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I want to take baby aspirin for my heart. i read ibuprofen will stop it from thinning my blood. is this true?
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Ibuprofen and heart: Recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1611593#t=article Although ibuprofen and naproxen have been reported to potentially interfere with the antiplatelet effects of aspirin,12 we found no statistical interaction for aspirin use
Answered 4/29/2017
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Wrong!: Baby aspirin is OK to use with your doctors approval. Taking another NSAID like ibuprofen, Alene, Celebrex, Tylenol etc. will only thin your blood more. In addition, with long term use it could damage your liver.
Answered 12/2/2016
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