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Malaria Symptoms

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

QUESTION What are the symptoms of Malaria? ANSWER Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ache nausea, Cerebral Malaria, complicated malaria, fever, Malaria Symptoms, Plasmodium Falciparum, pre-patent period, relapse, severe, uncomplicated

Antimalarial Drugs During pPregnancy

August 6, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is the safest antimalarial drug to be used by a pregnant woman in her second trimester? ANSWER With regards to treating malaria, intravenous artesunate (or quinine, if artesunate is not available) should be used for the treatment of severe/complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Signs of severe and/or complicated malaria include impaired consciousness, organ failure, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: anti-malarial treatment, Artesunate, Chemoprophylaxis, Chloroquine, clindamycin, complicated malaria, drug resistance, IV, malaria in pregnancy, Mefloquine, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Knowlesi, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, primagravidae, Quinine, severe malaria

Treatment of recurrent Malaria

June 10, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION If one takes the first dose of Coartem and tests indicate presence of malaria parasites,is it advisable to take a second round of coartem, or to start on quinine? Is quinine usually administered on its own or in conjunction with another drug? At what point is malaria considered complicated? ANSWER Usually, if a first round of treatment is unsuccessful, a doctor will prescribe a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: clindamycin, Coartem, combination therapies, complicated malaria, Doxycycline, intravenous, Malaria Treatment, oral medication, Quinine, tetracycline

Malaria in the Brain

February 22, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION I would like to know how dangerous is malaria in the brain? ANSWER Only a certain kind of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, is usually associated with causing problems in the brain. The P. falciparum parasite infects red blood cells and changes their surface structure, causing them to become "sticky". These sticky red blood cells become lodged in the small blood vessels that flow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Cerebral Malaria, complicated malaria, Malaria Symptoms, Malaria Treatment, Plasmodium Falciparum, red blood cells, sequestration

Blood Transfusion and Malaria

February 21, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Do people need to receive blood if they get malaria? ANSWER Usually not. Most cases of malaria are uncomplicated and are treated using oral antibiotics. However, if the disease progresses sufficiently and the patient is not promptly treated, it can become more severe. This is particularly true for infection with Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which can lead to impaired … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: blood transfusions, complicated malaria, plasma, Plasmodium Falciparum, severe malaria

Coma and Malaria

January 25, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION My sister is in a coma and doctors said its malaria. She is on life support system. Will she come out of it? The liver and kidneys have been affected. ANSWER Without more information, I am afraid it is impossible to know what the prognosis will be. Is she receiving treatment for the malaria? For cases of this severity, intravenous quinine is often the first-line treatment for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: coma, complicated malaria, kidneys, liver, Quinine

Malaria Cure

December 10, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is the cure for malaria? ANSWER Malaria can be cured with a number of different medications, depending on then type of malaria and how far the disease has been progressed. For standard, non-complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the World Health Organisation recommends use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), such as Coartem. This is due to increasing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ACTs, Chloroquine, Coartem, complicated malaria, non-complicated malaria, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Knowlesi, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, Quinine, World Health Organisation

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