Brief Answer:
Please give additional information

Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query, albeit short and specific.
Please give additional information for me to assist you better:
Have you been using activated charcoal or want to use it?
If you are using. please tell me the reason you are using it for? How long have you been using it?

Which Tablets are you using? Trade name? Any other details?
Your additional details will make the discussion more fruitful.

Dr T Chandrakant


Waiting for the details.

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Brief Answer:
You may use when needed, although long term side effects are not known

Detailed Answer:
Noted your follow up well.
You are using this for digestion, gas and digestive detox. And you feel very light after having these post-meals.
To answer your question and have further discussions:
In a quantity of 1 gm per day I do not think there are any side effects.
Since it is helping, you are tempting to use it long term.

Let us discuss few more things:
Such products are needed when you have problems.
In a normal course of life if you are eating the foods and taking the beverages that suit you the most and avoiding those that cause intestinal problems and thus cause problems you do not need such supplements.
Activated charcoal helps by adsorbing that means adhering the toxins to it and passing out in stool thus making it effective. Hence should be used when needed, when you have symptoms of gases and bloating.
It also helps to get few investigations as follows if you have persistent symptoms:
Proper clinical evaluation.
Tests of stool for 3 days and if any specific problem is found to be treated by prescription based medications to get a possible cure unless you have recurrent problems.
You should also make a list of the foods and beverages (like aerated drink) that cause you the symptoms. Stop consuming such things strictly. Prevention is better than cure.
Also get an Ultrasonography to rule out gallbladder, liver and pancreas problems.

I hope this additional information helps you to understand the problems.
You are surely free to use it long term but I would suggest you to take such things only when required and take care to avoid instigating and enhancing factors.
Control of stress and anxiety if you have helps further.

Feel free to ask for further relevant queries, give feedback, write about your symptoms in details, its relations to the factors, foods and beverages.

Dr T Chandrakant.
General Surgeon.

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