What exactly does an antiinflamitory do...aspirin for instance. How does it work? What does it do to the body?

Question

Please do not respond if you are not at least somewhat familiar with medicine and all you have to say is something like, "it makes pain go away". I want to know technically how it works and what it does.

Answer 1

If you want an answer to this question then you have to come with me to the pharmacology labs at my university so you can understand everything I can say without asking any other questions.
Because such thing will not happen I will give a web sit to read from it to know more about aspirin...

http://www.howstuffworks.com/aspirin.htm

GOOD LUCK WITH EVERYTHING.....

Answer 2

NSAIDs interfere with prostaglandin synthesis in the metabolism of arachadonic acid.

Here's a diagram:
http://www.medscape.com/content/2003/00/46/65/466536/art-apt466536.fig4.gif

The stuff at the bottom of the diagram is involved in inflammation and pain. NSAIDs reduce that, and thereby also redulce pain and inlammation. Differetn NSAIDs work at different sopts in the pathway. (A few are shown on the diagram)

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) produce their therapeutic activities through inhibition of cyclooxygenase,the enzyme that makes prostaglandins.