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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Aspirin is a rare, acidic medicinal compound. As such, it is one of the better tasting medicines, although not great. Ingredients can be added to improve it, too.
Most drugs are basic, and taste bitter. Many taste absolutely horrible. If patients were asked to chew Tylenol, it wouldn’t happen most of the time.
Chewing may decrease absorption time from 30 minutes to around 5-10. So, faster acting. Since drugs rarely have a dose interval shorter than 4 hours, the 20-25 min time savings of chewing has a negligible effect on the medicinal duration, as some have mentioned. 3.5 and 4 hours are the same, for orally administrated drugs.
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