Aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs in the world, in the World War II period, aspirin can quickly reduce fever and anti-inflammatory, save the lives of many soldiers, many people use aspirin as a life-saving miracle drug. After World War II, aspirin has also been the most widely used and more variety of drugs for the treatment of diseases.
In the early days of the founding of the mainland, in the case of drug shortage, aspirin has always been a common drug in the families of the mainland people, and many families will take aspirin as long as they are sick. With the development of science and technology, in recent years, scientists have discovered new roles of aspirin. The following content is a detailed introduction to the new role of aspirin.
First, the role of aspirin
The role of aspirin can be divided into two major types of effects, the first effect is to reduce fever, pain relief, anti-inflammatory effect. This effect of aspirin has made aspirin from not being taken seriously to becoming one of the world's three classic drugs, becoming one of the most widely sold and longest-running drugs in the world.
Many people may only know that the birth of aspirin originated from the developer Flix. Hoffman's love for his father. Hoffman's father suffers from very serious rheumatoid arthritis, each time Hoffman's father is very painful, Hoffman after many trials synthesized aspirin, after giving it to his father, the treatment effect on his father's rheumatoid arthritis is very significant.
Since then, aspirin has become a blessing for rheumatoid arthritis patients. People also know aspirin, many people think that Hoffman is the first synthetic aspirin, in fact, before Hoffman, aspirin was synthesized by Frederick Gérard, but at that time Gérard was not sure about the specific role of aspirin, and aspirin was not understood and valued.
When Hoffman recombined aspirin again and actually used it, aspirin came into view. Aspirin shines and makes many people know, but during World War II, it saved the lives of many soldiers and was recognized and used by people all over the world.
The second effect of aspirin is to inhibit the formation of platelets and reduce the formation of blood clots. Scientists have discovered this role of aspirin for a long time, but it has been ignored. As we all know, the main role of platelets is to quickly coagulate blood and form blood clots. Thrombosis usually refers to blood clotting in blood vessels or solid blood clots formed by spalling off the inner wall of blood vessels.
Too many blood clots in blood vessels will cause congestion to blood vessels, so that blood vessels cannot flow normally, causing blood to be unable to supply blood to the heart normally, and finally it will lead to heart problems and produce many heart diseases. The most common heart disease caused by blood clots is coronary heart disease. In the early 19th century, the population of coronary heart disease caused by blood clots was not too large, so it was ignored.
After the 20th century, with the improvement of people's living standards, changes in the living environment, and the increase in the elderly, coronary heart disease has also become the most patient disease at present, and once patients suffer from coronary heart disease, they cannot be cured, and can only rely on drugs for a long time to maintain and prevent. If you take drugs for a long time, you need to find a drug with a relatively high cost performance.
At this time, aspirin once again into people's sight, first of all, aspirin inhibits the formation of platelets is fundamentally to solve the formation of thrombosis, as coronary heart disease can not be cured, only early prevention, reduce the probability of coronary heart disease.
Secondly, aspirin as a Western medicine side effects are relatively small, even if there are some side effects, as long as the drug is stopped, it can be metabolized by the human body itself. Aspirin has a high safety factor relative to other drugs.
Finally, there is the issue of cost of expenses. If you want to prevent the occurrence of coronary heart disease, you need to take long-term medication, long-term medication is not a few days or a month, or a year, may be several years, if you take once a day, a pill for 1 yuan, it is estimated that the long-term is also a big cost. Aspirin currently sells for only a few cents for a pill.
In addition to the above two main roles of aspirin, scientists have found that aspirin has a preventive effect on some cancers in recent years. In particular, stomach cancer and bowel cancer can reduce the chance of patients suffering from stomach cancer and bowel cancer by 30%-40%. Although aspirin has many effects, there are many aspects to pay attention to if you take aspirin for a long time.
Second, how to take aspirin correctly
The way aspirin is taken needs to be noted, if it is not taken in the right way, it is likely to cause irreparable harm to the patient, and if it is serious, it is likely to cause death. Many people may think that this statement is a bit exaggerated, thinking that aspirin has been around for more than a hundred years and is considered to be a Western medicine with the least side effects and relatively high safety.
This recognition is because aspirin has always been used as a fever reducer, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic. The cycle is very short, each time the doctor will advise, take up to 2 tablets each time, about 5 to 10mg, up to 4 times a day, each time for 4 hours. Take it for up to one week, usually for 2-3 consecutive days, and the condition will be cured.
After the patient recovers, because of the short time of taking, the side effects of taking aspirin will also be metabolized by the body quickly after stopping the drug. Therefore, it is difficult for people to feel the side effects of aspirin, and it is believed that taking aspirin is safer.
Aspirin as a prevention of coronary heart disease, when it is necessary to take it for a long time, patients need to understand the side effects of aspirin in detail, and how to take it, so as not to cause damage to the body. The main side effects of aspirin are as follows.
The first side effect is that patients who take aspirin for a long time are prone to heavy bleeding. Aspirin inhibits the efficacy of platelets, the number of platelets in the blood of patients who take aspirin for a long time is less than the number of platelets in normal humans, and when patients who take it for a long time are injured, there will be a phenomenon that the wound is not easy to stop bleeding.
Patients who take aspirin for a long time have a high risk of major bleeding when they do surgery, so if patients who take aspirin for a long time need to do surgery, be sure to tell their doctors about taking aspirin to prevent risks during surgery.
The second side effect is the susceptibility to stomach disease. Because aspirin has a certain irritation to the gastric mucosa, it can cause the gastric mucosa to fall off. If the stomach has a disease, it is best not to take aspirin to prevent increased stomach disease, especially stomach bleeding, must not take aspirin, otherwise it will cause stomach bleeding, serious will be life-threatening.
The third side effect is that the kidneys and liver will have a certain damage, the liver and kidneys will be damaged, many cases are because the patient takes too much at a time, generally there is liver damage, as long as the patient stops taking aspirin, after a period of time the liver will return to normal.
If there are kidney problems, patients who take aspirin for a long time will develop nephritis and decreased renal function. Patients who take aspirin for a long time will have potassium in the body excreted through the renal tubules, resulting in potassium deficiency in patients, and serious pyelonecence cancer. Therefore, patients who take aspirin for a long time must often test the indicators of potassium in their bodies.
The fourth is iron deficiency anemia. The fifth is that there will be an allergic reaction, which is that some patients have an allergic reaction to aspirin, and after taking it, there will be symptoms such as asthma, rash, rhinitis and nasal polyps, etc. If the above conditions show that they are patients who are intolerant to aspirin, they must stop taking the drug in time.
To prevent these side effects, or to reduce the harm of side effects, be sure to take aspirin correctly. First take aspirin, whether it is long-term or short-term, you must not take aspirin on an empty stomach, especially aspirin tablets, the correct should be to take aspirin after meals to reduce aspirin stimulation of the stomach.
The second is the dose taken by adult patients at a time. If it is a short-term condition, such as short-term symptoms such as antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, pain relief, etc., it is generally recommended to take 0.3 to 0.6g each time, 3 times a day, and if the condition is serious, it can be increased once. However, each dose must be taken at an interval of 4 hours.
If it is to prevent coronary heart disease and inhibit the production of platelets, patients generally take it once a day, and the amount of a day is preferably 75 to 150 mg, and insist on taking it every day. Some patients are worried about side effects, taking a dose of less than 75 mg per day, such a dose is not preventive.
In order to increase the efficacy, some patients take a dose of more than 150 mg per day. Taking it in this way is also wrong, and overdosing will not increase much efficacy, but will increase the risk of side effects. For patients who take aspirin for a long time, it is best to take 100 mg per day.
The third is that patients taking aspirin must not take it with alcohol. Alcohol has a strong irritation to the stomach, after drinking wine or drinking alcohol after taking medicine, this is a double stimulation of the stomach, will increase the appearance of stomach diseases.
The fourth is that aspirin has a certain first aid effect on myocardial infarction patients, many patients with myocardial infarction will always have aspirin at the head of the bed, when there is a myocardial infarction, the correct way for patients to take aspirin should be, chew aspirin and then swallow, so that you can quickly absorb the drug effect, play a role in medicine, and achieve the role of first aid. After taking the medicine, call an ambulance to prevent accidents.
Third, can the elderly over 70 years old take aspirin?
Generally, the elderly over the age of 50 have a relatively large chance of coronary heart disease, and many elderly people around 50 years old will begin to take aspirin to prevent coronary heart disease. Now the society is spreading that if the elderly over 70 years old, it is best not to take aspirin, otherwise there will be a great risk.
Whether the elderly over 70 years old can use aspirin actually needs to be divided into two situations. The first case is that if the elderly are 70 years old and do not suffer from coronary heart disease, we recommend not taking aspirin in such an elderly person. Because the risk of cerebral hemorrhage in the elderly over the age of 70 is high.
The second situation is that if the elderly of this age have already suffered from coronary heart disease, such elderly people should continue to take aspirin, we know that patients with coronary heart disease if they stop taking aspirin, the risk will be greater, and there will be sudden death in severe cases.
Fourth, which people do not take aspirin may have a big risk
The first is that patients who have had a heart tower bridge and a heart stent must take aspirin if there is no contraindication to aspirin, because such patients are most prone to blood clots.
The second is that patients who have had palpitations and infarction, stroke stroke, if there are no contraindications, it is best to take aspirin.
The third is that patients who have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease or vascular disease, if there is no contraindication to aspirin, it is best to take aspirin, because these people are most prone to blood clots, making the disease worse.
The fourth is that patients who have been taking aspirin for a long time, it is best not to change the dressing easily, otherwise it will be counterproductive and cause greater harm to the body.
summary
Although aspirin is recognized as one of the classic drugs in the history of medicine, with high safety, few side effects and significant efficacy, these are relative. When the taking cycle changes, the treatment of diseases is different, the patient's body age is different, the efficacy and safety of the drug will change accordingly, it is likely that the previously safe drug may now be the most harmful drug.
Every patient can not blindly take the drug, or abuse, so that in the end can only damage our own body, to bring irreparable damage to their own body. When we have an illness and need to take medicine, it is best to go to the hospital and take it according to the doctor's instructions.