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)