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People traveling to areas such as South America, Mexico, Africa, Indian, Asia, and the South Pacific should consult their health practitioners well in advance before traveling in order to facilitate the prescription of malaria drugs to prevent malaria.
The choice of malaria drugs will depend on your personal medical history and health condition as well as the duration and itinerary of your travels as some drugs work better in certain areas than others.
Although these anti-malarial drugs are taken as a preventative measure, they are potent drugs and overdose can be fatal, and for this reason, store them in childproof containers out of reach of children.
Timing is very important with this type of malaria drug, and for this reason the medication must be taken in the prescribed manner and at the precise times as indicated, without missing any doses.
Guarantee 
Taking anti-malarial drugs does not carry a 100% guarantee and people that has returned from a malaria infected area should be aware of any malaria symptoms that may develop, and should this happen, a health practitioner must be contacted immediately for the appropriate medication, since malaria is a serious disease and should be treated without delay.
Other measures
Although being on an anti-malarial drug treatment course is a must when entering a high-risk malaria area, it is still the best to take other precautions as well to avoid being bitten in the first place. Click here for some ideas.
Different types of drug therapies
Depending on your personal health history, as well as the area being visited, your health practitioner may prescribe any of the following drugs
When you have contracted malaria, and the diagnosis confirmed using both symptomatic evaluation by your medical practitioner, backed up by a malaria blood test to check for the plasmodium parasite, your doctor would prescribe a combination of medication to deal with this sometimes lethal parasite that has invaded your body by means of a simple bite of the anopheles mosquito.
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