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OTC Painkillers

El_Dangeroso · 2013-10-23 16:00:50

Not medical advice, just curious! Aspirin thins the blood, causing increased bleeding in the even of a cut, but do all OTC painkillers do this? That is, aspirin, ibuprofen, codeine?

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23-10-2013 5:00pm

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Not medical advice, just curious!

Aspirin thins the blood, causing increased bleeding in the even of a cut, but do all OTC painkillers do this?

That is, aspirin, ibuprofen, codeine?

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#2 24-10-2013 8:19pm
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Short answer - no.

Aspirin is an antiplatelet drug, an irreversible cycloaxegenase (COX) inhibiter. Platelets are one of the factors in creating 'blood clots' and so inhibiting this 'thins' the blood. Although ibuprofen is also a non steroidal anti inflammatory its platelet inhibition is very mild. Codeine is an opiate which is the same class of drug as morphine (named because they come from the poppy plant - opium) It has no anti platelet activity as far as I know. Paracetemol equally has no anti platelet role.

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