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Acting as an anti-coagulat is a recently-recognized minor side effect of a medicine that's been a recognized analgesic and anti-inflammatory for millennia. If
by bregma 5y ago
Acting as an anti-coagulat is a recently-recognized minor side effect of a medicine that's been a recognized analgesic and anti-inflammatory for millennia.
If you're still a kid ASA is not recommended as an anti-fever medication because of the risk of Reye's syndrome. Perhaps that's why no one you know uses it. Perhaps it's because the patent on it expired a century ago (a result of war reparations, no less) and drug companies find it more lucrative to push their alternatives.
- vultour 5y agoBoth paracetamol and ibuprofen are sold as generic medicines, so I really don't think being lucrative is the reason. I had a quick look through some pain relief pages on the UK's NHS website, and every time a drug is referenced by name it's either paracetamol or ibuprofen. I've first seen people randomly using aspirin on US television shows, so perhaps it's just less common elsewhere.