Medications To Avoid When Considering Surgery

HERBAL PRODUCTS:

• Echinacea--suppresses immune responses with long-term use
• Ephedra--Increases heart rate causes heart irregularities and increased blood pressure.
• Garlic--can increase bleeding
• Ginko--can increase bleeding
• Ginger—increased bleeding time
• Ginsing--can increase bleeding
• Kava--increases effects of sedatives
• Valerian--increases the effects of sedatives
• St. John’s Wort--Can interfere with effects of other drugs

Medications containing Aspirin

• Alka-Seltzer Effervescent Pain Reliever & Antacid (Miles Laboratories)
• Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine (Miles Laboratories)
• Anacin Analgesic Capsules or Tablets (Whitehall)
• Anacin Maximum Strength Analgesic Capsules or Tablets (Whitehall)
• Arthritis Pain Formula by the makers of Anacin Analgesic Tablets (Whitehall)
• Arthritis Strength Bufferin (Bristol-Meyers)
• Ascriptin (Rorer)
• Ascriptin A/D (Rorer)
• Aspergum (Plough)
• Aspirin Suppositories (G&W Laboratories)
• Bayer Aspirin & Bayer Children’s Chewable Aspirin (Glenbrook)
• Bayer Children’s Cold Tablets (Glenbrook)
• Bayer Time-Release Aspirin (Glenbrook)
• Bufferin (Bristol-Meyers)
• Cama Inlay-Tabs (Dorsey)
• Congesperin (Bristol-Meyers)
• Coricidin “D” Decongestant Tablets (Schering)
• Coricidin Demilets Tablets for Children (Schering)
• Coricidin Medilets Tablets for Children (Schering)
• Coricidin Tablets (Schering)
• Dristan Decongestant/Antihistimine/Analgesic Capsules or Tablets (Whitehall)
• Ecotrin Tablets (Menley & James)
• Empirin (Burroughs Wellcome)
• En Tab-650 Tablets (Mayrand)
• Excedrin (Bristol-Meyers)
• Extra-Strength Bufferin Capsules & Tablets (Bristol-Meyers)
• 4-Way Cold Tablets (Bristol-Meyers)
• Gemnisyn (Rorer)
• Goody’s Headache Powders (Goody’s)
• Midol (Glenbrook)
• Norwich Aspirin (Norwich-Eaton)
• Panalgesic (Poythress)
• Quiet World Analgesic/Sleeping Aid (Whitehall)
• St. Joseph Aspirin for Children (Plough)
• St. Joseph Cold Tablets for Children (Plough)
• Sine-Off Sinus Medicine Tablets – Aspirin Formula (Menley & James)
• Triminicin Tablets (Dorsey)
• Vanquish (Glenbrook)
• Viro-Med Tablets (Whitehall)

ASPIRIN BUFFERED

• Arthritis Pain Formula by the Makers of Anacin Analgelsic Tablets (Whitehall)
• Arthritis Strength Bufferin (Bristol-Meyers)
• Extra-Strength Bufferin Capsules or Tablets (Bristol-Meyers)

ASPERIN MICRONIZED

• Arthritis Pain Formula by the Makers of Anacin Analgelsic Tablets (Whitehall)
• Momentum Muscular Backache Formula (Whitehall)

TOPICAL MEDICATIONS CONTAINING SALICYLATE OR SALICYLATE DERIVATIVES

• Absorbent Rub (DeWitt)
• Absorbine Arithritic (W.F. Young)
• Absorbine Jr (W.F. Young)
• Act-On Rub (Keystone) Analbalm (Central)
• Analgesic Balm (Lilly)
• Antiphlogistine (Roberts)
• Arthralgen (Robins)
• Aspercreme (Thompson)
• Banalg (O’Neal, Jones & Feldman)
• Baumodyne (North American)
• Ben Gay (Leeming)
• Ben Gay Gel (Leeming)
• Ben Gay Greaseless/Stainless Ointment (Leeming)
• Ben Gay Original (Leeming)
• Braska (Keystone)
• Counterpain Rub (Squibb)
• Dencorub (Roberts)
• Doan’s Rub (Purex)
• Emul-O-Balm (Pennwalt)
• End-Ake (Columbia Medical)
• End-Ake Cream (Columbia Medical)
• Exocaine Plus (Kirk)
• Exocaine Tube (Kirk)
• Heet (Whitehall)
• Icy Hot (Searle)
• Infra-Rub (Whitehall)
• Lini-Balm (Armar-Stone)
• Mentholatum (Mentholatum)
• Mentholatum Deep Heating (Mentholatum)
• Minit-Rub (Bristol-Meyers)
• Musterole Deep Strength (Plough)
• Musterole (Plough)
• Neurablam (S.S.S.)
• Oil-O-Sol (Mosso)
• Omega Oil (Block)
• Panalgesic (Poythress)
• Rid-A-Pain (Pfeiffer)
• Rumarub (Pfeiffer)
• Sloan’s (Warner-Lambert)
• Soltice Hi-Therm (Chattern)
• Soltice Quick Rub (Chattern)
• SPD (Amer. Pharm)
• Stimurub (Otis Clapp)
• Surin (McKesson)
• Yager’s Liniment (Yager)
• Zemo Liquid (Plough)

OTHER

• Vitamin E
• Fish Oil
• Aleve (Proctor & Gamble)