Charcoal Pregnancy and Breast Feeding Warnings

Charcoal is also known as: Actidose-Aqua, Actidose-Aqua Advance, Activated Charcoal, Active Carbon, Carbomix, Carbosorb X, Charcoaid, Charcoaid 2000, Charcoaid-G, Charcoal Plus DS, Charcocaps, Charcodote, Charcotabs, Charcotrace, Chem Mart Nasal Decongestant Capsule, Eucarbon, EZ Char, EZChar, Healthstream Activated Charcoal, Insta-Char, JL Bragg's Medicinal Charcoal, Karbons, Liqui-Char, Medicoal, Norit, Optimum Charcoal, Pharmacia Carbosorb

Overview

If you become pregnant while taking Charcoal Activated , discuss with your doctor the benefits and risks of using Charcoal Activated during pregnancy. It is unknown if Charcoal Activated is excreted in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you are using Charcoal Activated , check with your doctor or pharmacist to discuss the risks to your baby.

Charcoal Pregnancy Warnings

Charcoal has not been formally assigned to a pregnancy category by the FDA. No animal or human reproductive or fetotoxicity studies have been done. There appears to be no apparent toxicity associated with therapeutic dosages of activated charcoal administered once or for short periods of time.

Charcoal Lactation Warnings

There are no data on the excretion of charcoal into human milk. However, adverse effects to the nursing infant are not anticipated since charcoal is not absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract.

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