aspirin has been around a long time and it’s become a lot more popular especially with heart health and 81 milligram and things like that. but there are a few cases. you don't want to give aspirin or motrin or advil to a child up to the age of 15. there is a syndrome called reye's syndrome which could happen if your child has influenza or the chickenpox and because it's a virus the aspirin actually triggers an effect that could cause some severe learning disorders disabilities in the long run. so there was a big i think call to action about this about 10 or 15 years ago. and then advil and motrin kind of weren't available over-the-counter; well now they are back. so you want to be careful as a parent if your physician advises you to give these products make sure you give the dose that your physician or healthcare provider advised and only in situations where they know about it. tylenol is really the drug of choice to be used in that situation. if you are an elderly person as well usually they are on a lot of prescription medications including blood thinners and you should not be on a blood thinner plus aspirin. it could actually make your blood too thin and you are going to run into some problems with internal bleeding or in men if you shave and you nick yourself you may not be able to stop the bleeding. so you want to be really careful about that. make sure you are going for your blood work and tell your physician or healthcare provider anything that you are taking that might contain aspirin. as a pharmacist as well use one pharmacy. make sure you have your medication list because a lot of people will come in and say oh i am looking for something for pain and i want just an aspirin product. well there are certain medications that you should not be taking that with.
when is giving aspirin a bad idea?