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This is also sometimes called "baby aspirin".[0] I remember a conversation with a doctor where I casually mentioned that baby aspirin must have been created fo

This is also sometimes called "baby aspirin".[0] I remember a conversation with a doctor where I casually mentioned that baby aspirin must have been created for babies, he was slightly aghast and and said no, you do not want to give it to babies! [0]https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/low-dose-aspirin/who-can-and-cannot-take-low-dose-aspirin/ https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/low-dose-aspirin/who-can-and-ca...

wombatpm 3y ago
You don't want to now, but they did. I remember taking aspirin as a child. Johnsons Baby Aspirin - it dissolved in your mouth and had a slight orange flavor.
- analog31 3y ago
  Oddly enough, my mom never wanted us to associate medicines with candy, so my brothers and I were given a portion of an adult pill and told to chew it up. Aspirin was bitter, but Tylenol was worse.
  - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
    Brutal, but effective I suppose. Hopefully she never had to give you anything time released! You do not want to chew them if you plan for them to work in their properly metered delivery. Fun fact, OxyContin was deemed "impossible to become addicted to" because it incorporated a time-released design that everyone just started chewing up anyway.
    - analog31 3y ago
      Good point, I hadn't thought of that. "Back in my day," there were no time release medicines that I'm aware of. When caring for kids of my own, the kiddie medicines were mostly liquids.
      - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
        My son hated liquid medicines and quickly learned to be able to take pills instead. It's honestly so convenient that way though.
    - daniel-cussen 3y ago
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- MandieD 3y ago
  I remember enjoying those as a kid - I even chewed a few without my parents knowing! In the early 80s, a lot of over-the-counter medication bottles still had minimal to no child-proofing.
  - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
    Child-proofing or any safety, really. It wasn't until the Chicago Tylenol Murders[1] that they put tamper evident packaging into use. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
    - euroderf 3y ago
      That was one incident that impacted just about every single item you find in the supermarket or drug store. Before that, nobody bothered with inner peel-away caps. Now everything has it. Ketchup has it.
      - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
        It's kind of mind boggling to me that it took until 1982 for that change to be made. It also makes me wonder how many more poisonings might have slipped under the radar for the same reason...
- euroderf 3y ago
  St. Joseph's Aspirin for Children
  - wombatpm 3y ago
    That’s it!
dreamcompiler 3y ago
Baby aspirin absolutely was created for babies. Modern doctors are mostly too young to remember that 81mg aspirin was commonly given to babies before the discovery in the 1980s that it was associated with Reye Syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome
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wombatpm 3y ago

You don't want to now, but they did. I remember taking aspirin as a child. Johnsons Baby Aspirin - it dissolved in your mouth and had a slight orange flavor.

analog31 3y ago
Oddly enough, my mom never wanted us to associate medicines with candy, so my brothers and I were given a portion of an adult pill and told to chew it up. Aspirin was bitter, but Tylenol was worse.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  Brutal, but effective I suppose. Hopefully she never had to give you anything time released! You do not want to chew them if you plan for them to work in their properly metered delivery. Fun fact, OxyContin was deemed "impossible to become addicted to" because it incorporated a time-released design that everyone just started chewing up anyway.
  - analog31 3y ago
    Good point, I hadn't thought of that. "Back in my day," there were no time release medicines that I'm aware of. When caring for kids of my own, the kiddie medicines were mostly liquids.
    - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
      My son hated liquid medicines and quickly learned to be able to take pills instead. It's honestly so convenient that way though.
  - daniel-cussen 3y ago
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MandieD 3y ago
I remember enjoying those as a kid - I even chewed a few without my parents knowing! In the early 80s, a lot of over-the-counter medication bottles still had minimal to no child-proofing.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  Child-proofing or any safety, really. It wasn't until the Chicago Tylenol Murders[1] that they put tamper evident packaging into use. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
  - euroderf 3y ago
    That was one incident that impacted just about every single item you find in the supermarket or drug store. Before that, nobody bothered with inner peel-away caps. Now everything has it. Ketchup has it.
    - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
      It's kind of mind boggling to me that it took until 1982 for that change to be made. It also makes me wonder how many more poisonings might have slipped under the radar for the same reason...
euroderf 3y ago
St. Joseph's Aspirin for Children
- wombatpm 3y ago
  That’s it!

dreamcompiler 3y ago

Baby aspirin absolutely was created for babies. Modern doctors are mostly too young to remember that 81mg aspirin was commonly given to babies before the discovery in the 1980s that it was associated with Reye Syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome

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