COVID, blood clots, and aspirin
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Anonymous
You do the math. |
Anonymous
Hm.. what do they risk if you take Aspirin and get sick? What do you risk if you take Aspirin and get sick? Typically, Reye's syndrome begins after a viral infection, such as a cold, influenza, or chickenpox. Most such infections do not lead to Reye's syndrome, and some cases are so mild that no one notices. Other cases are more serious. Although adults and babies can develop Reye's syndrome, it usually occurs in children between the ages of 2 and 16. Symptoms include vomiting, nausea, and drowsiness. There is also a change in behavior, and patients may act irrationally and seem to have lost touch with reality. If untreated, Reye's syndrome can cause loss of consciousness, coma, and death. Reye's syndrome causes the brain and liver to swell and the liver to develop fatty deposits. The chemistry of the blood and other body fluids becomes abnormal. No one is sure how some viral infections develop into Reye's syndrome. Some doctors suspect that an unidentified virus causes Reye's syndrome. Others theorize that people with certain genes * are more likely to get it. Some studies in the 1980s linked aspirin to the development of Reye's syndrome (see sidebar). http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/Pre-Sei/Reye-s-Syndrome.html#ixzz6KRn9kSy6" border="0" style="max-width: 500pt; max-height: 500pt" /> Reye's Syndrome warning on aspirin box. © Leonard Lessin, Peter Arnold, Inc. HISTORY OF REYE SYNDROME The children always arrived at the Australian hospital on the verge of death. They often would be unconscious or in a coma. Sometimes their bodies suffered uncontrollable spasms, and the children seemed to be slipping into insanity. It was a tragic—and puzzling—situation. Only a week or so earlier, the children had been experiencing the typical childhood infections such as earaches, chest colds, or sore throats. Then things took a turn for the worse. Dr. Douglas Reye was the director of pathology at that Australian hospital when these children died in the 1950s and early 1960s. He discovered odd things, such as swollen brains, discolored livers, and damaged kidneys in the children. He realized that they were dealing with an as yet unnamed disease. In 1963, a doctor in North Carolina named George Johnson saw a link between the disease Reye had discovered and one he was seeing in children after an outbreak of influenza. The disease was initially called Reye-Johnson syndrome and is now simply Reye's syndrome. Read more: http://www.humanillnesses.com/original/Pre-Sei/Rey...-s-Syndrome.html#ixzz6KRnVBZk4 |
Anonymous
| This really jumped out at me, OP. I have COVID. I feel like I’m recovering, but the doctor is sending me for a CT today to look for PE (pulmonary embolism? I think?). I’m still very short of breath. My oxygen levels keep dropping suddenly. They dropped to 88 yesterday and then quickly came back up. I developed a stabbing pain in my chest. I thought maybe just a pulled muscle from 14 days of coughing. But I guess the doctor wants to play it safe. Now I’m glad he is checking! |
Anonymous
Could you please link the studies and tests they did they are basing their recommendations on? Because quick search will show you that the Reye's syndrome is NOT limited to children but also to teens and adults therefore this recommendations has SERIOUS flows. |
Anonymous
| Reye’s syndrome is extremely uncommon in adults. |
Anonymous
| I’m guessing an adult is a lot more likely to die of a COVID blood clot right now than Reye’s Syndrome... |
Anonymous
| I thought Reye’s syndrome is extremely rare. |
Anonymous
Thank your doctor, as getting checked is absolutely the right thing to do. I had a blood clot years ago and described the early stage exactly like that - I thought I pulled a muscle. |
Anonymous
| Decrease inflammation, almost instantly lessen inflammation, that's what aspirin does. It should be the first thing you reach for when your body is in distress, any distress, especially discomfort in the chest, or breathing. I carry aspirin on me at all times. I don't happen to take a small aspirin daily though that would be one approach. |
Anonymous
+1 That’s how my PE symptoms felt as well, and I had a similar drop in blood oxygen levels. Reading about the clotting issues, I’m now wondering if my PE case last fall could have been COVID related. It followed a couple weeks of what felt like a fairly intense cold. We’d been on our last of three trips to San Francisco just before the cold symptoms started. I had no risk factors, and the doctors seemed very surprised that I had so many clots throughout my lungs. I’m really glad you are getting the CT scan. Please report back. |
Anonymous
How did the CT scan go? |
Anonymous
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I thought Aspirin and Ibuprofen was a big no-no for COVID.
I have seriously thought about using serrapeptase but research results is not that great. Maybe I will take it for a very limited time and see if the bruising on my thighs after COVID resolves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratiopeptidase I do take MK-7 Vit K made from Natto. Taking the serrapeptase |