Aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is an NSAID used often to relieve minor pains, reduce fever, and alleviate inflammation. Aspirin also has an anti-platelet effect, which prevents blood from clotting normally. Hence, low doses of aspirin are administered to people who are at risk of heart attacks and strokes. Currently, aspirin is the most widely used NSAID in the world by people, with 40,000 tons of it consumed each year.

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Previcox is a prescription drug that is used to control pain and inflammation associated with dog arthritis. This NSAID should only be used for dog ten weeks or older and those weighing greater than 12.5 pounds in body weight.

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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs are drugs with analgesic (pain-relieving) and anti-pyretic (fever reducing) properties. In higher dosages, they are able to suppress inflammation as well. Being nonsteroidal means that they are used as an alternative for steroid-based medications such as cortisone that also have the same properties. The most popular examples of NSAIDs are aspirin and ibuprofen.

NSAIDs are able to reduce pain and inflammation by inhibiting the pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. In veterinary medicine, there are two kinds of NSAIDS: the new ones and the traditional NSAIDs. The difference between the two is that the former only inhibits COX-2 prostaglandin while the latter inhibits both COX-1 and COX-2 prostaglandins.

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