Aspirin May Prevent Adulth Onset Asthma

 The Wonder Drug of the Nineteenth century derived from the bark of a Willow tree continues to amaze modern science.  In addition to the many household uses of aspirin, many people take it as part of a daily regimen to prevent future heart attacks.    A recent study to conducted to determine whether or not aspirin did lower the chances of a person developing a heart attack found an additional surprising result.  Adults taken aspirin who did not develop the disease were twenty-two percent less likely to have their doctors diagnosis them with the condition typically associated with allergic reactions.

Because aspirin can cause other conditions such as ulcers, taking aspirin to prevent the adult onset asthma may not be a practical solution.   Professor Ian Hall of Nottingham University estimated that if one thousand people took the drug, it would prevent three people from needing an inhaler, and childhood asthma, which has a different cause, would only be aggravated for the reasons mentioned above.