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Doxycycline After Malaria Diagnosis

July 23, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION My daughter is 24 and in rural Uganda for 4 months. She has been diagnosed with malaria (plasmodium falciparum) and is taking treatment now. Treatment is 3 tablets of Neosidar tablets contain of sulfadoxine BP and of pyrimethamine followed tonight and for the next 3 days by 4 tablets of Lumarten in the morning and at bedtime with milk. Lumarten is a mix of artemether and lumefantrine. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: artemether, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies, Chemoprophylaxis, dairy products, Doxycycline, lumefantrine, Malaria Prevention, Malaria Treatment, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

Malaria Fever and Recovery

June 14, 2012 By Malaria Q&A 2 Comments

QUESTION My 21 year old daughter spent 4 months on a study abroad program in Dakar. A week before returning home she started having night fevers and would complain of retrosternal pain and rib and neck and shoulder pain. The next day she would be fine. The episodes came every other day and eventually it occurred to her that it might be malaria. It was evening so she went to a pharmacy for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ACTs, artesunate-mefloquine, Chloroquine, dairy products, Dakar, Doxycycline, fever, immune system, Malaria Prevention, Plasmodium Falciparum, resistance, Senegal, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, Thailand, treatment

Severe Head Pain with Malaria

May 15, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Can severe head pain be a symptom of mistreated malaria? My son just returned from an 8 month trip to Ghana. He had malaria 3 times and typhoid 1 time. He is now dealing with a severe head pain in his frontal lobe. He took doxycycline every day and when he got really sick, he took Coartem. He was finally sent home because they couldn't figure out why he has such severe head pains. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: blood test, calcium, Coartem, dairy products, diet, Doxycycline, drug absorption, Ghana, light sensitivity, Malaria Diagnosis, prophylaxis, side effects

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