Side effects

Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with this medicine. Because a side effect is stated here, it does not mean that all people using this medicine will experience that or any side effect.

Rash

Constipation

Slow, shallow breathing (respiratory depression)

Blood disorders

Indigestion (dyspepsia)

Ulceration of the stomach or intestine

Bleeding from the stomach

Severe swelling of lips, face or tongue (angioedema)

Nausea and vomiting

Sensation of ringing, or other noise in the ears (tinnitus)

Breathing difficulties due to a narrowing of the airways (bronchospasm)

Drowsiness

The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the drug's manufacturer. For more information about any other possible risks associated with this medicine, please read the information provided with the medicine or consult your doctor or pharmacist.

How can this medicine affect other medicines?

Aspirin increases the effect of blood-thinning or anti-clotting medicines such as warfarin. Therefore, unless treatment is prescibed by a doctor with careful adjustment of the anticoagulant dose, the two should not be taken together. Aspirin reduces the rate at which the body can remove the medicine methotrexate. The two should not usually be used together. NSAIDs such as aspirin should not be used within 8-12 days of taking mifepristone. Except when used at a low dosage for anti-clotting purposes, aspirin should not be taken with any other NSAID as there may be an increased risk of side effects. When aspirin is taken together with corticosteroids there may be an increase in the blood level of aspirin and an increased risk of side effects such as stomach ulceration and bleeding from the gut. Antacids or other medicines which make the urine more alkaline may increase the removal of aspirin from the body. This is relevant for people taking regular high doses of aspirin, but is unimportant for occasional pain relieving doses. When aspirin is taken together with carbonic anhydrase inhibitors such as acetazolamide, its removal from the body may be reduced. This is relevant for people taking regular high doses of aspirin, but is unimportant for occasional pain relieving doses. The effect of uricosuric medicines for gout, such as probenecid, may be reduced by regular high doses of aspirin. This is unimportant for occasional pain relieving doses. This medicine should only be used in conjunction with monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressants with extreme caution. When papaveretum is taken together with alcohol or medicines that cause drowsiness, for example, sleeping tablets, antidepressants and antihistamines, drowsiness is likely to be increased.

Other medicines containing the same active ingredients

Aspav

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