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Increase of body temperature is generally called fever. Fever is a common disease for human being. Acute fever is also a common symptom of many diseases which may be simple or serious. Causes of Fever may be viral which may be subsiding without any treatment. A large number of children it may be a symptom of an acute severe illness. We can observe fever like this, within two month child fever is severe disease. Symptom may come out like as unconsciousness or drowsy, convulsion and unable to take food or water. If found following symptom during fever then its may be malaria, symptom are like as no cough or running nose, no rash, no ear discharge, no diarrhea, no sign of in obvious infection, fever more than five days.
Malaria is transmitted by female Anopheline Mosquitoes
Signs and symptoms of Malaria are like; patients get chills or shivering for half hours followed by high fever for 8 to 12 hours. The fever comes on sometimes daily or alternate days; during fever its seen Headache, body ache and vomiting. Fever comes down after profuse sweating. It the malaria is not treated than it causes, enlarged spleen, Anaemia, weakness and by malarial parasite affects the brain, the cerebral malaria may lead to unconsciousness. But above signs symptoms it may differ and absent in young infants. In young infants all fever with chill is not malaria. Malaria fever may be associated with respiratory or gastro intestinal symptoms. So fever should be diagnosed as to find out malaria or viral fever. As to find out malaria blood smear examination should be done. But a serious case of malaria signs symptoms are like as- 103ºf or above temperature or Hyperpyrexia, convulsions or twitching of limbs or other body muscles, blurring or irregular movement of eye balls or change in vision, delirium or incoherent speech, coma or semi- consciousness. Diagnosis of malaria cannot be confirmed on clinical signs and symptoms only it should be confirmed by microscopic examination of blood. Thick and thin blood smears are collected for microscopic examination of malaria. Old malaria infection may flare up during any other illness like after childbirth, surgery, and accidents as well as in patients suffering from other infections. Chloroquine phosphate is the treatment of malaria but we must consult with doctors.
How can we control malaria?
We can control malaria to avoid mosquito bites. To avoid from mosquito bites we can use nets at night, use mosquito repellants, we can spray houses With DDT.
Malaria is a very dangerous for human beings. Malaria is transmitted by Female Anopheline Mosquitoes which are mostly found in forest site but somewhere it found in urban arrears also. Our first duty about malaria is to save ourselves from malaria and if anybody attacked by malaria than we have to proper diagnosis for malaria with blood smears which is done by microscopic examination of blood.