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Can Child Be Affected by Mother’s Malaria

May 7, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION If the baby's mother has malaria, can it affect the child? ANSWER If the mother is pregnant when she gets malaria, particularly if it is her first pregnancy and particularly if she has never had malaria before, the effects on both the mother and child can be very serious. For the mother, this is because her immune system changes when she gets pregnant. This leaves her more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, anti-malarials, congenital malaria, first pregnancy, immune system, Intermittent preventive therapy, long-lasting insecticide treated bednets, low birth weight, placenta, Plasmodium Falciparum, prophylaxis

P.vivax Malaria Treatment

April 25, 2012 By Malaria Q&A 1 Comment

QUESTION Which drug should be given to a p.vivax malaria patient with deficient glucose 6-phosphate for prevention of relapse? ANSWER Unfortunately, primaquine is the only drug that is known to kill the latent liver stages of P. vivax and P. ovale. Since it can induce haemolysis in people with G6DP deficiency, this drug is usually not recommended for people with this deficiency. However, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, G6DP deficiency, haemolysis, Malaria Treatment, Primaquine, relapse

Malaria and Pregnancy

April 9, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Can your baby become immune if you're pregnant and you have malaria? ANSWER Some of the protective antibodies that the mother produces when she has malaria can pass to her baby via the placenta. There is also evidence for immune system "priming" in foetuses when their mothers have been infected my malaria during pregnancy. However, these potentially protective effects are usually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: abortion, Anaemia, antibodies, Bednets, congenital malaria, immune priming, immune suppression, Intermittent preventive therapy, IPTp, low birth weight, Malaria Prevention, placenta

Malaria Drugs Side Effects

April 3, 2012 By Malaria Q&A 4 Comments

QUESTION I was affected by malaria 5 months back. I am feeling tiered and weakness and heart trembling symptoms. Any suggestions to overcome weakness? ANSWER Your fatigue is probably not caused by the treatment—one of the potential residual effects of malaria infection is iron deficiency, which can lead to anaemia, and this can cause tiredness. Eating iron-rich foods or asking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, fatigue, haemoglobin, iron deficiency, iron supplements, Malaria Treatment, recovery time, side effects, weakness

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 … [Read more...]

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

Malaria Symptoms

March 26, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How does the virus cause the symptoms? ANSWER Malaria is actually not caused by a virus—it is caused by a microscopic single-celled parasite called Plasmodium. Several different species cause malaria in humans, the most common of which are P. vivax and P. falciparum. To describe the process in a very oversimplified way, the malaria parasites cause disease by infecting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, Cerebral Malaria, fever, haemoglobin, immune response, inflammation, parasite, Plasmodium, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Vivax, red blood cells, sequestration, synchronised bursting

Is malaria possible years after bite?

February 11, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION My child had a fever for 40 days after returning from a cruise 3 years ago. I begged the pediatrician to test for malaria because she got bit by something in Mexico but they laughed at me. She has had swollen lymph nodes on both sides of her neck for 3 years and all the docs tell me you can have swollen lymph nodes forever but now she has them in her groin and under arm on left side. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, blood count, dormant liver stages, Mexico, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, Primaquine, relapse

Teen Has Anaemia, Mom Had Malaria

November 22, 2011 By Malaria Q&A 1 Comment

QUESTION I am concerned that my 22 yr old daughter has anaemia (tired & sleepy), possibly caused by Malaria (Katima Mulilo, Namibia), which I contracted just before returning to Cape Town. I fell pregnant at that time. I was treated at the local hospital before returning home. Could it have affected the unborn fetus? My daughter has a low red blood count. ANSWER Congenital malaria … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, congenital malaria, foetus, low birth weight, malaria in pregnancy

Malaria and Anemia

October 16, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How does malaria cause anemia? ANSWER Anemia is the result of a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the blood. Malaria specifically attacks red blood cells, invading them and then undergoing multiple cycles of reproduction inside them. Once replication has been completed, the malaria parasites burst out of the red blood cell, destroying it in the process. Over the course … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, anemia, Malaria life cycle, red blood cells

Malaria and Blood Cells

October 13, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What effect does malaria have on blood cells? ANSWER Malaria survives by invading red blood cells (erythrocytes), then replicating within them several times (the exact number and timing of replication depends on the species of malaria), then, once done with replication, bursts from inside the red blood cells, destroying it in the process. As such, malaria infection decreases the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Anaemia, erythrocytes, Malaria life cycle, monocytes, Plasmodium Falciparum, red blood cells, sequestration

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