If you are meant to chew aspirin when having a heart attack because it works faster, is there any reason you should just swallow regularly instead?

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If you are meant to chew aspirin when having a heart attack because it works faster, is there any reason you should just swallow regularly instead?

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Many aspirin tablets have a coating that prevents it dissolving in your stomach acid, and it dissolves in your intestines.

This prevents stomach irritation, but it also slows the absorption.

Raw aspirin is very bitter