How long do you take aspirin before flying?

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Traveling by air can be an uncomfortable experience, with headaches caused by changes in air pressure, pain in sitting in one place and, in rare cases, serious health problems. Taking aspirin before flight can help alleviate pain and prevent thrombosis. If you want to take aspirin to ensure its safety, especially if you have previous health conditions, consult a doctor before flying.

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span= "article-image_u caption-inner"> 81 mg aspirin, not full-strength aspirin. (Picture: Digital Vision/Digital Vision/Getty Images)

The reason for taking aspirin before flight can help to avoid the slight pain caused by sitting on the plane for a long time. The cabin also has low pressure at cruising altitude, which lowers blood oxygen level and induces headache. Aspirin can be used to treat it. More importantly, aspirin thins the blood and makes it less likely that you will have thrombus if you sit in one place for too long. Because lower oxygen levels and dehydration make deep venous thrombosis (or thrombosis) more likely, aspirin is especially effective in flight, rather than traveling in another way or sitting at your desk all day.

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The best time to give aspirin to infants is 30 minutes before take-off, but any time within 3 hours before take-off. This gives aspirin time to start working and ensures that it lasts for a long time - even on your plane home, although you can't take another baby aspirin before returning on another day. Aspirin inhibits the production of platelets and thromboxane, a coagulant that lasts for several days after taking aspirin. Before traveling, please discuss aspirin with your doctor because aspirin is not safe for everyone. Problems that make aspirin dangerous include gastric ulcer bleeding, clotting disorders that cause you to bleed longer before clotting, previous heart attacks and aspirin allergies. In addition, aspirin can only prevent certain types of blood clots, that is, those mainly composed of fibrin, which means that they cannot effectively prevent deep vein clots, which are usually formed in the leg and cannot move sufficiently.

Other ways to maintain health and help prevent blood clots on flights include drinking a glass of water every two hours, bending your feet to keep blood circulating, and walking along the cabin aisle when the seatbelt sign stops stretching. Wear loose clothes. If your doctor recommends, you can wear compression stockings, which will help straighten your veins and improve blood circulation in your legs.

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