One of the biggest killers in the world today is malaria. With millions
dying each year, it stands to reason that you protect yourself when you head
out to countries that are often affected by the troubles it brings. One of
the best ways to protect yourself against the disease is to take
Malarone tablets. As a prescription-only medicine in the UK, Malarone is not available without a prescription and must be sorted with your doctor or chemist.
With Malarone, there is a charge for the prescription of £10 to £25. The charge for the prescription is usually at the discretion of the organisation that prescribes it, though it tends to be reasonable across the board when you consider of what it delivers. The NHS only provides malaria tablets to a particularly small number of patients who have specific medical problems as the health service does not tend to pay for medicines for travel or recreation.
Like most treatments for exotic diseases, Malarone has side effects that should be considered. These are usually relatively mild but can include headaches, feeling sick and being sick, stomach pains and diarrhoea. In rarer cases, people must face up to issues such as dizziness, insomnia, vivid and strange dreams, depression, loss of appetite, rash, fever and coughing.
Obviously, these are nothing on the fallout that will come from not taking Malarone and then catching malaria. Symptoms of malaria usually appear ten to 15 days after you are bitten but depending on the type of parasite you
are infected with, it can take as long as a year for symptoms to make themselves known. Similar to flu, these indicators include a high temperature of 38 degrees C or above, sweats and chills, queasiness, muscle pains, headaches, coughing and diarrhoea. Cycles occur every 48 hours.
Like all other treatments for malaria, no malaria tablet is effective 100 per cent of the time, though certainly reduce the risk. Reducing the risk of mosquito bites can also happen through covering up, using insect repellents and sleeping under nets.
