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 > [log in to unmask] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------