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Old 02-11-2012, 09:04 AM
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Non-enteric coated aspirin, typically has a thin clear coating on it
to suppress the taste. In the old days, they had no coat at all.

The enteric coated ones originally were called Ecotrin, and historically many generic companies still make theirs orange.
But now a days with China and India, this may not be true anymore and you can not go by color perhaps.

You can chew an enteric coated one up... it is just not pleasant.
The baby aspirin is orange flavored as it was meant to be chewable. Adult aspirin is not flavored and not pleasant, IMO.

Also there are 81mg "baby" aspirin now that are coated...so be careful choosing. This is because babies don't use it anymore and daily prevention use by adults is more common and aspirin taken every day by chewing will erode the teeth, eventually.
(they are very acidic)

Got all that? alot of detail for a simple thing. NOTHING is simple anymore!
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