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The Effects Of Orally Administered Charcoal On Intestinal Gas, Herbert J. Thompson
The Effects Of Orally Administered Charcoal On Intestinal Gas, Herbert J. Thompson
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Our primary objectives were to determine if orally administered charcoal effectively decreased intestinal gas, and relieved subjective symptoms associated with a high gas producing meal.
The adsorptive properties of charcoal for those gases usually found in intestines (CO2, H2, CH4, H2S) were first tested by placing measured samples of each gas alone with weighted samples of activated charcoal in a respirometer.
The degree of adsorption of each gas by charcoal was determined. Charcoal effectively adsorbed H2 and CO2.
A group of normal human males were fed a gas producing …