Aspirin  Info

To add to  your body of body knowledge: 
  
Dr. Virend  Somers, a cardiologist from the Mayo  Clinic is lead author of the  report in the July 29, 2008 issue of  the Journal of  the American College of  Cardiology. 
  
Most heart  attacks occur in the day, generally  between 6 A.M. and noon, Somers said.   Having one during the night,  when the heart should be most at rest, means  that something unusual happened.  Somers  and his colleagues  have been working for a decade to show that sleep  apnea is to  blame. 
    
1.    If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a  day, take it at night.  The  reason: aspirin has a 24-hour  "half-life".   therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the  wee hours of the morning, the aspirin would be  strongest in your system. 
  
2.     FYI, aspirin lasts a really long time in your  medicine  chest.............years. 
(when it  gets old, it smells like  vinegar.) 

                  Something  that we can do to help ourselves.
Bayer  is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly  on the tongue. They work much faster than the  tablets.

  
     Why  keep aspirin by your  bedside?

About  Heart Attacks

There  are other symptoms of a heart  attack besides the  pain on the left arm. 
One  must also be aware of an  intense pain on the chin, as  well as nausea and  lots of sweating.  However, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.

Note: There  may be NO pain in the chest during a heart  attack.
The majority of people (about 60%)  who had a heart attack during their sleep,  did not wake up.  However, if it occurs,  the chest  pain may wake you up from your deep  sleep.
 

If  that happens, immediately  dissolve two  aspirins in  your mouth and  swallow them with a bit of  water.

Afterwards:
   -call  911
- phone  a neighbor or a family  member who lives very close  by
-say “heart  attack!"
-say that you  have taken 2  aspirins.
- take  a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door,  and wait for their  arrival and...
~do  NOT lie down~