A person with malaria can have no symptoms, can feel a little bad and have some symptom or can feel very bad and have several symptoms caused by the substances and toxics that the parasite accumulates in the blood of the person. From the mosquito bite, it can pass from 1 week to 1 month until the first symptoms appear, depending upon the parasite species, with P. falciparum they appear soon and it is the responsible of more than 99.9% of the lethal episodes.
- Shaking chills
- Intermittent fever
- Respiratory distress
- Cough
- headache
- body ache
- nausea
- vomiting
- diarrhoea
- yellow skin and eyes
- dark colour urine
- convulsions
- sweating
- tiredness
- weakness
- confusion
- decrease in the level of consciousness
- coma
- death
Helth workers can physically find:
- enlarge spleen
- enlarge liver
and in the blood analyte:
- hiperparasitaemia
- hypoglycaemia
- anaemia (it can be severe if there are recurrent infections)