 

Meg has C Diff. and is having die off. She is 9 years old and 56lbs. The bottle of charcoal says not for children. it is Activated Charcoal 260mg (4gr)

 

Thank you for your help.

[LNN]

Here's an article from 2010 that may help. http://www.alsearsmd.com/activated-charcoal-detox-every-er-carries-this-miracle-powder/ This article supports using a lot of it. But from a practical standpoint, we always used much less.

 

We don't use it regularly, but when we've used it for herxing, we usually used 5-6 pills @260mg.ea with a good amount of water(away from abx). Keep an eye on frequency and consistency of stools. Charcoal can be binding, tho we always found it to move things along. It may change the stool color to a greenish or dark color. Sorry if TMI but wanted to let you know that's normal.