“She called me back last night and said she didn’t take the aspirin mostly because she was taking an anti-inflammatory for a stress fracture in her foot. That made more sense. Like I said, her brain wasn’t functioning like normal while she was sick.”
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Aspirin has antiplatelet properties much more profound than those of other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen and naproxen, and these agents were originally marketed as not having the bleeding effects produced by aspirin. The anti-platelet effect of aspirin can be produced by a low dose (baby aspirin) that does not produce anti-inflammatory effects. The effect on platelets is irreversible and requires platelet turnover (make new platelets), which is about 5 days.
Yes, the Frontline doctors were recommending the full aspirin dosage, not the baby aspirin. I take the baby aspirin as needed for the heart thing but keep the full strength in my covid toolbox for covid. When Delta was going around, the real doctors, not the government covid doctors, were recommending not taking Ibuprofen but to take aspirin instead. No matter what seemed to work, the media demonized it and said to do something else. It’s a wonder any of us have made it out alive, so far.