People being like: “Why do you buy tasty chewable children’s aspirin when we already have extra strength aspirin in the house?”
And it’s like, “I believe that people only need as much medication as does the job. I don’t need an extra strength aspirin when I feel a migraine coming on. I can use a children’s aspirin and stop the migraine before it starts.”
Just because you can buy things directly from the grocery store doesn’t mean they’re automatically safe to use in massive amounts.
Aspirin and Tylenol can kill you. So can alcohol, tobacco, and too much water.
Too much water?
Yeah, if you drink too much water in too short an amount of time, you can throw off your electrolyte balance. I imagine it being as though you’re changing the water in a fish tank, and rather than leaving behind some of the water the fish is used to, you just drain the tank completely and refill it with tap water.
The result? Dead fish.
Drinking gallons of water without adding some electrolytes, results in a dead person. It’s just how the body works.
It’s the amount that makes the poison.
A handful of chewable children’s aspirin spread out over a few days is no big deal. A handful of extra strength aspirin in that same amount of time could result in serious consequences.
We are a society of too much. We need to first realize what “just enough” is before we overindulge due to lack of knowledge.
I only need a low-dose aspirin to get the job done. Taking an extra strength aspirin just means wasting aspirin and possibly putting my organs at risk.
There’s no reason for it.
That being said, I recommend that people should keep low-dose aspirin around. Like, if you’re going to use aspirin anyway, why not have a variety to choose from depending on the reasons you need it?
Even if you just keep aspirin around to grind them into powder and add water to mix up a paste to remove the pain from a possible scorpion bite.
If you’re going to stock regular and/or extra strength aspirin, low-dose aspirin is good to have. You might find out that you’ve been taking a much larger dose of aspirin than you actually need.
You’re trying to get a job done. Not liquify your organs.
And if you’re a Tylenol man? That’s even more reason to lean toward low-dose over extra strength since Tylenol can kill you dead.
