For a full description of malaria and its treatments see the link below.
2006-11-22 01:31:55
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answer #1
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answered by Linda R 7
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When you travel or live in a tropical country, you are at risk of having malaria. Malarial remedies are two-folded: treatment and prevention.
Treatment options include drugs like: chloroquine phosphate, amodiaquine, quinine, artemeter, halofantrin. Of recent, the WHO came up with ACT (Artemeter Combination Therapy) to combat widespreas drug-resistance in certain parts of the world.
Prevention is better than cure. Avoid mosquito bites. They transmit the parasite. Use insecticide-impregnated nets while asleep, or insect repellants. Some travelers take Malorone or doxycycline or Lariam for prevention.
2006-11-22 01:46:32
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answered by Prodigy 2
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Prevention are:
defogging to kill mosquitoes
use of lotion to keep out mosquitoes
throw water (flower vases, old tires ,etc) where the mosquitoes can hatch
Take in anti malarial drugs when going to high risk areas
use screen doors and windows in house.
Use insecticides to kill them
For remedies there are anti malarial drugs available in the market.
2006-11-22 01:30:13
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answered by ? 7
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Most drugs used in treatment are active against the parasite forms in the blood (the form that causes disease) and include:
chloroquine
sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar®)
mefloquine (Lariam®)
atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone®)
quinine
doxycycline
artemisin derivatives (not licensed for use in the United States, but often found overseas)
In addition, primaquine is active against the dormant parasite liver forms (hypnozoites) and prevents relapses. Primaquine should not be taken by pregnant women or by people who are deficient in G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase). Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded G6PD deficiency.
2006-11-22 01:43:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Malaria infections are treated through the use of antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquine or pyrimethamine, although drug resistance is increasingly common
2006-11-22 01:22:45
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answered by janellie 2
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there are four kinds of malaria and sometimes the therapy changes whether you have that or that, the kinds depend on where you got the malaria
2006-11-22 01:37:16
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answered by Anonymous
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