How can malaria be prevented in pregnancy?
A – Pregnant women in malaria endemic regions are given routine anti-malarial medications so that they don’t develop the disease. This prophylactic treatment is usually given once a week and in doses that are sufficient to suppress the infection. Other methods of preventing malaria infections are also employed for pregnant women too, these includes, using insecticide treated bed nets, reducing mosquito population and using insect repellent creams. Learn more about malaria prevention. Q – How can malaria be treatedted in pregnancy? A – If in spite of the prophylactic anti-malarial medications given, a mother develops full-blown malaria, she is then given a full-course of anti-malarial treatment. The treatment is with the same drugs that are normally used in other cases of malaria. However, the safeties of some drugs in pregnancy ( e.g. Artemisin derivatives)have not been full established. In addition, drugs like pyrimethamine/Sulphadoxine combinations are generally avoided in the first
