People living in areas where malaria is common found usually develop immunity to the disease. However, visitors will not have this immunity and need to take preventive medications. The symptoms such as fever and chills can be controlled with the Indian home remedies for cold and fever.
Before traveling overseas or other areas of your country, you need to see your health care provider. The treatment may begin 2 weeks before your trip for the prevention of malaria. It may also continue for a month after you leave the area.
There are different types of anti-malarial medications prescribed for a different area of visit. Anti-malarial medications will not completely protect you from becoming infected. You need to avoid mosquito bites by using mosquito repellents, creams, wearing protective clothing that will cover your arms and legs and using screens on windows. Maintain clean surroundings by avoiding swamps and drainage flow beside your residence.
It is also important for people living in malaria-prone areas to learn the ways to prevent the diseases. The first and foremost thing to do is administer vector control. This means staying away or controlling the vector of the disease. Controlling the mosquito population is an effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.
The most important thing is to improve the standard of living of the people by installing screened windows and using mosquito nets. Insecticide-treated bed nets or ITNs are effective in reducing malaria rate. Mosquitoes can pass through the untreated nets if there are tiny holes, but the treated nets make sure that the mosquitoes and other insects are killed.
Anti-malarial medications can also be administered that prevents the parasite from developing in the blood stream. This type of control is also known as suppression.