Malaria Online Treatment & Help

Malaria is a tropical disease spread through a mosquito bite. Some mosquitoes carry a parasite called plasmodium which can cause fever, nausea, headache, muscle pain and diarrhoea if you are infected. The condition is serious and requires immediate medical attention.

Female Anopheles mosquitoes pick up the disease when they bite people who are already infected with the disease. The females get the disease when they drain the blood from humans they need to nurture their eggs.

Once the mosquito picks up the parasite it rapidly reproduces. When the same mosquito bites someone, the parasite enters their bloodstream.

It moves to the liver where it reproduces. This leads to symptoms such as fever, nausea, headache and in the more severe cases, coma and even death.

Malaria treatments work by preventing the parasite from growing inside your liver and bloodstream by making the conditions for it inhospitable. Simply put, it prevents the parasite from growing in your body and prevents the development of the condition.

You are at an increased risk of contracting the disease in certain countries, particularly tropical ones. If you are travelling to a high-risk country, you need to take the necessary precautions to prevent malaria. The safest way to go about this is to combine anti-malaria treatment with insect repellent products or take the necessary measures to prevent insect bites.

There are different malaria treatments that are used differently, whether it’s once a day or once a week. Make sure you take the treatment for as long as it’s required.

Your doctor may suggest using the treatment for a while as a trial before your trip to determine if you are allergic to the treatment or if you develop any side effects from using it.

The tablets used to prevent malaria can also be used to treat it. If you’ve taken any of these tablets and still got malaria, you need to tell the doctor which treatment you’ve used since it will be ineffective as a treatment.

Malaria treatment will depend on where you caught the disease, what symptoms you are experiencing, the type of malaria you’ve contracted, your age and whether you’re pregnant. Malaria treatment may exhaust you, which may last up to several weeks.

Malaria is only transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito. Therefore, not all mosquito bites mean you’ll get malaria. The male Anopheles mosquitoes do not bite and other breeds of mosquito do not carry the parasite. However, you should still be vigilant and try to avoid being bitten by any mosquitoes. If you do, anti-malaria treatment can help prevent the disease from developing.

Mosquitos are most active from dusk to dawn. Make sure you use insect repellents, nets and mosquito coils to prevent getting bitten while you sleep. Wear long, loose clothes as they can help minimize the risk of getting bitten. If you are staying in wet and warm conditions, or if you perspire a lot during the night, use high concentrations of DEET (found in insect repellents).

Malaria is most frequent in tropical and subtropical areas where warm temperatures and frequent rainfalls create a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Anopheles mosquitoes require a hot, humid environment to reproduce. They are most commonly found in Africa, Central and South America, South-East Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean.

Malaria is a disease that infects the blood and is therefore only transmittable through mosquito bites, shared needles, blood transfusion and during delivery in pregnancy. The condition is not contagious and cannot be transmitted like the cold or other viruses.

Once bitten by an infected mosquito, the symptoms take between one and four weeks to develop. The parasite that causes the disease can stay dormant in the liver where it reproduces for up to a year, when the first symptoms may develop. Sometimes, this can lead to reinfection. Therefore, if you exhibit the symptoms of malaria within a year of getting bitten by a mosquito or if you return from a high-risk area, see your GP for regular screening.

The only way to know you have malaria is to have a blood test done. The parasite is visible under the microscope. This is the only way to determine with certainty whether you have malaria or not.

If you have any of the symptoms listed above and you have visited a high-risk area in the previous year make sure you immediately visit your GP.