Why is aspirin being prescribed for heart attack and stroke prevention?
Aspirin, as we stated earlier, thins the blood by preventing platelet aggregation. Platelets are blood component that plays a role in blood thickening or clot formation. When they aggregate (clump together) blood thickens and clots form. Clots tend to clog arteries and veins. When arteries to the heart (coronary) get severely blocked by clots, heart attack occurs, and when this clogging happens to the arteries to the brain, stroke happens. As simple as aspirin, this wonder drug, plays a very vital role in these conditions, together with a change in lifestyle (no smoking, low cholesterol diet, regular exercises, etc.) to maintain a thinner blood condition. Is aspirin safe for children? Pediatricians all over the world have for almost 3 decades discontinued prescribing aspirin for children for pain and fever, because aspirin has been implicated in the occurrence of Reye’s Syndrome in children following a viral (upper respiratory or gastrointestinal) infection, which syndrome could be fat
