# Aspirin & Benefits

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-benefits/388369>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 17, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-benefits/388369 "2007-01-17T20:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-benefits/388369/21 "2007-01-19T03:38:34Z")

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[QUOTE=According to Pliny]  
The “recommended dose” is a children’s aspirin, which is 1/4 of a regular aspirin.  
Since that size is obviously arbitrary, I think paying extra for the “reduced dosage” pills is a rip off by Bayer to ream the gullible.  
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On the advice of my doctor, I take one children’s size aspirin per day.

And the size is not “obviously arbitrary.” It’s the smallest does that has been studied that provides a benefit. Also, being the smallest dose, it has the lowest risk of the side effects mentioned in other posts.

I think taking 4x the recommended dose of any medicine to save about 1 cent per day is a perfect example of “penny wise and pound foolish.”

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