Mefloquine is an antiprotozoal, and does not treat bacterial infections. It will not cure chlamydia.

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It is necessary to take primaquine so that it may kill all the gametocytes of p.vivax so that u do not get resistant strains of malaria parasite which is much more dangerous.

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When your fever has responded to antimalarial drugs, you are taken as cured of malaria. Primaquine removes the parasite from your liver, but then the parasite is not generally removed from liver, when you are resident of the endemic area. If you are from malaria free area or have got falciparum infection, then primaquine course will cure you of malaria.

These drugs don't interact. Mefloquine is to prevent malaria. Primaquine is to prevent relapse after you already have malaria. If you doctor feels you need them both, then you may take them. I am not sure why you would need to both prevent and treat the illness at the same time, though.

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Duocline is a antibiotic that combines two active ingredients: clindamycin and primaquine. It is used to treat various infections, including certain types of pneumonia and skin infections. Duocline works by stopping the growth of bacteria in the body.

A lot of medication is used for the treatment for Mararia. These include; Doxylar, Lariam, maraone, Mararone paediatric, Nivaquine, Primaquine, Quinine Slphate, Riament, and Vibraymcin. Since Maralira is a big disease, there are many treatments for it.

There are many different treatments available, depending on the type of malaria and the local malaria resistance patterns. Medications like chloroquine, mefloquine, primaquine, quinine, pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine, and doxycycline are used. Often people traveling to endemic areas will take preventative doses of these medications.

There is no vaccine for malaria but chloroquine is a drug of choice for suppression and therapeutic treatment of Plasmodium infection, followed by primaquine for radical care and elimination of gametocytes.

Chloroquine-resistant forms of Plasmodium can be treated with mefloquine +/- artesunate, artemisinin, quinine, pyrimethane-sulfadoxine (Fansidar) and doxycycline.

All of these antimalarials are only used for chemoprophylaxis and not as a vaccine. All in all, you can prevent infection with Plasmodium by using those antimalarials.

There are many antimalarials: Chloroquine, Primaquine, Quinine, Daraprim, Coartem, or Malarone. Most common and the oldest is Quinine.
After being bitten by a mosquito carrying malaria, a person will not notice symptoms for one week to one month. During this time, malaria parasites multiply in a person's liver before invading red blood cells in the bloodstream.

Once inside a person's red blood cells, the parasites continue to multiply and spread the infection.
Infected red blood cells eventually rupture, causing a person to experience flu-like symptoms that include sweating, high fevers and chills, and nausea.
As the disease progresses, a person's spleen and liver enlarge. Malaria may cause anemia or jaundice. In some severe cases, it attacks the brain and create neurological problems.

If the patient has P. vivax, P ovale, P. malariae, or has been in an area where there is no chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum, chloroquine is the best drug to use to treat malaria.

If the patient is infected with P. vivax or P. ovale, primaquine needs to be given as well. This drug is able to kill the liver stages of the parasites, unlike chloroquine. If primaquine is not used, the chloroquine will cure the acute attack, but the dormant liver stages will be able to cause recurrences in the future.

In cases where chloroquine resistant P. falciparum is suspected, either quinine, mefloquine, halofantrine or the artemesinins can be used. Parasites that are resistant to mefloquine are also often resistant to halofantrine. Mefloquine is also not licensed for use as treatment in South Africa. Halofantrine has been associated with cardiac side effects, and should not be used for routine treatment. Quinine was the first drug used to successfully treat malaria, and with increasing chloroquine resistance, it is making something of a "comeback". It is thought to be the best available agent for treating complicated chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria. Unfortunately, resistance to this drug is also being described.

A new class of drug is the artemesinin derivatives. This drug has been known for centuries in China and is derived from the wormwood plant. It shows great potential in being able to treat resistant falciparum malaria, and has been used often in SE Asia. Unfortunately, resistance to this agent is also being described. When these drugs are used to treat malaria, they should be combined with a second agent to try and reduce the development of resistance.

You kill the falciparum or it will kill you. First and foremost, is to be aware that every patient of malaria can be of falciparum malaria. You give total course of chloroquine to the patient. Admit him, when he does not respond adequately. The next 'drug' for falciparum malaria is 'Alum'. Give him alum of about the size of medium sized ground nut, crushed, two times a days for one to two days with sugar solution. Also start artesunate with lumefantrine combination with fatty meal. Patient will generally respond to this therapy unless you made delay in starting the treatment. Give proton pump inhibitor from day one of chloroquine therapy. Alternately you can give quinine also along with alum. After three days of therapy, with artesunte and lumefantrine, alum therapy, give the mefloquine 4 to 6 tablets. Also give primaquine 15 mg twice a day for say, 5 to 7 days. Patient must be given multivitamin preparation with no more than one mg of folic acid. Larger doses, like in injection victofol will invite the malaria, back. By the grace of God you will not sign the death certificate, if you 'care'.

You kill the falciparum or it will kill you. First and foremost, is to be aware that every patient of malaria can be of falciparum malaria. You give total course of chloroquine to the patient. Admit him, when he does not respond adequately. The next 'drug' for falciparum malaria is 'Alum'. Give him alum of about the size of medium sized ground nut, crushed, two times a days for one to two days with sugar solution. Also start artesunate with lumefantrine combination with fatty meal. Patient will generally respond to this therapy unless you made delay in starting the treatment. Give proton pump inhibitor from day one of chloroquine therapy. Alternately you can give quinine also along with alum. After three days of therapy, with artesunte and lumefantrine, alum therapy, give the mefloquine 4 to 6 tablets. Also give primaquine 15 mg twice a day for say, 5 to 7 days. Patient must be given multivitamin preparation with no more than one mg of folic acid. Larger doses, like in injection victofol will invite the malaria, back. By the grace of God you will not sign the death certificate, if you 'care'.