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Thread: "Baby" Aspirin

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05-05-2008, 11:11 AM

fgummett

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I am a: Type 2

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Posts: 1,429

"Baby" Aspirin

Found out something weird this weekend... my local supermarket has a pharmacy section but on Sunday afternoons when the Pharmacist is not there, certain sections of pills are shuttered off. Yesterday (Sunday) I went into re-stock my daily Aspirin 81mg low-dose pills... couldn't find them... 325mg or even 500mg Aspirin no problem, but 81mg no joy

So today I asked a Pharmacist... it seems that so many Doctors still refer to these pills as, "Baby Aspirin" that they can only be sold when the Pharmacist is on duty, in case people mistakenly think they can give them to babies

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And of course we ALL know that no-one under the age of 12 should take Aspirin

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