A patient has been taking aspirin on a regular basis for general aches and pains. She is a nervous, emaciated, 46-year-old, unmarried alcoholic. She is now at the clinic feeling weak and dizzy
She reports increasingly severe abdominal pain that developed approximately 7 days ago. You might suspect that the: 1. patient may have cirrhosis of the liver made worse by the aspirin.
2. alcoholic condition may have reduced the patient's resistance, and she has now developed tuberculosis.
3. patient may have appendicitis made worse with alcohol.
4. patient may have GI bleeding because of the aspirin and alcohol.
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Alcohol taken with any of the antiinflammatory analgesics increases the chances of GI bleeding.
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