Patient/caregiver was instructed upon Ecotrin and mechanism of action as follows:

1. Ecotrin is a drug belonging to the NSAID group, that when used in different doses, has a wide-ranging effects.
2. Ecotrin can be used to control fever, reduce pain and inflammation, and prevent the formation of blood clots in the body.
3. Cyclooxygenases are enzymes that help production of compounds called prostaglandins and thromboxanes in the body.
4. Prostaglandins and thromboxanes, thus produced in the body, act as important mediators promoting fever, pain and inflammation, and formation of thrombi.
5. Ecotrin, administered in different doses, inhibits the cyclooxygenase enzymes, thus inhibiting the production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes.
6. Inhibition of prostaglandin and thromboxane production by Ecotrin, thus result in control of fever, pain and inflammation, and inhibit formation of thrombi.