Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur. Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. Infection with one type of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, if not promptly treated, may cause kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death.
Basically flu-like symptoms (such as fever, chills, pain, weakness, muscle aches, vomiting, cough, diarrhoea or abdominal pain). Anyone experiencing any of these who has recently (in the past year) been to a malaria-risk area should visit their doctor urgently.
The symptoms of Malaria are….
– High fever more often intermittent with periodicity,
– Nausea and Vomiting,
– Malaise and Bodyache,
– Confusion, Delirium and Convulsion leading to unconsciosness in case of Cerebral Malaria (When Malaria parasites affect the brain)
Signs of Malaria….
– High body temp.
– Periodicity of febrile attack.
– Patient almost feels normal in between attacks.
– Enlargement of liver and Spleen.
– Convulsion and Neck-rigidity in case of Cerebral Malaria.
– a positive blood smear/Positive Optimal Test for Malaria parasites.