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Anti-Inflammatories
Anti-inflammatory pertains to the property of a substance that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory qualities can be found in some drugs, food and herbs. Anti-inflammatory effect is experienced by applying ice or cool water on the swelling body part.
1,499 Questions
Can you mix aspirin and panadol?
Answer: No, you can't. I highly doubt a doctor would tell you to take both anyways. Remember to take the recommended dose of one or the other and you should be fine. NEW ANSWER: The above answer is absolutely wrong! It is fine to mix Ibuprofen and paracetamol, however, you would be better advised to take the two at differing times. For instance, 3 times each a day, allowing you to take pain relief 6 times a day.
If you stop taking ibuprofen 48 hours prior to surgery are you okay?
Yes, it's better than if you didn't stop using it at all that is. BUT, I've had numerous procedures and they tell me 5 days is the magic number for some reason. It is a blood thinner and they don't want people bleeding during surgery for sure...so check with your doc or a nurse to see if 48 hours is ok to be sure.
Diane :)
so you're 15 and you're worried of a heart attack? you took aspirin to thin your blood to stop it and now you think the aspirin affected your red blood cells and not just your platelets... nice.
judging by your spelling of the word "anaemia" you're American, which i think gives you something like a 30% chance of being obese, sorry if my statistics are slightly out. to reduce your risk of heart attack, youd be much better off eating less saturated fats and doing some exercise.
aspirin doesnt affect your haemoglobin, so you didnt get anaemia from aspirin. if you have got it, eat more iron.
don't take drugs without consulting your doctor first. the chance of a heart attack at 15 is pretty small if i recall correctly.
oh, by the way, you're supposed to ingest aspirin. if you did indeed smoke it with weed as "toke" suggests you did, i would advise not to do that in the future. mixing drugs isn't good, and marijuana is illegal. unless you're from the Netherlands.
A simple blood test to determine iron and other substances in the blood will help diagnose the presence of anemia.
Cortal is aspirin which is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and is used for pain.
Overdosage with "Cortal ®" can cause delayed labor, liver and heart damage for your baby, and liver damage to you. It does not end pregnancy.
What is different between warfarin heparin aspirin?
All 3 medications work in one way or another to prevent blood clot formation, some in the ARTERIES (high-pressure blood vessels), some in the VEINS (low-pressure blood vessels). Clotting is like fire or water, too much of it at the right time or some of it at the wrong time might be disastrous. For clotting to occur (thus preventing one bleeds to death) you basically need 2 ingredients (I'm grossly oversimplifying):
1) platelets and
2) coagulation factors (aka "the coagulation cascade", which I will refer to a few times during my explanation).
1) ASPIRIN: I will start with aspirin first, since you can get it over the counter and it's probably most commonly known. Aspirin inhibits platelet aggregation by inhibiting the production of thromboxane A2 (I'm oversimplifying).
There's a myth that aspirin can help you reduce the chance of developing a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) during a long flight (travel does not necessarily need to be by air, it could be by any other means; actually, it's prolonged immobility --stagnant blood-- which increases the risk of DVT). Aspirin is taken by many to reduce the risk of developing heart attacks and strokes, but these events happen if ARTERIES (not VEINS) are clogged, therefore aspirin hasn't shown to decrease DVT risk.
2) HEPARIN and WARFARIN: I will comment on both of these together, since they both affect the "coagulation cascade" and therefore are quite similar in their mode of action.
HEPARIN inactivates coagulation factor Xa in the coagulation cascade, therefore inhibiting conversion of pro-thrombin to thrombin. At higher doses, heparin will also inactivate factors IX, X, XI and XII and II, therefore inhibiting conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin. I believe heparin tends to affect more the "intrinsic pathway" of the coagulation cascade.
WARFARIN (originally and still used --in the right amount and presentation-- as a rat "bleeder" poison) interferes with hepatic (liver) synthesis of vitamin k- dependent clotting factors II, VIII, IX and X. Thus, people who suffer from liver disease, may be prone to bleeding easily. Conversely, if you eat too many vitamin k-containing foods while on warfarin, you may counteract the medication's efficacy. Warfarin tends to affect more the "extrinsic pathway" of the coagulation cascade.
I hope this helps. And, please, if there are any errors on my explanation, do point them out!
Is benzydamine hydrochloride a steroid?
No, that's why it's called a NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug).
Sorry, is there something I am missing here? How do you but one WHAT?
The only drug I know that is available in Germany and no other European country is Boehringer-Ingelheim's DICODID, 10mg tablets used as a prophylactic for a chronic, severe, hacking and painful cough. When mixed with 180-325mg paracetamol, this drug, known in the USA as 'hydrocodone' but whose approved name is dihydrocodeineone, becomes a mild opiate analgesic suitable for mild to moderate pain.
If that's what you mean, then let ME know where I can buy a supply, because I have been looking for five years since my old supplier, Easypharms, closed down. Apparently now the German health authorities have reclassified Dicodid as a 'narcotic' making it more difficult to access. Shame, it's the best antitussive in the world, and certainly helps my chronic back pain. Not nearly as strongly as OXYCODONE but better than its parent drug, dihydrocodeine. Kills the two birds with one stone if yiu add about 250-300mg paracetamol into the mix. I would be delighted to be able to get a monthly supply, or a three month supply, 270 tablets, which would work out cheaper since it's not so expensive in packs of 100 than the usual 30s, and there is nothing in EU Law to prevent me from getting a supply of up to 90 days' worth. More than that would require export and import licences, 90 days or less only needs either a letter from the doctor or a photocopy of the actual prescription. This applies to all medicines moved within the EU.
Yes, your contraceptive pill will be just as effective when taking Ibuprofen. The only medecines which can cause contraceptive faliure with Microgynon 30 are: * Antibiotics (such as ampicillin and rifampicin) * Griseofulvin (Used to treat fungal infections) * Phenylbutazone (An anti-inflammatory drug used to treat some types of joint diseases) * Phenytoin, Primidon, Phenobarbiton and some other medicines used to treat people with epilepsy such as carbamezepine. Hope this helps. The leaflet inside your box of pills will also inform you and answer lots of other queries you might have. Yes, your contraceptive pill will be just as effective when taking Ibuprofen. The only medecines which can cause contraceptive faliure with Microgynon 30 are: * Antibiotics (such as ampicillin and rifampicin) * Griseofulvin (Used to treat fungal infections) * Phenylbutazone (An anti-inflammatory drug used to treat some types of joint diseases) * Phenytoin, Primidon, Phenobarbiton and some other medicines used to treat people with epilepsy such as carbamezepine. Hope this helps. The leaflet inside your box of pills will also inform you and answer lots of other queries you might have.
Which sense is closely tied to smell?
The sense of taste. When you are attracted to the nice smell of food, you can sometimes taste it in your mouth as if you were eating it!x
Are swelling eyelids and hard welts on your body allergic reactions after taking aspirin?
Sounds like it. See your health care provider today for evaluation and treatment.
1Account for the fact that old aspirin may smell like vinegar?
Acetic acid
(vinegar) is one of the biproducts when
aspirin
(acetylsalicylic acid) breaks down.
What happens if you take aspirin with metoprolol?
http://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/aspirin-with-lopressor-243-0-1615-987.html
The two drugs might counteract each other a bit in their effectiveness, but there seem to be no documented negative interactions between the two. Ask your pharmacist to be safe.
It is the body's immune response to raise body temperature in order to fight the infection and by reducing the fever, the aspirin inhibits part of the body's immunological response.
+The latest discoveries show that taking aspirin may help reduce the risk of potentially deadly bacterial infections.
