A daily dose of aspirin may help your heart. But as with other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), these widely used analgesics and anti-inflammatories may not be as kind to your gut. Mucosal lesions, ulcers, perforations, and hemorrhage may occur but the extent is unknown. Notably however, the stomach and bowel may need different prevention strategies. […]
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Aspirin Lowers Probiotic Numbers
Side effects to medications run the gamut: from barely noticeable such as dry mouth to the drastic one hundred pound weight gain or double-digit spike in blood pressure. The elderly suffer a double whammy in that they usually take more drugs at the same time their guts are struggling to keep up. A graduate student […]