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I was expecting to ear from the experts on this topic. I'm just back from
a trip to France and over there, Aspirin seems to be a standard part of
the treatment of DCS, as standard in fact as pure O2.
I was reading a new French magazine (Octopus No2, juin-juillet 1996
p14, Jacques Migueres) and the recommended dose seems to be 500 mg (as
long as you don't suffer from allergies). It seems that it can be taken
at the treatment phase but there's no word on a the usefullness of a
preventive dose. It's no good if the your ASA brand contains
"paracetamol" apparently.
So let me ask the experts again what is the status of aspirin use in the
treatment of DCS in America? Time to phone up DAN?
BTW: Octopus is a new "technical" diving magazine in french.
It's printed in France not as technical as Deeptech but at least
it's different. They're up to their second number. The second editorial
states quite arongantly that all french scubadivers are techdivers...
If there is interest I'll post the mailing address.
On Fri, 24 May 1996 CHKBOONE@ao*.co* wrote:
>
> I just got educated by a pharmacist about aspirin use for heart patients and
> the info applies to divers who use it to help reduce the chance of DCS so I
> thought I would pass it along.
>
> What he recommended was the low strength ASPIRIN REGIMEN BAYER (81mg) that
> people use on a regular basis to "thin" the blood. Aspirin does not actually
> change the viscosity of the blood but rather reduces the tendency for
> platelets to form. It is suspected that platelets form around micronuclei
> that have grown to a certain size in divers, contributing to the chances of
> DCS. Some divers expecting extreme or
> multiple exposures take aspirin early in the diving day for this beneficial
> effect.
>
> I'm sorry I don't know the best time frame for taking this particular dose
> before diving. Perhaps someone else can advise us on this.
> Available off the shelf in any drug store.
>
> No! Thank God, I don't have a heart condition except, of course, for being in
> love for which there is no treatment or cure.
There's a cure apparently, some people call it marriage, did not work
for me though, I'm still in love.
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