Larry Lindner, MA, has had a widely syndicated column in the Health section of the Washington Post as well as a monthly column in the Health & Science section of The Boston Globe. He has coauthored four books on health topics ranging from heart disease to bariatric surgery and has written on wellness and nutrition for publications including Arthritis Today, Conde Nast Traveler, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
A reader asks why he often gets a blotchy burst of blood on the white of his eye a day or so after he takes aspirin. Our experts explain this scary-looking but usually benign condition, called a subconjunctival hemorrhage.
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