🧡 1.6: Malarial Disease

Question 1

Forms of Malarial Disease

Answer 1

Uncomplicated & Severe

Question 2

Uncomplicated Malaria

Answer 2

flu-like

Question 3

Cyclical Symptoms

Answer 3

• fever
• chills with shaking
• sweating

Question 4

Why do cyclical symptoms occur every 12-72 hours?

Answer 4

They correspond with the death of red blood cells in each cycle of parasite replication

Question 5

Severe Malaria

Answer 5

symptoms of uncomplicated malaria plus organ failure or physiological issues

Question 6

Ways Malaria Become Severe

Answer 6

• Infections of brain & spine
• Severe Anemia
• Severe Hypoglycemia
• Sepsis

Question 7

Infections of Brain & Spine

Answer 7

severe neurological symptoms from parasites passing through blood-brain barrier such as:
- coma
- seizure
- abnormal behavior
- loss of consciousness

Question 8

Severe Anemia

Answer 8

problems with delivering oxygen to the body develop from repeated red blood cell cycles destroying so many red blood cells

Question 9

Severe Hypoglycemia

Answer 9

blood sugar levels become dangerously low from repeated red blood cell cycles using so much blood sugar

Question 10

Sepsis

Answer 10

repeated red blood cell cycles causes a massive immune response in entire body