is it safe to take ibuprofen while on blood thinner?
[2010-03-02 04:03:47]

Q: Is it vault to take ibuprofen while you're taking blood thinner pills? or is it safe to take advil, or Tylenol, etc.?

A: I surmise that you are on warfarin, this being the case I would use only paracetamol as a simple painkiller. Advil is just a brand name for ibuprofen which can modify your INR and increase your risk of bleeding.

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Is Ibuprofen a blood thinner?
[2008-09-19 05:24:56]

Is Ibuprofen a blood thinner or is it lawful aspirin?

Ibuprofen can intrude with platelets and thus can reduce the clotting ability of the blood. However, this is a relatively weak effect compared to agents that purposefully "thin the blood".

"Blood thinner" is a...

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How does IBUPROFEN act as a blood thinner?
[2011-02-21 11:37:27]

I am having sinus/polyp surgery on 2/25/11 (this Friday) and the coddle who called me told me not to drink IBUPROFEN (or anything that contains it) for a week, so I was wondering how that happens.

It works in a comparable manner as aspirin (though if we want to get technical the going theory is that it does bind to a strange site), it binds to the platelets in your blood and prevents them from activating properly when you get a cut (or in this

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Is ibuprofen a blood thinner?
[2010-09-07 06:44:46]

It seems to have the other attributes of aspirin: wretchedness relief, anti-inflammatory, fever reducer. Does it also thin the blood like aspirin?

All of the non-particular NSAIDs (aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen are the common ones) disrupt platelet function to some capaciousness (due to their action on COX-1, if that is important to you), and therefore are anticoagulants ("blood thinners").