You should take aspirin if you're having chest pains due to a possible heart attack or heart issue.
Aspirin should be chewed when you're experiencing chest pains as aspirin prevents clotting and keeps the blood flowing through narrowed arteries which cause a heart attack.
Taking aspirin during a heart attack is safe and recommended.
If you think you're having a heart attack, call 911 or emergency medical services.
The side effects of aspirin are drowsiness, difficulty breathing, decreased frequency or amount of urine, constipation, convulsions, severe or continuing, change in consciousness, blood or cloudy urine and abdominal or stomach pain, stomach cramping or burning.
Ibuprofen is safer than aspirin and is preferred over aspirin in conditions that are ongoing such as back pain, menstrual cramps and arthritis.
The risk of gastrointestinal side effects increase the longer the duration of treatment and the risk of GI effects that are associated with aspirin use is already high.
The reason doctors say not to take aspirin is because aspirin has side effects and can irritate your stomach lining and also trigger ulcers, bleeding and gastrointestinal upset in some people.
Aspirin also thins your blood and can be dangerous for people that are at higher risk of bleeding.
Aspirin is an NSAID also known as non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs that is widely used for relieving mild to moderate inflammation and pain.
The reason why aspirin causes Reye's syndrome is when it enters your body it can worsen damage to mitochondria and when damaged the mitochondria causes levels of ammonia to increase in your blood which is followed by swelling of your brain.
Aspirin is most commonly associated with Reye's Syndrome.
Reye's syndrome, is a rare but also very serious condition that causes swelling in the liver and brain.
Reye's syndrome can occur at any age but usually affects children and teenagers after a viral infection, most commonly the flu or chickenpox.