A man, Mr. K, came into the pharmacy over the weekend in desperate search for baby aspirin.
Mr. K told me a very detailed story how his wife went with him to the doctor’s office. The doctor said he should take one baby aspirin every day to help his heart health and have regular aspirin around to chew if he is having a heart attack. He told me his wife sent him to the store with a note.
We had a talk about baby aspirin –which is, tricky enough, not actually for babies. (Aspirin is usually avoided in children younger then 15 years old). Baby aspirin is actually “Low-dose aspirin” or more accurately, “Aspirin 81mg.”
Helpful Hint: Studies have shown that if a person chews a tablet of aspirin 325mg (or 4 tablets of aspirin 81mg), it can limit damage that happens during a heart attack (of course, you still call 9-1-1!).
Mr. K chose a generic chewable version of aspirin 81mg but not after we decoded what enteric coating meant…
clipped from: www.getpharmacyadvice.com