Detoxification (disambiguation)

Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body.

Detoxification may also refer to:

• Detoxification (alternative medicine) is the use of diets, fasting, Saunas and enemas to assist the body's detoxification
• Alcohol detoxification is the medical treatment for alcohol dependence through the abrupt cessation of alcohol intake, often coupled with substitution of cross-tolerant drugs that have effects similar that of alcohol so as to prevent alcohol withdrawal
• Drug detoxification is the intervention in a case of physical dependence to a drug; the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome; and any of various treatments for acute drug overdose
• Heavy metal detoxification is the removal of metallic toxic substances from the body
• Chelation therapy, a from of heavy metal detoxification, is a medical technique involving the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body
• Drug metabolism, xenobiotic metabolism or xenobiotic detoxification is the process of metabolising a toxic substance into a less toxic or more easily excreted substance within a biological organism
• Environmental remediation, detoxification of environmental pollutants, is the breaking down, removal and/or cleansing of toxic substances form the environment such as after soil or water contamination.

See also

• Detoxication
• Detox (disambiguation)