NOTE: NSAIDs stands for Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs.
This includes aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and other names we will be adding.
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WARNING !
THE ONLY THING THAT PREVENTS THE STOMACH FROM DIGESTING ITSELF
IS THE MUCOUS LINING! How can the stomach tell the difference from steak
and itself? Think about it, and get angry when you see the
new ads for Bayer (buffered aspirin) which encourages you to
"Take it for pain; Take it for life".
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Discover Magazine's June 2001 article entitled
"Does Aspirin Help Prevent Cancer?" subtitle "Perhaps, but the side
effects could get you too" states in the article "But aspirin and its
cohorts come with some nasty side effects that have kept
doctors from taking them seriously as anticancer agents. Because
one of the enzymes they inhibit helps maintain the lining of the gut,
NSAIDs can cause bleeding ulcers and other injuries of the digestive
tract. These NSAID-related traumas result in about 100,000
hospitalizations and almost 17,000 deaths a year in the Untied States...
so the idea of advocating long-term use of the drugs in healthy people
has never seemed sound." The article also states "Of course,
the toxicity of NSAIDs limits their use in controlling chronic
pain and treating arthritis as well."
| The article quoted gastroenterologist Andrew Dannenberg who they list as directing the cancer prevention program at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell and conducts research at Cornell University as saying "Despite their ready availability NSAIDs are not really safe compounds" and "if you're thinking in terms of preventing cancer, rather than treating it, you need a very, very safe approach". Ernest Hawk of the National Cancer Institute's division of prevention was quoted as saying "Right now it's premature to recommend aspirin or any other NSAID for cancer prevention...we don't know enough about the side effects." Note: Discover Magazine is an excellent read and every month their section "Vital Signs" about health should be required reading for every doctor and health care worker.
"All Aspirin Poses Risk Of Bleeding."
That is the heading of a New York Times aritcle dated December 17,
1996 by Jane E. Brody which stated "...it may be no safer for the
digestive tract to take buffered or enteric-coated versions, a new
study suggests." The article also stated "While it has long been
known that plain aspirin can sometimes cause serious bleeding in
the upper gastrointestinal tract, the study showed that this risk
was not reduced amoung those taking low doses of either buffered
or enteric-coated aspirin. Users of low-dose aspirin, regardless of
the type, were three times as likely as nonusers to be hospitalized
with serious bleeding in the stomach or small intesting."
Judith P. Kelly of the Slone Epidemiology Unit at the Boston University
School of Medicine was quoted "...the risk of bleeding was directly
related to the dose and suggested that the problem could be minimized
by taking the smallest effective dose of aspirin...anyone taking
aspirin on a regualr basis would be wise to weith the projected
benefits against this risk. For people taking relatively high doses
of aspirin to counter the pain of arthritis ... the benefits of being ab
able to fulfill the demands of daily life would have to be weighted
against the risk of suffering a serious bleeding problem."
| "An aspirin-induced ulcer or gastritis -- an inflammation of the stomach lining -- is the cause of such bleeding, which typically results in vomiting blood." "In virtually everyone who takes it, aspirin causes what are knows as microbleeds, the loss of tiny amounts of blood from the gastrointestional tract that may show up in the stool. The more serious bleeding studied...is much more rare, but can sometimes be fatal, particularly in people with other medical problems or if a lot of blood is lost very quickly."
Are you trying to kill your self
through the chronic use of
ASPERIN!
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has documented for over
a decade that 17,000 to 20,000 deaths
a year are a direct result of
a hemmoraging of the stomach as a result of aspirin, IN ANY FORM!
Aspirin dissolves the mucous lining of the stomach, and when in the
blood stream prevents and blocks the replacment of that mucous!
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RE: ULCERS and GASTROMINAL INTESTIONAL BLEEDING:
"Treatment: The following general parctices apply:
A: Discontinue Aspirin and other NSAIDs. Over 80% of patients
with lower gastrominal tract bleeding have evidence of
recent Aspirin indegestion".
Quoted verbatum
from the just released book: 2001 Current Medical Diagonsis and Treatment
by:
Lawrence M. Tierney Jr.,
Stephen J. McPhee, and
Maxine A. Papadakys
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