On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:54:34 +0200, Marc Lurie
wrote:
>I have spoken with countless numbers of people who prefer to resort to
>the cure (usually fansidar or quinine) only when the get the disease.
>I guess that's a valid way to live IF, AND ONLY IF, you are aware of
>the malaria danger, you know and recognise the symptoms, and you do
>something IMMEDIATELY you think you have malaria.
Marc,
here's one of them. I don't take any prophylactics because I
spend too much time in Kenya. But I always use a mosquito net at
night in any area with any malaria risk, I use insect repellant,
and I always carry a pack of Malarone with me wherever I move.
Moreover, I always recommend to anybody who spends only a
vacation in a malarial area to take a prophylactic drug.
By the way, the stuff is expensive, but it has a long shelf
life, so you can use it for several years or hand it over to
other travellers or to people in Kenya when you no longer need
it. (Be sure you only give it to people who can follow precisely
the written instructions for the cure dose application.)
I have spent years in east Africa and never got malaria. I took
a Lariam cure dose once, but soon found out that the slight
fever had had a different cause. (But I now know better than I
ever wanted what a psychotic drug can do to you. The right
description is "horror trip". Still better than malaria though,
I guess.)
Hans-Georg
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