The scientist calls aspirin one of the chief culprit of 1918 flu

The scientist calls aspirin one of the chief culprit of 1918 flu
Perhaps influenza that happened in 1918 is one of the most fatal pestilence in the history of mankind, it has caused 50 million people death worldwide. But review the past event, perhaps some people do not die of influenza virus, but die from aspirin of medicine curing influenza.
Dr. Karen M Starko from U.S.A. has published the article to think the excess of aspirin uses the consequence that may produce the mortality. Once, high dosage (considered excessive today) Aspirin widely used to treat disease,getting more difficult very to be distinguish as symptom of cold in and aspirin symptoms produced excessive.
That year, in the pathologist working for service department of the public health, more than one lung found when the corpse of patient dying to some colds soon is examined to think damage range to be very much little, can't will cause of the death because viral pneumonia (influenza can cause viral pneumonia, this is mostly reasons of cold death) ,They think a large number of blood swimming skill liquid must be caused by other reasons in the lung. However, Dr. Starko acknowledges she has no corpse to examine reporting or other file materials can verify the reason why aspirin is the question at hand. She hopes to find the intact and detailed record, such as the file of the military.
But prevailing to cold of 1918, while analyzing that may cause a lot of factors of the death, Dr. Starko wrote, the existence that for several reasons included the summary of a series of historical incident, aspirin demonstrates the great one is suspicious. In February of 1917, the patent protection of aspirin in U.S.A. of Bayer Company failed, other pharmaceutical manufacturers begin to march on this lucrative market of medicines. In order to keep one's own market share, the ones that begin to cover the sky and the earth in Bayer Company advertise, it is high to advocate the medicine purity that oneself produce to the masses, quality is better. And at that time, it is influenza that wreak havoc up to summit soon. Do not include any toxic warning about medicine in the packaging of aspirin which Bayer Company produces, also how few guided patients took the explanation. In autumn of 1918, in the face of transmitting extensively and not having mortality disease of effective treatment means, chief and USN of American health bureau recommend regarding aspirin as the symptom therapeutic medicine. The military then buys a large amount of aspirin.
That year, it was 1000 milligrams every three hours that " magazine of American medical association " proposed aspirin to take the dosage, this about eats 25 tablets of 325 milligrams within 24 hours. This dosage is probably nowadays generally acknowledged it is twice of the safe dosage every day.
And the pharmacology function of aspirin is very complicated, were not totally understood by the sixties of the 20th century, it is very important that it takes dosage. If turned over time the administration dosage every six hours of aspirin, can cause the quadruple of rising of residue amount of the internal medicine. Even take very low dosage every day, such as several days continuously of six to nine standard tablets of every day, will cause the medicine density in the blood to reach the dangerous level in some people too. The pharmacy professor Peter A. Chyka of field Nahsi university of U.S.A. says, people knew little about the safe dosage at that time, the doctors are usually just simple to improve the dosage until being poisoned and behaved simply.
Die of the intersection of aspirin and excessive the intersection of statement and heart this, deposit suspecting to a few people, but the epidemiologist David M Morens doctor of the state-run hygiene research institute of U.S.A. says this article is estimable, because " this article makes great efforts to find the environment or host's factor that may be involved, "He says, " we are unable to only explain all these young adults' cause of the death through the way that the virus is infected itself. " (according to the New York Times)

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