Malaria Treatment FAQ:
I have high fever and shivering for last 1 week. peak temp is 104 and I am reaching that everyday. I am on paracetamol and antibiotic, but there is absolutely no response to this medication. very tired now. Doctor advised blood test and took the sample. now it is negative for malaria & typhoid. doc says it is viral fever. he says viral fever can last upto 15 days. Is this diagnosis correct? Blood sample was not taken during shivering. My temperature was normal when blood sample was taken.
I have high fever and shivering for last 1 week. peak temp is 104 and I am reaching that everyday. I am on paracetamol and antibiotic, but there is absolutely no response to this medication. very tired now. Doctor advised blood test and took the sample. now it is negative for malaria & typhoid. doc says it is viral fever. he says viral fever can last upto 15 days. Is this diagnosis correct? Blood sample was not taken during shivering. My temperature was normal when blood sample was taken.
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A simple blood for MP should be done earliar before starting antibiotic and other medication. It is good to take the slide when patient has fever. Viral fever has sometimes the same type of fever of malaria. Generally viral fever subsides within 1 week. You may take another blood sample for MP test. Anyway you should not stop the antibiotic what your Doctor has prescribed. Discontinuation of antibiotic may cause resistant to some organism.Hope you come round soon.
Malaria is blatantly obvious when you look at blood under a microscope regardless of if you are shivering when the blood was taken. The malaria parasite shows up as a cross inside of red blood cells. Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella, which would most likely be killed by the antibiotic. The doc decided to go with a virus for his next guess because he had ruled almost everything else that could be causing the symptoms out. I would agree with him based on what you have said.
If it is viral, which it may be, the antibiotics you’re taking won’t help anyways; only if it were bacterial. Usually this is a diagnosis used when everything else comes back negative and it very well can be correct. The shivering is most likely being caused from your fever breaking, which means it should be desreasing soon but the MD was right; viral infections/fevers can last up to 3 weeks and there’s really nothing you can do to treat it except comfort measures (cold packs, etc.) and motrin/tylenol alternating to keep the temp down. Lots of fluids too!