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The first step in treating malaria is prevention. Prevention measures include controlling mosquito populations in warm sub-tropical and tropical areas of the world. This includes draining areas and objects that can hold standing water and become a breeding ground for mosquitoes, such as old tires, puddles, and bird baths. Wearing insect repellent that contains DEET, picaridin, or oil of lemon eucalyptus and wearing protective clothing that covers the whole body are also important preventive measures.
Prevention also includes taking antimalarial drugs as a precaution when travelling to high-risk areas of the world.
Antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquine, are also used in the treatment of malaria. Other drugs used to treat malaria include atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone), artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem), mefloquine (Lariam), quinine and quinidine. A combination of malarial drugs is often needed to completely cure malaria. Severe malaria and falciparum malaria generally require hospitalization and intravenous administration of antimalarial drugs.
The list of treatments mentioned in various sources for Malaria includes the following list. Always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.
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Some of the different medications used in the treatment of Malaria include:
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Resistance to chloroquine, once widely used and highly effective for preventing and treating malaria, has emerged in most parts of the world. Resistance to other antimalaria drugs also is widespread and growing. (Source: excerpt from Antimicrobial Resistance, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
Among the countries where the P. falciparum parasite causes malaria, only those of Central America have not recorded resistance to the drug chloroquine. The rapid evolution of such resistance in Africa increasingly complicates malaria treatment. Resistance to the drug combination sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine has developed in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. In some areas of Thailand, more than 50 percent of cases no longer respond to mefloquine therapy. Sensitivity to quinine is diminishing in parts of Thailand and Vietnam. (Source: excerpt from Malaria, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
Chloroquine is the cheapest (9 cents per dose) and most-used antimalarial drug, but resistance has made the drug virtually useless in East Africa and threatens its use in West African countries. WHO reports that only Central American countries have not reported chloroquine resistance. (Source: excerpt from Malaria, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
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