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Medicine for Malaria

September 16, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION is rotam and maladar malaria medicine? ANSWER I have never heard of Rotam, but Maladar is the brand name of a combination sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and is used to treat malaria. However, it should be noted that it is not recommended by the World Health Organization as a first-line treatment option, due to concerns about drug resistance, and also lack of efficacy against certain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: artemether, Artemisinin, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies, Coartem, Duo-Cotecxin, Lonart, lumefantrine, Maladar, Malaria Treatment, Mefloquine, piperaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, World Health Organization

Malaria Diagnosis

August 8, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION My body is getting hotter after taking artesunate and mtivitamen tablet, the pain subsides, but later in the evening my body starts getting hotter, I have taken almost four artesunate, yet the body pain and headache refuse to go, pls sir is it malaria or what. ANSWER Unfortunately the symptoms of malaria are quite general, and just having a fever could be a sign of malaria but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ACTs, Alu, amodiaquine, Artekin, artemether, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies, Artesunate, ASAQ, Coartem, dihydroartemisinin, Duo-Cotecxin, Lonart, lumefantrine, piperaquine

New Treatment for Malaria

May 19, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION New treatment for malaria? ANSWER The most recently developed type of treatment for malaria actually has very ancient origins. The herb wormwood (Artemisia annua) has been used in ancient Chinese medicine for hundreds, even thousands, of years to cure certain fevers. In the 1970s, a Chinese research program intensively sought new medications against malaria, as part of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ACTs, Artemisia annua, Artemisinin, Chinese medicine, Chloroquine, Coartem, Duo-Cotecxin, lumefantrine, piperaquine, Pyramax, Pyronaridine, resistance, treatment research, wormwood

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