Be careful when you take painkillers with aspirin

Taking aspirin and ibuprofen together will affect the ability of the aspirin to work in your body. — dpa

Aspirin is a blood-thinning medicine that is taken in low doses on a permanent basis by many people with cardiovascular or heart disease.

If you also need the painkiller ibuprofen from time to time, you need to take aspirin half an hour before or eight hours after the ibuprofen, pharmacists say.