Malaria Treatment FAQ:
Why does a patient with malaria have a very high fever one day, a normal body temperature the next day, a very high fever the day after, etc…?
Why does a patient with malaria have a very high fever one day, a normal body temperature the next day, a very high fever the day after, etc…?
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Its when the malaria parasites are released into the blood causes the body to release chemicals to try to kill them, in the process a fever develops
its the way they attack the red blood cells, when they are outside the blood cells the body reacts to them causing the fever, but then when the enter the blood cells they dont recognize a infected cell and the body goes back to normal. while the malaria is in the cell thats where it replicates and then breaks out. the process takes usually a day, so thats how you get the weird pattern whith malaria
the people I know who had malaria had a fever everyday until it was gone.
Malaria patients can spike a fever everyday, every other day or every third day depending on which parasite species is responsible for the malaria in the first place. The temperatures spikes corresponds with the destruction of the red blood cells, and release of more parasites which are then available to attack previously healthy red blood cells.
Plasmodium falciparum which is responsible for the most lethal form of malaria because it attacks red blood cells of all ages, and the fever due to this type of malaria spikes everyday. While Plasmodium vivax and ovale attack only young and old red blood cells, the fever due to these form of malaria spike every other day. Plasmodium malariae also attack young and old red blood cells, and the fever spikes every third day.
Pellegrini Kitara-Okot
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