Malaria? Really?!
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
August 2, 2012 6:54am CST
A FB friend of mine's father has it in the US right now, the doctors said due to the warm winter we had. He is in the hospital right now and they're waiting on a special drug that had to be ordered for it. Otherwise he has jauntice also. Scary stuff! Who would have thought the disease could be still around, the nurse there said they had like 3 other cases of it this year in that state. So be careful of those ticks and mosquitoes! Spray with repellants. Don't go out much in the evening if you don't have to. Drain all standing water around the premises, and do not think they won't bite you.
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5 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
14 Aug 12
Can't say I'm surprised. Of course I'm from Louisiana where mosquito are every where. You have to worry about Malaria and West Nile Virus. When I was growing up a guy would drive a truck that would expel chemicals (can you imagine what I was exposed to lol) that would kill off all the mosquitoes. Maybe that needs to be brought back.
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@NailTech (6874)
• United States
14 Aug 12
Those chemicals can be harmful to humans but they do kill off the mosquitoes. I don't even wanna know what kinds of harmful stuff people are exposed to when those chemicals are released, ugh. My least fave thing about summer is the bugs, besides the humidity and the fact that every year something bad happens concerning $$ right before and/or after my birthday! :( The only good thing that happened on/before my birthday is getting my current cat (KC) some 4or so years ago.
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@saintone71 (16)
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15 Aug 12
hello friends,....
sorry i am from Indonesia, with humility i just wanted to share the experience of malaria in Indonesia, maybe able to add to the knowledge of the reader, major cities in Indonesia in western Indonesia, malaria is very rare, but particularly in eastern Indonesia and Papua, as the experience i had was malaria very much the human spirit takes the doctors in town of Papua have been very adept at dealing with malaria, as i've ever experienced as a people do not panic....see a doctor immediately and maintain stamina as much as possible by entering the food into the body though frequent nausea and 'vomiting', often in hospital, patient who are conscious of papua role of hospitals and physicians, they are recovered by way of hospital stay and eat, if they can not eat, they received intravenous nutrition specified, so a short explanation of my experience....whereas the experience of indigenous people consume a lot of life experience for those who have not touched of world of medicine
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Aug 12
Hi saintone all the way from Indonesia. Wow, yes these cases are rare even in other countries. I think this man had it for three weeks until it finally made him so sick he had to be hospitalized. Thanks for the insight as to what happens in the hospital there if someone were to acquire the disease. It seems like it is the same here but they said they had to order a special medicine too for it. No idea of the outcome as that friend had a very bad time with her parents in the hospital even after she went there to visit them both, cause they are not that nice to the adult kids they have. The father is very verbally abusive to his grown children ( he was abusive physically when they were all kids too) and she said she went out of there in tears. I guess she and her sister have stopped talking to her parents again too. No idea if the brother does at all, I would just stay away from them and not even go visit them if they're in the hospital from the way she was talking about them, worst than my parents by far.
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
3 Aug 12
Malaria is one of those illnesses that just does not seem to go away, it has been known for centuries, it has one or two treatments, vaccines and preventative medication but still it has no absolute cure. I hope your friends father recovers soon and that the effects are not too bad. I have had a family member who had a really bad case of malaria and still has side effects nearly 20 years later. Then I have people who had a really mild case and seem to have no side effects at all. The reason he may get jaundice is that the parasite, it is not the mosquito but the parasite in the mosquito saliva that causes the illness, lodges in the liver and can cause a damage. Hopefully they get the medication in time and help him through the worst of it.
Hope he gets well soon.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
3 Aug 12
I think they have ordered the special medication for him, last I heard he was being tested for any infection in his bones as well. All from a lousy mosquito or tick bite, wow. I'm definetly being more careful with those critters. That is wild about the side effects after 20 years of your family member. According to my friend, her mother said the man was sick for three weeks prior to this hospitalization, so I hope he didn't let it go too far before treatment. I understand now about why the jaundice, that was informative.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
15 Aug 12
hi nailtech yes it is odd as u su ally people who get malaria are in tropical climates not here in the US but anyplace I guess can come up with mosquitoes and they do carry Malaria for s ure.You
have given some great hints as dump out any standing water and spray for mosquitoes. hope this all works out for you
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Aug 12
Yes, I thought it was very odd as well. Hopefully the cases are very slim and not carrying to everyone. I wonder if some people are more prone to Malaria over here since it's not that common. The hints have been around awhile, I'm sure most know about them, I was just reminding them in case they just forget about it all.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
2 Aug 12
Yes malaria is a very dangerous ailment if not treated on time. Once diagnosed, it causes a lot of harm to one's body. The major cause are the mosquitoes and they have to be avoided at large to avoid malaria. Mosquito repellants should be used at night, drains should be kept clean, the back yard should always be kept clean and the area where people stay should be kept clean and hygienic in order to prevent breeding of mosquitoes.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
2 Aug 12
Very good advice there, never thought about those drains. I think if there are alot of weeds and such too they might hang out more as well, things like that, so you're tight about a clean backyard. My brother here has a bucket or two filled with water that he keeps around, not good. I told him to dump it awhile back, but he won't.
