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Symtoms of Malaria

April 2, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION

Please tell me the symptoms of malaria.

ANSWER

Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Due to the way in which the malaria parasite reproduces in the human body, fevers occurring in a cyclical fashion (i.e. high fever one day, no fever the next day, then recurrence of fever on the third or fourth day, depending on the type of malaria) are a characteristic symptom of malaria, but may not be present in all cases. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur. Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. Symptoms usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs. When blood supply to the brain is disrupted during malarial infection, the resulting condition, characterised by seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death, is known as “cerebral malaria”, and is associated with Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly form of malaria.

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Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, Cerebral Malaria, coma, cyclical fever, Diarrhea, jaundice, Malaria life cycle, Malaria Symptoms, nausea, organ failure, Plasmodium Falciparum, vomiting

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