Malaria | Malaria Awareness Challenge

How are you today friends? I hope you are as fine as I am. I appreciate @ahsansharif for organising this contest. Contests like this help individuals improve their well-being. I want to also appreciate the healthy steem community for their platform. I hope that this article will help anyone who comes across it to combat this deadly disease.

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What is Malaria?

This is a disease that is caused by a parasite and this parasite is transmitted into humans by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. This shows that a bite is enough to cause malaria as long as that mosquito is infected. This parasite can also be transmitted to humans through:

• Transfusion of infected blood and sharing of sharp objects.
• Mother-to-child transmission: An infected mother can transmit the parasite to her unborn child at birth.

What are the three symptoms of malaria explain it.

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Malaria can be known by some common symptoms but it can only be confirm when one is diagnosed medically. The common symptoms are:

• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle or joint pain

• Fever: This is a situation where the temperature of a person rises above the normal. The body becomes warm or hot thereby making the infected person uncomfortable. Sometimes, this fever is accompanied by shaking of the whole body (chills)

• Headache: Headache is when a person feels pain in any part of his head which may be mild or acute.

• Muscle or joint pain: This is a situation where a person feels very weak and also experiences some pains in his muscles or joints.

How does malaria affect our lives?

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If malaria is not well treated or if allowed to stay long in our bodies, it affects our lives in the following areas:

• If the malaria parasite becomes too much in the blood cells, it causes seizures or coma. Seizure simply means loss of consciousness, which can later result in death.
• Anemia: Malaria can cause anemia which is the shortage of red blood cells in the body.
• Low blood sugar: Malaria if severe and allowed to be in the body for long tends to cause low blood sugar
• kidney failure: Severe malaria issue can damage the kidney. Thereby affecting the entire body.
• Respiratory problem: If malaria is allowed in the body for a long time, it may become severe and, in turn, affect the respiratory tract thereby causing hardship in breathing.

How to prevent malaria

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Malaria can be prevented through the following means:

• Clearing of stagnant water and bushes around us where mosquitos live and brude younger ones.
• Using of insecticide: Insecticide should be used to kill mosquitos in our rooms and surroundings.
• Sleep under nets: Individuals can sleep under mosquito nets to prevent mosquito bites which in turn causes malaria.
• Natural mosquito-repellent creams like Odomos can be used directly on the skin to prevent mosquito bite

Conclusion
Health is wealth! Let us all fight mosquitoes to live malaria-free. I invite @deetalka6, @hamza657, @emishael60 and @mini80 to also participate.

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@ahsansharif

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