Activated charcoal: attn: Calluna

[redbird]

There's a thread on ML right now about poisons, and I asked where to get activated charcoal. Macdonald's answer is online, and he passed along a google search on the brand his EMT team uses, which is called Actidose. http://www.google.com/products?q=actidose&btnG=Search+Products&hl=en&show=dd

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I saw the post and had a flickering thought of mentioning that I'd gone on a store-to-store hunt looking for activated charcoal and failing to find it, but didn't have the energy.

Also, since I assume that Jim MacDonald knows his stuff, I'm now confused. Traditionally, you give charcoal in cases in which you do not want to induce vomiting: if you can't get the stuff the hell out of the stomach until the people with special equipment arrive, then the poison control center, so I was led to believe, would recommend charcoal, which would absorb and lock up whatever it encountered, hopefully including your toxin. But JMcD says it will induce vomiting quite often all on its own, hence the slit trashbag, etc.. I don't know if it's just so good at locking up the toxins that by that point it's okay for the person to vomit, or what.

Anyhow. I'll go and look at the thread again at some point. Thanks for thinking of me and for asking.