DAK, do you know any doctors or nurses personally? If so, maybe you could ask them about aspirin. Maybe they can explain it to you in a way you'll understand. I think you are not going to believe me because you'd have to admit you were wrong, but maybe coming from someone else you'll believe it.
Aspirin is an anti-coagulant. In layman's terms, that means it inhibits blood clotting. When people take anticoagulants, they bleed more. When healthy people take just 2 tablets of aspirin, it approximately doubles the mean bleeding time for 4 to 7 days.
Further, it's an acid - actetylsalylic acid. It's irritating to the stomach lining. It causes ulceration and hemorrhagic lesions of the stomach lining.
How do I know? Well, for one thing, I've got a really good personal library of medical books. I handle medical malpractice cases on a regular basis, so these are books I consult regularly. I'm sitting here with the most recent edition of Goodman and Gilman's "The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics," which is the definitive text on pharmacology, and I've got it open to the section on aspirin.
For the rest of the thread, what DAK and I are arguing about is whether aspirin and other NSAIDS can be toxic to healthy people because they cause internal hemorrhage. DAK's argument is that the people who died were sick anyway. My argument is that aspirin, all by itself, is a cause of death that would not have occurred if the person wasn't taking aspirin.
This is a waste of my time and a waste of bandwidth. I think the real reason you are ticked at me is because I told you not to buy Globalstar. I was right about that, too.:) |
