Cerebral malaria

What is Cerebral malaria?

A severe form of malaria disturbing cerebral circulation and function with extreme hyperthermia and headache.

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where can i confirm if my 10 year old son has cerebral malaria ?

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when a patient has fever high grade, with or without chills & rigor along with one or more symptoms like altered level of behaviur & consciousness,...

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Hi, my name is Stephen and am from Kenya. I have a sister and she s 20yrs old, the thing is that when she was around 5yrs old, she was attacked by...

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The problem with your sister is that her brain got damaged in childhood due infection of brain by malarial parasites. The brain is one such organ...

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A 4yrs old boy was here admitted with cerebral malaria with high parasitemia with continuous convulsions , hematuria,his urine output is reasonably...

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Hi, it's very unfortunate that you are dealing with this problem. High blood urea, seizures hematuria are all complications of malaria, they will...

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