Malaria is a life threatening mosquito-borne blood disease.

The Anopheles mosquito transmits parasite (plasmodium) to humans. These parasites cause malaria symptoms, including fever, chills, and headaches.

Five types of Plasmodium can cause malaria in humans. Once a mosquito with the infection bites a human, the parasites multiply in the host’s (patient’s) liver before causing infection and destroying red blood cells.

Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur. Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. Malaria is a disease that typically features a fever, chills, and headaches. It can progress to cause severe or life threatening complications

For differentiation please read Dengue fever.

Types of Malaria

There are five species of plasmodium parasites that affect humans. Two of them are considered the most dangerous:

P. falciparum.This is the most common malaria parasite in Africa, and it causes the most malaria-related deaths in the world. P. falciparum multiplies very quickly, causing serious blood loss and clogged blood vessels.

P. vivax. This is the malaria parasite most commonly found outside of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Asia and Latin America. This species can lie dormant, then rise up to infect your blood months or years after the mosquito bite.

Overall malaria symptoms include:

• fever and chills
• sweating
• headaches
• nausea and vomiting
• body aches
• weakness
• an enlarged liver
• mild jaundice, which can cause the eyes to appear yellow
• a higher breathing rate
• a general feeling of being unwell.

The classic fever cycle of malaria usually lasts 6–10 hours and recurs every second day but this is rare, some types of Plasmodium, attacks may occur every third day.

It involves:

• Chills and shivering
• Fever, headaches, and vomiting, possibly with seizures in young children
• Sweating stage
• A return to usual temperatures that accompanies fatigue

Severe malaria

In some cases, malaria can progress and affect vital body organs. At this point, malaria parasites have affected over 5% of the red blood cells.

Symptoms include:

• severe anemia
• blood in the urine
• changes in blood clotting
• impaired consciousness
• changes in behavior
• high acidity in the blood and body fluids
• seizures
• coma.

Complications

Possible complications of malaria include:

• liver failure, which can lead to jaundice
• kidney failure
• unusually low blood glucose
• swelling and rupturing of the spleen
• shock, which includes a sudden fall in blood pressure
• pulmonary edema, where fluid builds up on the lungs
• acute respiratory distress syndrome, which affects breathing
• dehydration.

Malaria relapses

With some types of Plasmodium, malaria can disappear but return months or years later. This occurs because the parasites have dormant stages, during which there is no disease activity. However, symptoms can occur if they reactivate.

Differential Diagnosis:

The signs and symptoms of dengue fever are similar to typhoid fever and malaria. (This can sometimes delay an accurate diagnosis).

To confirm diagnosis we have to take some Lab tests like:

• Blood smear test. In a blood smear (looking blood under microscope for parasites).
• Rapid diagnostic test (RDT). Rapid diagnostic test or antigen testing looks for proteins known as antigens, which are released by malaria parasites.

RDT can provide faster results than a blood smear, but a blood smear is usually needed to confirm a diagnosis.

• Molecular test. Also known as polymerase chain reaction test, it can identify the type of parasite, which helps your doctor decide which drugs to prescribe. This test is a good choice if patient’s blood has low number of parasites or if the results of blood smear are vague.
• Antibody test. Antibody test to find out if patient have/had malaria before. It looks for antibodies that show up in the blood after an infection.
• Drug resistance test. Some malaria parasites are resistant to some drugs.

Other blood tests. Blood count and chemistry panel. This can tell us how serious patient’s infection is and if it’s causing other problems, like anemia or kidney failure etc.

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Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, Camp diarrhoea, diarrhoea from bad water and malaria, Painless watery stools (Phosph ac), Diarrhoea immediately after eating, dysentery, bloody stool, anaemia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels.

Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers.

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