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
Why hasn’t anyone here clarified that it is way more important to take your sublingual nitrate and following the 5-15 rule than chewing on some aspirin?
When it comes to meds, it really is “the candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. Lots of meds are designed to release slowly to have the medicine working in your system over a period of time. Chewing the pill increases absorption (surface area matters), and so it rushes into your system fast, but then your body processes and clears it faster.
Most doctors recommend a DAILY “Lo Dose” (80mg, or “Baby” aspirin) to help keep arteries from clogging. Regular aspirin is 300 MG. So using lo dose does not cause the issues other replies here mention, like ulcers.
Aside from all the other reasons that have been given….chewing Aspirin tastes *awful*. Why would you choose to taste that if you didn’t have to?
I chew an aspirin when I have migraine prodrome symptoms- 9 times out of ten it stops the attack dead within minutes. I do this once every few months, I hope its not awful for me because its the only thing that works.
Yes. You chew it faster so that it gets in you faster.
The reason you’re normally not recommended to do that is because that much aspirin can cause stomach hemorrhaging.
But, hemorrhaging doesn’t matter if you’re dead
The latest research has shown that it only works after you’ve had one heart attack already. Daily aspirin then will prevent reoccurrence.
There is no reason to take aspirin if you’ve never had a heart attack. Daily aspirins can cause bleeding in your gut. Occasional aspirin for pain relief are fine.
The other issue is that it’s only been studied on males. Female biology is different.
My doctor told me that chewing an aspirin if I think I’m having a heart attack gets into the blood stream faster to help with blood clots. Aspirin seems to make the blood thinner. I’m hoping to read the correct answer on here.
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