antipaludics- long time in Gambia

Hello to everybody and sorry for my bad English,

I'm planning to move to Gambia for a long time and I would like to hear
about your experiencie or advice about antipaludics in these cases.
I don't want to take Lariam for so long time. Malarone is uncomfortable -you
have to take it everyday- and too expensive... Do you know about
alternative treatments?

My Europeans friends living there don't take anything. They always have
Artesunate (natural treatment derived of artemisine plant) at home and when
they notice any symptom they take it for three days. This is the advice
given to me by a volunteer Cuban doctor working there, but I'm a little
afraid because I have had malaria when I was a child living in Gambia, and
in 2003 when went for vacation (I had Artesunate but I had malaria when
arrived to Spain and here it is not authorized, then I was treated with
quinina 10 days in hospital).

I will be very grateful if anybody can tell me about his experience and
opinion.

Thanks a lot and greetings from Gran Canaria,
www.fatoumaria.com

Hello, and please don't appologise for your English... It's a lot
better than my Spanish :-)

I use doxycycline. It's cheap, and can be taken for long periods
(teenagers are often on it for years for acne treatment). I have only
one side-effect (sensitivity to the sun), but all the other drugs make
me disoriented and causes shakes and balance problems which is
dangerous in my job.

I am VERY skeptical about homeopathic preparations. I know of at least
two people who have DIED from malaria in spite of being on homeopathic
"medicines", and many more people who have had malaria while on these
"medicines".

In my experience, I don't know of one person who has contracted
malaria after following the conventional (Malarone, Mefloquine,
Doxycycline, Paludrine/Chloroquine) prophylaxis methods.

In every case where I meet people who get malaria there are three
causes:
1) They took no precautions
2) They didn't follow the medication doses correctly
3) They took homeopathic medicines.

As you know, malaria is very unpleasant, and it can kill remarkably
fast. Don't take chances with your life please.

Regards,
Marc

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:59:16 +0100, "Atlantic"
wrote:

Hello to everybody and sorry for my bad English,

I'm planning to move to Gambia for a long time and I would like to hear
about your experiencie or advice about antipaludics in these cases.
I don't want to take Lariam for so long time. Malarone is uncomfortable -you
have to take it everyday- and too expensive... Do you know about
alternative treatments?

My Europeans friends living there don't take anything. They always have
Artesunate (natural treatment derived of artemisine plant) at home and when
they notice any symptom they take it for three days. This is the advice
given to me by a volunteer Cuban doctor working there, but I'm a little
afraid because I have had malaria when I was a child living in Gambia, and
in 2003 when went for vacation (I had Artesunate but I had malaria when
arrived to Spain and here it is not authorized, then I was treated with
quinina 10 days in hospital).

I will be very grateful if anybody can tell me about his experience and
opinion.

Thanks a lot and greetings from Gran Canaria,
www.fatoumaria.com

In message
Marc Lurie wrote:


In every case where I meet people who get malaria there are three
causes:
1) They took no precautions
2) They didn't follow the medication doses correctly
3) They took homeopathic medicines.

or:
4) They stop taking it as soon as they get home, even when the
medications have to be continued for some (usually four) weeks.
(Apparently malarone can be stopped when you come home).

Slainte

Liz

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Sorry, I'm having problems with my news server and cannot see all messages
in this group, hope you can read me.
I have seen two answers by Google Groups, thank you very much.

I will ask the doctor about doxycycline. They told me about Lariam,
Resochin+Paludrine, Savarine, Resochin, and Malarone, but nothing about
doxycycline... I will ask information about it.

Thanks a lot for your opinions and best regards,

Maica