2011年8月16日星期二

Home-Based Management of Malari

This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Karen Leggett. This is Robert Cohen.






By Karen Leggett

2004-5-30


The guide is called "Scaling Up Home-Based Management of Malaria." Internet users can find it at www.who.int. Again, www.who.int.

Mothers and health workers are told to take the child to a medical center if the fever is treated but continues after two days. Other signs of malaria include sleepiness and feeling sick in the stomach. The W.H.O. says people often take patients to traditional healers to treat another effect of malaria: severe shaking. But it says the healers should be trained to tell them they must go to a hospital.

High fever is the most important sign of malaria. Experts say children should be treated within twenty-hour hours after their temperature rises. At first, a cool wet cloth may help reduce the body temperature. But children can die within two days if the malaria becomes severe. Children must receive the correct amount of medicine. And they must take all the medicine they are given.



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