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)