Malaria: Precautions For Travel To Tropical Areas

The trip to regions with climate jungle or tropical (warm, moist and with great abundance of vegetation), such as Central America and the South, north and east Africa, north of Australia and asian zones such as India and Indochina, does not have to becoming an ordeal, simply requires extreme precautions, because if not be exposed to diseases caused by microorganisms and insects themselves in the area, as the dreaded malaria.

Malaria also known as malaria. In the world between 300 and 500 million people contract the disease each year and kills approximately three million of them. Transmitted through mosquito bite female Anopheles, which leaves in the affected parasites multiply in the digestive tract and develop in the salivary glands, achieving invade liver and red blood cells (erythrocytes),for hence spread to other organs, such as the brain.

There are four types of malaria parasites. The most serious is the "Plasmodium falciparum", this mainly in the downtown area of Africa, some areas of South America (mainly the Amazon) and some regions of India. The "Plasmodiumvivax" is lighter, and is active mainly in Central America. It is important to know the area that will visit and the type of pest there.

The first symptoms of malaria are fever, chills, headache and joints, that disappear until it kills parasites. The mosquito is located in the tropics poorest of Latin America, Africa and Asia, where the problems are compounded by the lack of health structures that control the breeding.

The Anopheles is quite sensitive to the common measures of protection ,as the use of repellents, which are essential in the tourist who visit tropical areas, as well as sleep protected with nets and avoid the outdoor activities between 18:00 and 20:00am, when mosquitoes are richer and assets.

At present there is in the market any vaccine against this disease, because the existing are being tested. But there preventive medications. The treatment is made on the basis of Chloroquine, Mefloquine or Doxycycline, according to the area to visit (in most of the countries the parasite has become resistant to Chloroquine, so that it is recommended only for Central America and the Caribbean).

Chloroquine and Mefloquine are taken once a week (before, during the trip and four weeks after having left the area malarial). The Doxycycline is taken daily. The chloroquine, is a medication inexpensive, easy to get and harmless, was the drug of choice against malaria during much of the twentieth century, was distributed throughout the world in massive quantities and even was added to the salt in some countries.




 

   

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