Hello,
Were you taking just chloroquine or in combination with Paludrin?
Although Larium is touted as very effective, I personally have had a bad
experience with that drug...In 1997, my young daughter not only suffered
side effects from Larium, but soon came down with a near fatal case of
cerebral malaria. After she was treated (with chloroquine injections and a
one time dose of Fansidar), the British doctor I spoke with at MRC said he
would never dream of putting his own kids on mefloquine (there have been a
few dramatic deaths from the drug in the UK) and instead put my daughter
on the chloroquine/Paludrine combination which--for the rest of our year
in Gambia--kept her malaria free as well as without any side effects. A
colleague recently informed we, as well, that during a research trip to
Kenya this summer, both her American research assistants were hospitalized
in Nairobi, not with malaria--but seizures from taking Larium. It is also
fairly generally known that mefloquine can cause a variety of
psychological symptoms--hallucinations, horrible nightmares, delusions
etc. In fact, in my professional circles (anthropologists), when someone
is being really difficult or weird, we say: "he/she must be having a
Larium day!"
These are difficult decisions, but I think it is only fair to
stress that Larium is not an unproblematic wonderdrug (not to mention
that it is obcsenely expensive--I think at this point about $10US PER
PILL!!) Ylva
On
Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Angelika P wrote:
> as from my own experience I experienced the problem of Malaria.
>
> After I stayed in Gambia for 3 good month in rain season 1998 for my marriage with my Gambian husband I finaly returned home to Germany suffering from malaria, although I took the Chloroquine that I was sold in Gambian pharmacies.
>
> I was very weak when I came to the "Berhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Deseases" in Hamburg Germany and there I was told that it was almost "too late". There I was informed, that I almost lost my life because the Chloroquine is useless against the Malaria in the West African Regions. Merfloquine/Lariam is the medication that can securely help.
>
> If you are interested in more information please reply or look at http://www.bni.uni-hamburg.de/ or http://www.dtg.mwn.de/dtg_e/indexeng.htm
>
> I would be very happy if this information could help to safe lives.
>
>
> A. Prox
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