Prevention

• As we know, malaria disease has taken millions of people's life since 60's.

• Prevention infection is especially important because resistance to anti-malarial drugs is a growing problem and as far as we concern, no effective vaccine has been developed, yet researchers has never giving up for the sake of human's health.

• People belief that prevention is always better than cure. So here are some tips on how we can practice prevention act in our daily life. Remember, its never too late to start.

• In general:
• avoid mosquito bites especially at dawn and dusk -> mosquito tend to go out
• For travelers, always take precaution when visiting malaria's area
  (See below map for malaria's location reported)

• When outside:
• Do wear long sleeve and long pants whenever planning to go outside
• It is wise to use insect repellent on exposed skin
• Still, thin clothes not suggested as it can pass through it
• Use an effective repellent-> 20->35% DEET(N,N-diethylmethyltoluamide)

• When inside:
• Sleeping time!! Using bednet in your bedroom might be perfect idea
• Spraying insecticides in living area is necessary specially if you planning to sleep outside

• Anti-malarial drug:
• Taking drug dependent on what type of country you're in
• REMEMBER!! Most of it too expensive::Prophylactic->not affordable for many malaria's patients
• There are 5 regimens and each taken based on resistance exist by malaria to various drug::A,B,C,D,E
• Always take proper medication especially traveler,do take before and after visiting endemic area. This is important to cover the incubation period.

For travelers, you might wanna have a look which country for using which regimens, click here to find out more