Question

your neighbor has contacted malaria what measures would you suggest to protect yourself and your family memebers

Answer 1

Malaria Prevention

How To Prevent Malaria - The Top Ten
Key takeaways

Manage your risk of malaria properly by planning your travelling and checking the risk where you’re going

Insect and mosquito repellents should be used and should be applied before sunscreen

Stay covered up, make sure you’re behind screen doors or windows at night, and always use a insecticide bed net

Make sure you take antimalarial tablets and you take them properly, every day while you’re then and as directed afterwards

Keep an eye out for malaria symptoms, such as fever, and always discuss any symptoms you do get with your doctor



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Answer 2

How to protect yourself against malaria

The prospect of sleeping outside may seem exciting, but avoid it. Mosquitoes like standing water (such as lakes) so stay away from there, too. You want a place which is well-covered and air-conditioned, because mosquitoes tend to avoid cool rooms.

This seems obvious, but closing doors and windows and checking your tent for holes is the best way to protect yourself.

Use a mosquito net

Get a net and sleep under it. Check there are no holes in the net and spray it with insecticide before tucking it under your mattress so there is no way a mosquito could get in. Cover your windows and doors in nets too, if you can.

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Keep covered

The last thing you want to do in a blistering hot country is cover up. But, the less skin on show, the better. So wear long sleeves and loose trousers rather than trousers and treat your clothes with insecticide.

Use insect repellent

Mosquitoes are more likely to bite you at evening and night, but a mosquito could well bite you in broad daylight, so apply insect repellent throughout the day as well as at night. Spray your skin and where you are sleeping, and do it often. Buy a repellent that contains diethyltoluamide (DEET), because these are most effective.

Note that if you cover yourself in suncream afterwards, the repellent won't work.

Take anti-malarial tablets

A vaccine for malaria doesn't exist, so you have to take anti-malarial tablets before you travel. Ask your doctor how and when you need to take them, which could be for up four weeks after you come home.

Don't just rely on the medicine though, as Dr Logan says: “Remember that no anti-malarial is 100% effective. So, it's important to stop contracting malaria by not get bitten by the mosquito that carries it.”