Admin_NHT Staff asked 6 years ago Anti-malaria is a drug used to treat and prevent malaria. Malaria is a serious tropical disease spread by mosquitoes.
Symptoms:-Malaria shows symptoms like high temperature, feeling hot and cold, headache, vomiting, muscle pain, diarrhea. These symptoms are seen with one or two weeks after the person gets infected.
- Cause: – Malaria is caused by a parasite known as plasmodium. These parasites spread through female Anopheles mosquitoes which bite at night. It can also spread through blood transfusion.
- Treatment: – Anti-malarial drugs are used to treat malaria. Type of medication and length of treatment depends on the type of malaria, severity of symptoms, you take antimalarial to prevent malaria or not and the patient is pregnant. Anti-malarial drugs are classified into three types according to their structure and mode of actions
- Aryl amino alcohol compounds: – Quinine, quinidine, chloroquine, amodiaquine, mefloquine, halofantrine, lumefantrine, piperaquine, tafenoquine.
- Antifolate compound: – Pyrimethamine, proguanil, chlorproguanil, trimethoprim.
- Artemisinin compounds: – Artemisinin, dihydroartemisinin, artemether, artesunate
Antimalarial drugs show different pharmacokinetic action. So the doses of antimalarial drugs are varying. Also, a different person shows different responses to the antimalarial drug because drug response varies because of genetic determination, dietary factors other health conditions. Generally, the pharmacokinetic properties of antimalarial drugs are similar in children and adults.