Absorbents for cleansing the body, drugs, tablets

1. How do sorbents work?
2. When are sorbents used?
3. Who are sorbents contraindicated for?
4. Sorbents for poisoning
5. Sorbents for intestinal cleansing
6. Sorbents for allergic reactions
7. Sorbents for children
8. Natural sorbents
9. Sorbents: benefits and harms

Sorbents are substances that allow you to remove various toxins from the body. Sorbents can be of natural or synthetic origin.

Sorbents include enterosorbents - absorbing substances that act only in the gastrointestinal tract and bind toxins. They do not interact with gastric and other juices and leave the body naturally. This allows you to quickly and effectively rid the body of toxic (poisonous) substances.

Filtrum is a natural enterosorbent that binds and removes alcohol, allergens, pathogenic bacteria and bacterial toxins, medications, poisons, and heavy metal salts from the body.

How do sorbents work?

Enterosorbents have direct and indirect therapeutic effects.

These drugs:

• capture poisons and substances foreign to the body that come from the external environment;
• retain digestive products formed in the intestines on their surface;
• adsorb microbial cells and the toxins they release;
• bind gases formed during fermentation or putrefactive processes;
• cleanse digestive juices that are secreted into the intestinal lumen and contain many toxins;
• mechanically irritate sensitive areas of the intestinal wall and increase peristalsis;
• help restore the normal consistency of intestinal contents;
• lead to the transformation of highly toxic substances into compounds that are safe for the body.

This effect of sorbents is accompanied by the following therapeutic effects:

• weakening the severity of allergic reactions and poisonings;
• reducing the load on the liver – the main organ of detoxification;
• restoration of normal intestinal microflora;
• stimulation of restoration of damaged mucous membrane;
• elimination of bloating;
• improving blood supply to the intestines;
• normalization of water-salt metabolism.

Over-the-counter tablets

Medicines aimed at combating alcoholism should be prescribed by a narcologist. However, there are also those that can be used in a variety of cases without serious danger. Among them:

• Glycine. It has an antidepressant effect. It is used to improve a person’s psychological state in combination with many other methods of therapy.
• Medichronal. These tablets have a detoxifying effect, stimulate metabolic processes, increase the activity of the cerebral cortex, which can improve the psycho-emotional background, relieve stress and improve sleep. In addition, Medichronal has a positive effect on liver function.
• Proprothene-100. Classified as a homeopathic medicine, it also has antidepressant properties. Allows you to achieve the required concentrations of biologically active substances in the human brain, helps reduce cravings for alcohol.

When are sorbents used?

First of all, sorbents are prescribed for food poisoning, drug poisoning, as well as when the human body is exposed to industrial poisons.

In addition, medications containing sorbents are used for:

• high acidity of gastric juice;
• flatulence;
• chronic renal failure;
• hepatitis, liver cirrhosis;
• allergic reactions;
• autoimmune diseases, incl. oncology.

Important! Sorbents must be taken separately from other medications, and the time difference between them must be at least two hours. If this rule is not followed, the therapeutic effect of taking sorbents will be sharply reduced and the absorption of medications taken simultaneously will be impaired.

Sorbents will also come in handy if you have abused alcohol. In case of alcohol poisoning, a large amount of alcohol breakdown products is present in the body, which is why the victim experiences unpleasant hangover symptoms. In such a situation, enterosorbents will help.

Sorbents are also effective for treating diseases caused by parasites, such as worms, lamblia or salmonella.

Finally, sorbents are used to enhance immunity.

Doctors advise conducting short courses of prevention using sorbents several times a year.

If you take sorbents as the main means of treatment, then you must simultaneously take probiotics and vitamin and mineral complexes. Your doctor will prescribe the exact course of treatment for you.

general information

In the process of life, various types of harmful compounds accumulate in our body, for example, toxins or waste products , which should be periodically gotten rid of in order to maintain good health and well-being. For these purposes, special adsorbents or absorbent preparations are used to cleanse the body, which are able to absorb toxic substances and safely remove them.
Such medicines will be indispensable for intestinal poisoning, as well as for alcohol or drug intoxication. They quickly neutralize harmful chemical compounds and alleviate the human condition.

Sorbents for poisoning

If you have suffered from poisoning, it is important to rid your body of toxic substances as soon as possible. This illness can affect anyone, so it is imperative to have sorbent preparations in your home medicine cabinet. When choosing a drug, pay attention to such characteristics of its action as:

1. pronounced sorption (absorbing) ability.
2. safety of use: sorbents should not enter the bloodstream and should be quickly eliminated from the body.

Sorbents for intestinal cleansing

Intestinal intoxication is manifested by such signs as bad breath, increased sweating, rash, white coating on the tongue, nausea, vomiting, bloating, flatulence.

Important! It is recommended to take sorbents an hour before meals or an hour after meals. The exception is situations when it is necessary to urgently remove toxins from the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, the sorbent should be taken 20 minutes before meals or immediately after you feel the symptoms of poisoning.

Sorbents for allergic reactions

If an allergy is diagnosed, the doctor will recommend a diet that is right for you and involves gradually adding to the diet a product that causes an allergic reaction. If the body again rejects the allergen, the doctor reviews the diet.

If you have allergies, your doctor may prescribe a sorbent as a component of complex treatment, along with antihistamines. Severe allergic reactions are treated in a hospital, where the patient is prescribed antihistamines, anti-inflammatory drugs, and hormonal drugs.

Sorbents for children

Sorbents can also be used to cleanse a child’s body, but they can only be used by children as prescribed by a doctor.

Not all medications containing sorbents are suitable for children. One of the few universal remedies is the drug "Filtrum", which is approved for children under one year of age.

"Filtrum" is prescribed for poisoning and infectious diseases of the intestines, such as salmonellosis or dysentery. The tablets are crushed to powder before use. Babies under one year old should be given half a tablet per dose, children from 1 to 7 years old should be given one tablet per dose, and older children should be given 1-2 tablets per dose. The number of appointments per day is no more than four.

Sorbents are also used for allergic reactions in children, as they help rid the body of the effects of the allergen. In this case, the indications for use in children coincide with the indications for adults.

Important: before use, read the instructions or consult your doctor.

Treatment of intestinal infection: nothing more!

In summer, the problem of poisoning becomes more pressing than ever - the heat creates favorable conditions for the proliferation of pathogens. What medications really help get out of an unpleasant condition with minimal consequences?

To have a clear idea of ​​how medications work (or don’t work) in case of poisoning, you need to understand what happens to the poisoned body. In the vast majority of cases, bacteria, and even more so parasites, have absolutely nothing to do with it!

Basically, intestinal infection develops against the background of infection with viruses: they are responsible for 70% of cases of infectious diarrhea in children and almost 90% in adults.

The penetration of intestinal pathogens into the body is accompanied by the release of a large amount of toxins, which cause characteristic symptoms. In this case, the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines becomes inflamed - gastroenteritis develops.

However, despite the sometimes painful manifestations of poisoning, its causative agents are doomed: all intestinal infections are self-limiting, that is, the bacteria or viruses that caused them die not because they are affected by drugs, but because this is how nature intended. In this regard, almost any intestinal infection is akin to ARVI - treat it, don’t treat it, but you will still recover no earlier than the pathogen reaches the end of its development. And, fortunately, his life is short-lived: within 1–7 days after the manifestation of the disease, as a rule, recovery occurs.

We are used to swallowing handfuls of pills with or without reason. In case of poisoning, including. But not all drugs that we consider irreplaceable and vital are really needed. Let's remember everyone by name.

Regulators of water and electrolyte balance

The drugs in this group head the short list of drugs that are really necessary for poisoning. These include combinations of dextrose, potassium and sodium chloride, sodium citrate (Regidron, Trihydron, Hydrovit).

Diarrhea and vomiting, the main companions of intestinal infection, contribute to fluid loss and disruption of the acid-base balance in the body. This is the main danger of poisoning, which, if the resulting deficiency is inadequately replenished, leads to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Therefore, treatment should primarily be aimed at quickly restoring reserves.

The formula for success is simple: how much fluid you lost through vomiting and diarrhea, so much should be absorbed into the body with medications or, in extreme cases, with medicinal mineral water (of course, without gas). In cases where it is not possible to take rehydrants orally, intravenous drip administration of liquid, i.e., a dropper, is necessary.

Antidiarrheal drugs

Soviet and post-Soviet medicine is often aimed at a fierce fight against the symptoms of diseases, often regardless of whether this fight is beneficial for the body. Temperature? Antipyretic, despite the fact that this reduces the production of interferon and the immune response. Diarrhea? Antidiarrheal, despite the excretion of many toxins with feces.

Modern tactics for managing patients with acute intestinal infections are aimed at a conscious approach to symptom relief:

• If diarrhea is not accompanied by dehydration, it is much healthier to endure it than to stop it.
• If the problem becomes threatening and fluid loss cannot be restored with the help of medications, you still cannot do without antidiarrheal drugs.

The classic antidiarrheal drug is loperamide, which slows down intestinal motility and increases the transit time of intestinal contents. In addition, dioctahedral smectite has an antidiarrheal effect.

Adsorbents

The need to take adsorbents for intestinal infections is not entirely clear. Theoretically, adsorbents (activated carbon, pectin, dioctahedral smectite, etc.) bind toxins, preventing them from attaching to intestinal membranes.

However, for the drugs to work, they must enter the body before the toxins attach to the mucous membrane, which is not always possible to achieve in practice. And even if adsorbents are introduced on time, they, alas, do not prevent dehydration of the body, although they reduce the frequency of stool.

Probiotics

The use of drugs containing beneficial bacteria is aimed at restoring intestinal microflora. Research shows that they can indeed normalize its composition. However, of the entire considerable range, only products containing Lactobacillus casei GG (included in some dietary supplements, for example, Maxilak, Yogulakt) or Saccharomyces boulardii (Enterol) have a full-fledged evidence base. Their administration helps reduce the intensity of diarrhea and improve the condition of patients.

Antibacterial

Drugs that exhibit an antibacterial effect only work in cases of bacterial infection. In case of poisoning caused by viruses, they are useless, and it is these pathogens that most often become the cause of the disease.

It is sometimes possible to distinguish between a viral and bacterial infection by clinical manifestations. So, the first is more often accompanied by headache, muscle pain, weakness and fatigue, and the second is characterized by the appearance of blood in the stool. But most often it is almost impossible to clearly differentiate the two types of poisoning.

However, even when infected with bacteria, the advisability of taking antibacterial agents is questionable: after all, as we have already said, a few days after the manifestation of the disease, self-recovery occurs.

The exception is severe infections accompanied by high fever, blood in the stool, or dehydration, but in such situations the doctor must make the decision. By the way, in such cases hospitalization may be necessary.

Thus, from the long list of drugs that we consider almost a panacea for poisoning, we can limit ourselves to only two or three, or even just one drug - rehydrant. In this case, the treatment effect will be the same as when taking handfuls of tablets, but there will definitely be much fewer side effects. Which path to choose is up to you, because in the end your health is in your hands.

Marina Pozdeeva

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Natural sorbents

Medicines contain sorbents of natural and synthetic origin. Natural sorbents can also be used in their natural form. Most often, sorbents of natural origin are found in plants. For example, pectins have a high absorption capacity, the fibers of which, when they enter the gastrointestinal tract, swell and release a gel-like substance. Pectins allow you to remove excess water, as well as heavy metals (mercury, lead and strontium), and bind excess cholesterol in the intestines, which helps fight atherosclerosis.

Pectins are found in seaweed, apples, citrus fruits, raspberries, and strawberries. They are also rich in cereals (buckwheat, oatmeal) and some vegetables, including beets, carrots and cabbage.

A number of other natural sorbents with pronounced medicinal properties are also known:

1. Plant fiber - allowed for long-term use.
2. Chitin - helps cleanse the body of cholesterol and fatty acids. This sorbent is often recommended for those who are on a diet, suffer from diabetes and atherosclerosis, as well as those who plan to take part in a lavish feast.
3. Cellulose - helps reduce cholesterol and sugar levels, fight excess weight. Promotes the growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines and improves digestion. With prolonged use of Cellulose, addiction develops, so the dosage is gradually increased. Remember that cellulose and chitin can only be taken separately from each other.

Adjuvant therapy

When recovering from a drunken state, great attention is paid to stabilizing the functioning of internal organs.

In this case, the following may be prescribed:

• Pharmaceuticals containing sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium - these minerals are necessary for the functioning of internal organs, and with prolonged alcoholism, their deficiency occurs. A prominent representative of this group’s means of breaking up binge drinking is Methusol. Administered intravenously, it has a rehydrating, diuretic, detoxifying, and antioxidant effect. With its help, rapid replenishment of circulating blood volume during hypovolemia is achieved, blood viscosity is reduced, its rheological properties are improved, and tissue dehydration is prevented. Exhibits a hemodynamic effect, promotes cell adaptation to lack of oxygen.
• Hepatoprotectors necessary for the protection and restoration of liver cells. This can be Heptral, Essentially, administered intravenously. An excellent effect is provided by Remaxol®, containing succinic acid, meglumine, riboxin, methionine, nicotinamide, sodium, potassium, magnesium chlorides, sodium hydroxide. It reduces bilirubin, improves the release of direct bilirubin into bile and the oxidation of cholesterol.
• Nootropics – improve brain function. The most commonly administered drug is Piracetam.

Sorbents: benefits and harms

It is important to remember that sorbents not only provide benefits, but can also have some negative effects. Along with toxins, they are able to remove beneficial substances from the body. True, in case of serious disorders of the body, such a side effect is much less important than the real benefits that sorbents bring.

To summarize, we can say that thanks to sorbents, we help our body more effectively get rid of accumulated toxins, allergens and other harmful substances.

Activated carbon

This absorbent can be considered the most universal medicine. Every person has it in their first aid kit, because... has a wide range of applications.

Activated carbon

In the process of obtaining this drug, natural carbon-containing raw materials (charcoal) are used.

It has pronounced enterosorbing, antidiarrheal, and detoxification properties.

Activated carbon absorbs well and removes from the gastrointestinal tract:

• poisons;
• barbiturates;
• glycosides;
• alkaloids;
• plant, animal and bacterial toxins;
• salts of heavy metals;
• drug breakdown products;
• gases;
• derivatives of hydrocyanic acid and phenol;
• sulfonamides.

Its microporous structure attracts negative ions of toxic compounds and holds them in the crystal lattice, thereby preventing them from entering the bloodstream.

The drug is effective for:

• intoxication (food, alcohol, etc.);
• increased flatulence ;
• bloating;
• dyspepsia (indigestion);
• diarrhea;
• atopic dermatitis or bronchial asthma of allergic origin;
• decreased secretion of hydrochloric acid, which is part of the gastric juice.

Activated carbon is also prescribed to eliminate the effects of rotting and fermentation processes in the intestines. This drug helps with liver cirrhosis , salmonellosis , chronic and viral hepatitis , kidney failure and dysentery . In addition, the absorbent is used in preparatory activities before conducting an ultrasound examination or x-ray of the gastrointestinal tract.

Contraindications:

• individual intolerance;
• exacerbation of duodenal or gastric ;
• tendency to constipation ;
• atony , obstruction or bleeding in the intestine;
• hemorrhoids;
• taking other types of sorbent compounds or antitoxic drugs.

Side effects:

• exhaustion of the body , because the drug removes not only toxic, but also beneficial compounds;
• dehydration , constipation , liver damage and worsening intoxication while taking the absorbent are possible, because it absorbs a large amount of liquid.

Preparations - analogues, which include activated carbon:

• Karbolen;
• Sorbex;
• Carbactin;
• Carbolong.