Overview
Activated carbon - the most accessible and popular enterosorbent in the CIS countries. Each coal tablet contains a plurality of pores of different diameters, in which fall toxins and excess gases from the gastrointestinal tract. That is why Activated carbon is often used as a first aid for poisoning and severe hangover.
As well as activated carbon, is Filtrum enterosorbent with high surface activity. Both drugs are not toxic and their active ingredients are completely natural.
Active substance
Filtrum different from the activated carbon its active ingredient: at Filtrum is lignin, at coal - carbon with fine pores. Lignin is a natural substance found in the plant cells. Lignin is a dietary fiber necessary for a person of normal bowel function. Lignin acts as an effective component not only Filtrum, but also its numerous analogues - laktofiltrum, Polyphepan, Lingosorba and Liferana.
Activated charcoal tablets contain solely carbon, obtained with the baking timber or the processing of coke. The composition filtrum tablets, besides lignin, containing a small amount of auxiliary substances - povidone and calcium stearate. Povidone, as lignin, binds to toxin present in the body, and the calcium stearate is used as a thickener.
Indications
The main indications for use Filtrum and activated carbon are:
- food poisoning;
- Alcohol and drug intoxication;
- poisoning by heavy metal salts;
- Gastrointestinal infections.
And Filtrum, and coal are able to hold their small pores toxins and poisons. Pores filtrum thus considerably narrower, and sorption capacity is higher, because the spectrum of application of the drug greater than the activated carbon. Filtrum indicated for allergic reactions and for the prevention of toxic chemical industry workers.
This drug is given and hyperbilirubinemia - the development of high amounts of bilirubin. It is a pathological condition occurs when Gilbert's syndrome and disease gospel. Filtrum has the property of excess bilirubin output from the body, unlike activated carbon therefore widely used to normalize its concentration.
Filtrum effective in another metabolic disorders - hyperasotemia. This condition is characterized by an increased concentration in the blood of nitrogen-containing products. It develops, usually due to liver pathologies, renal or biliary tract. Filtrum, due to the small pore diameter, connects the nitrogen-containing compounds prior to their exit from the body.
Dosage
The difference between the activated carbon and Filtrum consists in the dosage. The amount of coal is determined solely on the basis of body weight (1 tablet per 10 kg body weight), while the dose is determined filtrum patient age. Children under 12 years old are encouraged to take at a time no more than two tablets of the drug, an adult - no more than three. If poisoning and allergies sorbent taken 3 times a day for 2 hours before eating.
Filtrum, due to the greater sorption capacity, eliminate toxins more efficiently than coal, so treatment requires smaller doses of the drug.
Contraindications
Absolute contraindication to receiving Filtrum is an idiosyncrasy that in medical practice is extremely rare. In the case of allergy to lignin prescribed for detoxification coal instead Filtrum.
Patients with duodenal ulcer or gastrointestinal bleeding Activated charcoal is contraindicated drink. Filtrum considered more gentle enterosorbent because, unlike coal, contains fine abrasive particles. Therefore, it can be taken even with such severe clinical conditions, however, before using best to consult a gastroenterologist and to clarify the dosage.
Sometimes, in cases of poisoning, for the rapid elimination of unpleasant symptoms, people take several sorbents immediately, in particular activated charcoal together with Filtrum. Doing this is not necessary, since the pores get silicon lignin fiber and toxins will remain in the intestine.
Side effects
Activated carbon is not toxic and side effects of its reception are extremely rare. Usually they occur in the reusable exceeded the recommended dosages or prolonged uncontrolled dosing. To the negative side effects of coal applications include: constipation or diarrhea, goiter, nausea, avitaminosis. Therefore, doctors advise taking a means of more than two consecutive weeks.
Filtrum generally well tolerated by patients. Side effects sometimes associated with chronic administration of the drug (more than 21 consecutive days) and include constipation, beriberi, impaired absorption of calcium.
As Filtrum and Activated charcoal reduces the clinical effect of drugs taken simultaneously.
Price
We conclude comparison filtrum Activated charcoal and price range. Both drugs are inexpensive. The average price of a blister with ten tablets Filtrum drug is $ 100, and 10 tablets Activated would cost even cheaper - up to 8 rubles.
conclusion
Filtrum and Activated carbon - chelators of natural origin that are different active substance, but have a similar principle.
The main advantages of Activated charcoal may include:
- low cost;
- extremely low probability of an allergic reaction.
The disadvantages:
- gastric ulcer and bleeding are absolute contraindications to receive the drug;
- the need to take a lot of pills for 1 times;
- the need to know exactly what weight to calculate the dose of the drug.
Filtrum such deficiencies has not. It does not irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach and is allowed even in the most acute clinical conditions. A single dose of the drug is not dependent on the mass, and is determined only by the age of the patient. Filtrum further advantage consists in the fact that it normalizes the concentration of bilirubin and nitrogen containing compounds. Filtrum and effective as a means for preventing intoxication.
Compared with the activated carbon, Filtrum has the following disadvantages:
- the cost is higher;
- more common allergic reactions.
Coal and Filtrum equally reduce the effectiveness of medications taken by patients inside simultaneously with them, but this disadvantage is typical for all modern enterosorbents. Both of these drugs are not toxic, they can be taken during pregnancy, and even children under one year. Side effects are extremely rare.
sources:
Vidal: https://www.vidal.ru/drugs/activated_charcoal__23846
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