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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In addition to the info provided in the other comments, there’s a lot of evidence (though not necessarily fully conclusive) that chewing aspirin significantly speeds tooth erosion, and may also not be very good for the gums, so not something you’d want to do regularly.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15354902/