Asprin? As a preventive measure

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So I've been reading the bbc article this morning about the observations from doctors about how it attacks the body (specifically in icu patients) and was of symptoms was the extreme blood clotting. Now asprin has been reccomend for years for people at risk of heart attacks and strokes because it interferes with the way blood clots, so I was just pondering whether, especially for those in the high risk groups, taking asprin regularly would be reccomend? Or for those that develop early cv symptoms (fever etc) to use asprin instead of paracetamol?
I'm not a medical professional so would be interested in other peoples points of view, especially from the medical world, because surely, anything that can prevent serious illness and death has got to be worth trying

Here's a link to the article www.bbc.co.uk/news/52760992

Blood needs to be able to clot, that's what stops us bleeding to death if we cut ourselves. Asprin also has very dangerous side effects if you take it daily. Nice idea but seriously dangerous.

Aspirin is an anti platelet -the clotting issues associated with COVID are thrombus in nature and are not platelet rich. Or combat these types of clots one would need an anti coagulation of the thrombin cascade

I think taking aspirin prophylacticly may do more hard by increasing bleeding

^^ @TARSCOUT is right. Aspirin is often not recommended for children as they cut themselves very often and it prevents blood from clotting so they could bleed profusely.

If it’s something you are interested in then discuss it with your GP but if they thought you would benefit from dialysis aspirin they probably would have already told you.

Some in high risk groups would not be recommended aspirin ever even temporarily as it could interfere with other medications.

Not sure where the dialysis came from but hopefully you understand.

For years, a daily baby aspirin was recommended to large numbers of middle-aged and older patients to prevent stroke. Now thinking has rather swung in the opposite direction, because the protective effect seems to be offset by the increased chance of stomach and brain bleeding (over many years of taking it). But in the face of a new illness that seems to cause clotting problems (we don't know enough yet about how, in whom etc) the risk/benefits may well swing back in aspirin's favour. It's really NOT a high risk thing to do, so along with upping my vitamin D supplements and being careful about iron supplementation in multi vitamins, I'm taking a baby aspirin a couple of times a week.

Thank you, I didn't realise asprin could have dangerous side effects - as I said I'm not a medical professional, it was just sunday morning musings really and I wanted some other perspectives so thank you all for replying

just managed to get hold of some aspirin today. Wont be using it now but if I start to have coronavirus symptoms then I shall start taking a low dose. The risks of taking it routinely mean dont take it now, the risks if you get coronavirus symptoms are different.