Anti-inflammatory<\/strong> means preventing inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs are medications such as cortisone, aspirin, and ibuprofen. These drugs reduce the symptoms of inflammation, such as redness, swelling (edema), tenderness, pain, and fever.<\/p>\n Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are medications that have analgesic (pain-relieving) and antipyretic (fever-reducing) effects and have anti-inflammatory effects in high doses. The term nonsteroidal distinguishes these drugs from steroids, which have high anti-inflammatory effects. The three most important NSAIDs are aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen.<\/p>\n Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is generally not considered an NSAID because it has little anti-inflammatory activity.<\/p>\n Most NSAIDs inhibit the activity of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and thus inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins and thromboxanes. Inhibiting COX-2 provides anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects. NSAIDs that suppress COX-1 (especially aspirin) can cause gastrointestinal bleeding and ulcers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-inflammatory Anti-inflammatory means preventing inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs are medications such as cortisone, aspirin, and ibuprofen. These drugs reduce the symptoms of inflammation, such as redness, swelling (edema), tenderness, pain, and fever. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are medications that have analgesic … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":34,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-16621","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/16621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/16621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17042,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/16621\/revisions\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=16621"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkcerrahi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=16621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}