Q: I used to use aspirin if I had a problem sleeping in the middle of the night and it worked. Now I can’t find aspirin without NSAID stamped on the bottle, and at least three times I’ve used it to try to sleep and it makes me edgy. I looked at my mom’s old bottle of aspirin and it does NOT have NSAID on the bottle. Do you know about this? Thank you so much.
A: Aspirin is an over-the-counter pain reliever. It also has anti-coagulant properties which cause the blood to be less sticky making clotting more difficult, especially when taken in high doses over a period of time.
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