1. Watch Out for Hidden Animal Products. When you order food in a Chinese restaurant, you canât just assume that the General Tsoâs Tofu or Vegetable Lo Mein is vegan. Many restaurants use chicken broth or fish broth in most of their sauces and soups, even the tofu and veggie dishes and vegetable soups. Restaurants may have one homemade stock that they use and it often contains animal products. Some Chinese dishes, like lo mein, often have egg in them. I ate steamed veggie dumplings a lot before I realized I should ask about the dumpling wrappers and to my despair, they did have egg in them. Most wrappers for dumplings and spring rolls do. Another time, I ordered a vegetable dish only to receive shrimp.
Common side effects of activated charcoal include nausea, vomiting and constipation, Drugs.com states. Other side effects include bowel obstruction, black-colored stool and a chalk-like taste have also been reported.
More recently, activated charcoal has been used to treat toxic ingestions and continues to be a form of gastrointestinal (GI) decontamination for poisoned patientsâboth human and animal.1,2 But now this use has largely declined in human medicine in favor of other treatment modalities (e.g. hemodialysis, plasmapheresis).