help pls! rheumatoid arthritis?
in treating rheumatoid arthritis, doctors sometimes prescribe antimalarial drugs to reduce pain. my teacher told me that while taking these antimalarial drugs, patients will develop malaria later on as well due to the meds and NOT by mosquito bites. is this true? pls help!
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No. It’s definitely not true. If it were the doctors wouldn’t prescribe them.
I don’t think so. My younger sister had rheumatoid arthritis. She took antimalarial drugs, and it helped treat it without major side effects.
No that will not happen. But the most common medication that doctors prescribe when you have rheumatoid arthritis are the so called nonsteroidal antiflammatory drugs or NSAIDs. Examples are ibuprofen and naproxen.
In most people this does not happen, although there have been cases in Africa where non-Caucasians have bad reactions to some types of malaria drugs. In these cases, which can also occur in people of Mediterranean descent, the malaria drugs can cause symptoms that are very similar to malaria.