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(49,454 posts) Mon Mar 29, 2021, 03:23 PM Mar 2021

Chewable Aspirin? [View all]

Spouse returned home after an aortic root dilation and valve repair surgery and three weeks in rehab with a long list of medications. For now. Among them warfarin and 81 mg chewable aspirin.

Many of us take this "baby aspirin" on a regular basis, I take the enteric coated tablets so I am curious about the benefits, if at all, of a chewable one.

(Spouse is doing OK, by the way. As with many surgeries, the operation was only the first step; the next weeks and months are the harder ones but, so far so good. Spouse is glad to be back home.)

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Chewable Aspirin? [View all] question everything Mar 2021 OP

Dunno, remember AsperGUM? elleng Mar 2021 #1

Chewable aspirin is absorbed faster... hlthe2b Mar 2021 #2

Thanks. I will. And, of course, one does swallow after chewing? question everything Mar 2021 #3

yes hlthe2b Mar 2021 #4

Absorbs faster and the orange are yummy questionseverything Mar 2021 #5

Pills are so tiny, I don't see why the chewable version is really needed ... if one has a gag reflex SWBTATTReg Mar 2021 #6

Thanks. I suppose when one chews you get tiny particles that any coating would be meaningless question everything Mar 2021 #7

Makes sense to me that if you chew, you destroy the 'coated' feature, unless they found SWBTATTReg Mar 2021 #8

It's chewable because it's a pediatric dosage and kids react better to chewables Warpy Mar 2021 #9

Thanks. Yes, aspirin is directed to be used in the morning. question everything Mar 2021 #10