Each enteric coated tablet contains: Aspirin 100 mg.
Aspirin is a salicylate NSAID and has many properties in common with non-aspirin NSAIDs.
It has analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties; it has inhibitor of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, which results in the direct inhibition of the biosynthesis of prostaglandin and thromboxanes from arachidonic acid.
Aspirin also inhibits platelet aggregation; non-acetylated salicylates do not.
Indications:
Aspirin is used for the prophylaxis of cerebrovascular disease or myocardial infarction or for the secondary prevention of thrombotic cerebrovascular or cardiovascular disease.
It is also used for pain, in musculoskeletal conditions, headache, dysmenorrhea, pyrexia, and fever.
Dose:
- Prevention of Myocardial Infarction and stroke: 75 mg to 100 mg.
- Analgesic/Antipyretic: 300 mg to 900 mg every 4 to 6 hours when necessary to a maximum of 4 g daily or as prescribed by the physician.
Contraindications:
- Children and adolescents under 16 years of age and in breast-feeding mothers because of risk of Reye's syndrome.
- With previous or active peptic ulceration.
- Haemophilia;
- Not for treatment of gout;
- With history of hypersensitivity to Aspirin or any other NSAIDs.
Special Precautions:
Aspirin should be cautiously employed, if at all, in patients prone to dyspepsia or known to have a lesion of the gastric mucosa.