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Malaria parasites can be identified by examining under the microscope a drop of the patient's blood, spread out as a “blood smear” on a microscope slide. Prior to examination, the specimen is stained (most often with the Giemsa stain) to give the parasites a distinctive appearance.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite. The parasite is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. People who have malaria usually feel very sick with a high fever and shaking chills. While the disease is uncommon in temperate climates, malaria is still common in tropical and subtropical countries.
The first symptoms – fever, headache and chills – usually appear 10–15 days after the infective mosquito bite and may be mild and difficult to recognize as malaria. Left untreated, P. falciparum malaria can progress to severe illness and death within a period of 24 hours.
Based on the assessment data, the major nursing diagnosis for a patient with malaria may include: Risk for infection related to weakened immune system. Hyperthermia related to increased metabolic rate and dehydration.
Parenteral artesunate: The recommended treatment for severe malaria. Dosing: Artesunate 2.4 mg/kg body weight (bw) administered intravenously (IV) or intramuscularly (IM) at the time of admission (time=0), then at 12h and 24 h, then once a day until the patient is able to take oral medication.
The disease, caused by mosquito-borne parasites, is present in 102 countries and is responsible for over 100 million clinical cases and 1 to 2 million deaths each year. Over the past two decades, efforts to control malaria have met with less and less success.
Symptoms and Diagnosis Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice (yellow coloring of the skin and eyes) because of the loss of red blood cells. If not promptly treated, the infection can become severe and may cause kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death.
You get malaria when a mosquito infected with parasites bites you and transfers the parasite to you. You can't get malaria just by being near a person who has the disease. Malaria is spread when an infected Anopheles mosquito bites a person. This is the only type of mosquito that can spread malaria.
Other complicationsliver failure and jaundice – yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes.shock – a sudden drop in blood pressure.pulmonary oedema – a build-up of fluid in the lungs.acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)low blood sugar – hypoglycaemia.kidney failure.swelling and rupturing of the spleen.More items...
When the parasite infects animals, it attacks in three stages: It goes into liver cells first, then enters blood cells, and finally forms gametes that can be transmitted to mosquitos.
Tertian and quartan fevers are due to the cyclic lysis of red blood cells that occurs as trophozoites complete their cycle in erythrocytes every 2 or 3 days, respectively. P malariae causes quartan fever; P vivax and P ovale cause the benign form of tertian fever, and P falciparum causes the malignant form.