[madison10]

Recently heard that aspirin made the Spanish flu outcome much worse.

(Gonna lay off the aspirin and ibuprofen for awhile)

[little jeremiah]

That’s right - I remember reading that. I never take any of those anyway, I use herbs.

BTW you or someone else might be interested in some of the info on this thread, topics vary widely, yesterday I reposted a bunch of info about dealing with respiratory ailments. I copied part of the article about anti-inflammatories there.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3735908/posts?page=696
Natural Health

[mdmathis6]

It caused a lot of bleeding and tissue toxicity/metabolic acidosis because aspirin was new and people were overdosing on it. It took some time to get the dosages straight. Subsequent flu outbreaks were treated with aspirin for fevers but the dosing was standardized and corrected and it worked very well. Unfortunately it does seem to precipitate gillian-barre’ in kids 12 years or young who took the med when they had the flu or other viruses. A lot of doctors credited aspirin with saving a lot of lives in the first 7 decades of the 20th century but Tylenol was deemed far safer, especially when gillian-barre’ started showing up in youngsters.

[fr_freak]

Recently heard that aspirin made the Spanish flu outcome much worse.

My layman's understanding is that people were massively overdosing on aspirin - literally taking handfuls per day. Regardless of whether they had the flu or not, they would have had medical issues from that.