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Guide For Understanding The Symptoms Of Malaria

A malaria infected person begins to show the symptoms within 10 to 30 days after the bite from the infected mosquito. The infection can give way to recurrent attacks and symptoms that can vary from mild to severe depending on the type of plasmodium parasite the person is infected with. The infection by means of plasmodium falciparum can show symptoms within 7 to 14 days, other types like plasmodium ovale and vivax begins to show symptoms during 8 to 14 days and plasmodium malariae takes 7 to 30 days. But there can be differences in these timeframes depending on the person. Sometimes it is possible to have a relapsing type of malaria which can occur several years after infection. This type of malaria may emerge even if you take anti malarial drugs. This is because the parasites may infect liver and continue there dormant for months or years. Usually plasmodium types like vivax, ovale and malariae persist in the liver.

A person may experience mild symptoms like fever, chills etc and can also have severe symptoms such as kidney failures, coma etc. Even the severe cases can be cured well with timely and proper treatment. Most of the symptoms are not permanent and can appear and disappear during the time frames. The reason behind this is that the parasite is carrying out its lifecycle by developing, maturing and reproducing and thereby again infecting more and more blood cells and liver cells. In the case of mild malaria symptoms may persist for six to ten hours and then gets better. The return of the symptoms varies from type to type. Severity of symptoms is generally seen in people with low immunity like people who are not in malaria infected areas, pregnant women and young children.

Generally mild symptoms comprise of moderate to severe shaking chills, fever, sweating followed by lowering of temperature, rigors, head ache, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, slight jaundice, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, cough, enlarged liver and spleen, muscle or back pain, anemia and general fatigue. The severe cases normally occur because of plasmodium falciparum which can result in organ failure, problem with blood and metabolism. The general symptoms in severe cases are kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, severe anemia, pulmonary edema, acute respiratory distress syndrome, bleeding associated with problems in blood clotting and even death.

In pregnant women there can be child with low birth weight, premature delivery, delayed growth and miscarriage. It is always wise to take preventive measures in order to stay protected from malaria. The stagnant water where the anopheles mosquitoes breed must be drained off and you must protect yourself with an effective mosquito repellent in order to avoid mosquito bites. Try to use natural mosquito repellents so that you need not have to be anxious about the deteriorating side effects. Nowadays an efficient soap is developed after a research done in Australia and china for competent mosquito protection namely skin armour deep woods outdoor soap. This soap from skin armour is made purely from efficient natural oils that can ward off the mosquitoes for long hours.

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Cory Thiarello writing for Skin Armour. Skin Armour is the home of one of the most effective and safe natural mosquito repellent products available at the moment.

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