Whether cilostazol and aspirin can be taken together needs to be decided based on individual differences, the condition of the disease, and so on. The combination of cilostazol and aspirin can be used to prevent thrombosis due to percutaneous coronary intervention.
Cilostazol and aspirin both have the efficacy of antiplatelet aggregation, but the mechanism of action is different, in some diseases, such as the prevention of thrombosis due to percutaneous coronary intervention, the combination of cilostazol and aspirin can be chosen for dual antiplatelet therapy, but in the combination of drugs should be aware of the risk of bleeding.
Contraindications to both drugs mainly include active bleeding disorders such as gastrointestinal bleeding, cerebral bleeding, and gastric bleeding. Common adverse effects of taking cilostazol and aspirin include gastrointestinal reactions such as loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, liver damage such as elevated liver enzymes, and may also induce tachycardia.
Cilostazol tablets have the effect of antiplatelet aggregation, vasodilatation, generally applicable to arteritis, cerebral infarction, coronary heart disease, and other atherosclerotic diseases. Aspirin has antipyretic and analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic, anti-platelet aggregation effect, generally applicable to rheumatic fever, headache, cold, cerebral infarction, coronary heart disease, and so on.
It is recommended that patients taking cilostazol, aspirin should be under the guidance of a doctor’s assessment of reasonable medication.
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