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What medicine is available to treat malaria?
Chloroquine is the drug of choice for malaria. You have quinine, artemisinin derivatives like sodium aremether and artesunate, sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine combinations and many more for chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria.
Which tablets are given by a doctor to treat malaria patients?
medicne given by a doctor Chloroquine Mefloquine (Lariam) Atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone) Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar) Quinine Doxycycline
Is chloroquine a vaccine for malaria?
There is no vaccine for malaria but chloroquine is a drug of choice for suppression and therapeutic treatment of Plasmodium infection, followed by primaquine for radical care and elimination of gametocytes. Chloroquine-resistant forms of Plasmodium can be treated with mefloquine +/- artesunate, artemisinin, quinine, pyrimethane-sulfadoxine (Fansidar) and doxycycline. All of these antimalarials are only used for chemoprophylaxis and not as a vaccine. All in all, you can prevent infection with Plasmodium by using those antimalarials.
Who invented the malaria drug?
The first effective treatment of malaria actually came from the bark of the cinchona tree. Later, French chemists extracted quinine from this bark, and created chloroquine as a more useful drug.
Is taking chloroquine safe if allergic to penicillin?
Yes, chloroquine is not a related compound of penicillin.
What is chloroquine often used for?
Chloroquine is often used for treating and preventing Malaria. You can learn more about this at the Wikipedia. Once on the page, type "Chloroquine" into the search field at the top of the page and press enter to bring up the information.
Is chloroquine an antibiotic medicine?
yes
What year was chloroquine found?
1934
What do you treat malaria with?
There are many different treatments available, depending on the type of malaria and the local malaria resistance patterns. Medications like chloroquine, mefloquine, primaquine, quinine, pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine, and doxycycline are used. Often people traveling to endemic areas will take preventative doses of these medications.
What was the malaria pills mainly for in the Vietnam War?
Malaria can be a serious disease, and it is spread by mosquitoes very common in tropical Vietnam. To protect our military, Chloroquine Primiequin Quinine was given to our troops each day, along with a quinine pill weekly. That large weekly quinine pill was unpopular among troops because of a common side effect: diarrhea.
Is there an expiration of quinine?
can quinine go bad
What part of speech is the word quinine?
Quinine is a noun.
