"Aspirin a day" therapy no longer recommended

[Big Orange]

It does seem redundant and silly to take aspirin for the sake of it, and vitamin tablets are supposedly useless as well. I only take aspirin or/and paracetamol when a virus is causing siginificant pain in my head cavities. When my right ankle was completely totalled last Summer, the pills I mostly took for a few weeks was to fight back wound infections, and it is not really a source of genuine pain.

[mr friendly guy]

That's news to me about Ibuprofen being harsh on the kidneys...AND the bladder.

For the kidneys to work properly it must maintain a certain rate of flow of blood through it. To do this it can dilate the afferent arteriole (coming in) and constrict the efferent arteriole (draining out), sort of like a funnel where if the top part coming in is bigger and the bottom part is smaller you have more pressure (assuming everything else is equal).

To dilate the afferent arteriole it requires prostaglandins which are inhibited by certain analgesics such as ibuprofen and the NSAIDs in general, although some presumably do so less than others as they are less toxic to the kidneys. If any one is interested, to constrict the efferent arterioles, the kidney utilises the enzyme called ACE, so ACE - inhibitors (a class of blood pressure medications) can worsen kidney function by affecting the efferent arterioles. Of course it gets more complicated in the sense that ACE -inhibitors can help the kidneys in certain diseases, so its a matter of knowing when to prescribe and when not to.

Of course. When doctors are given free trips to Dubai by pharmaceutical companies and go riding dune buggies in the desert while having medical conferences, why not prescribe a drug whose brand name you associate with Caribbean cruises and first-class flights?

Goddamn I love Big Pharma. Just look at it affect society and influence the way people treat their health. Now that is sapping and impurifying your precious bodily fluids!

Hey, I wish Big Pharma could do that for me. Over here once a physician trainee has passed part one of their exams, drug companies tend to supply a clinical exam bag. Basically along with the free stuff like neuro tips, tendon hammer etc it also provides a cool bag for you to put your stuff in and carry it around. Unfortunately due to new government legislation ( they can't give gifts to doctors over a certain value) we get these craptacular bags which looks like those cheap made in China stuff.