136 Best Doctors for Malaria available in Kumbalangi Bridge, Ernakulam

Symptoms of malaria include
- fever, chills, headache
-nausea, vomiting
-muscle pain, fatigue
-abdominal pain, cough

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasite. The parasite is transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito. Risk factors include people living in endemic areas, and children and pregnant women, as well as their unborn children.

Malaria is diagnosed clinically by signs/symptoms and physical examination. Other tests include
-Microscopic examination of blood films
-Antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests
-Polymerasechain reaction test

Various antimalarial medications are artemisinins, lumefantrine, amodiaquine, mefloquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and primaquine. Complications like cerebral malaria require intravenous artemisinins, management of high fevers and seizures.

Yes, you can get malaria even if you had it once already. There are some types of malaria parasite which can persists for years and cause relapses. Malaria can recur periodically if proper treatment is not done as there are 4 variants of the parasite that causes the infection.