1/9 Aspirin Before I get to it, we need to remember that pain and inflammation mean that the body is healing. Usually the increased blood flow and swelling cause the pain. Healing always happens in a fluid environment. Why? Because it requires
2/9 increased amounts of “construction” materials and bacteria to complete the job of tissue regeneration and repair. When the damage is more extensive, the healing activity will also be enhanced, requiring additional mechanisms such as fever.
3/9 Taking an anti-inflammatory, a pain killer or an antipyretic (fever lowering) drug is counterintuitive, because it interferes with your body’s natural healing process. Furthermore, these drugs will also cause additional damages commonly known as side effects or
4/9 adverse reactions, such as liver and kidney toxicity. Using common sense, why would anyone interfere with the body’s efforts to heal? I know pain can be debilitating sometimes, but there are other ways to deal with it, in addition to a lot of patience.
5/9 This is something I teach and help people with in my coaching. Once you understand your body’s messages, what they mean and how to support healing, you will probably never need a doctor again (other than for some real emergencies, like a traumatic injury, etc.).
6/9 What is Aspirin? It is an anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and a blood thinning drug. What could go wrong, really! (sarcasm). Some of the risks of taking aspirin are: Abdominal pain Nausea Vomiting Gastrointestinal bleeding
7/9 Even the medical establishment recognizes that Aspirin intake correlates with higher mortality rates. This is in line with a previous post showing that lowering fever is also associated with a higher mortality. It used to be prescribed and given to children at low doses
8/9 for fever & pain, but that has changed over a decade ago because of the risk of what is called Reye syndrome (nausea, vomiting, headache, excitability, delirium, combativeness, & coma). You might ask, what about a daily low dose to prevent a secondary heart attack or stroke?
9/9 That's another topic in itself & as you may guess, I have a different take on it that I can't expand on here. I'll just say this: taking a low dose aspirin in these cases is just like a patch that won’t solve the real underlying problem, in addition to posing the known risks.
