CEREBRAL MALARIA
*THE HEALTH BOON SERIES WITH BEULAH*
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Jane Pauley
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*♨♨CEREBRAL MALARIA*
Cerebral Malaria is one of the most rarely talked about parasitic infection in this part of the world.
The World Health Organization (WHO), Cerebral Malaria is a clinical syndrome characterized by coma at least 1 hour after termination of a seizure or correction of a hypoglycemia, asexual forms of _Plasmodium Falciparum_ parasites on peripheral blood smears and no other cause to explain the coma.
_DID YOU KNOW?_
Cerebral Malaria is the most severe neurological complication of malaria infection with _Plasmodium Falciparum_ in over 575,000 cases annually. It is most common in endemic areas of Africa, with Children of those regions at higher risk.
_CAUSES OF CEREBRAL MALARIA_
The most common organism is;
👉🏽 _Plasmodium Falciparum_, which is the most violent of the Plasmodium specie characterized by isolation of parasitized red blood cells in cerebral capillaries and Venules.
👉🏽 Untreated Malaria infection.
_SYMPTOMS OF CEREBRAL MALARIA_
In Adults, Cerebral Malaria is part of a multi organ disease.
✔ Usual Malaria symptoms
✔ Coma
✔ Anemia
✔ Jaundice
✔ Shock
✔ Renal failure
✔ Abnormal bleeding
✔ Hemoglobinuria
♨ Timely treatment of Malaria Infection is germane in curbing the spread of Cerebral Malaria especially amongst Children and Adults too.
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