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Activated charcoal for food poisoning, what to do?
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It's not really: Known to be effective for "food poisoning". It's more so used for toxic ingestions like overdose ingestion of phenobarbital. It's only anecdotally used for classic "food poisoning". I would consider just avoiding it.
Answered 1/31/2015
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