Could I have Malaria?!
Question: Could I have Malaria?
Last August I went oversees to visit some family... my and a bunch of my family members decided to go to a farm, its not really a farm its like a place where you can swim and have fun but there are a lot of plants and stuff around... ANYWAY, I went into a bathroom which looked really old and I started doing my thing the moment my piss reached the toilet like a 30-40 ugly huge mosquitoes came at me .... no joke I ran out still pissing my pants and I told the land owner and he said that I used the wrong bathroom.
I heard that Malaria takes time to show symptoms (even 9 months) is it possible that I have malaria from the 10-15 seconds i spent with those toilet mosquitoes???????
Answers:
I just realized you were visiting family from overseas many months ago. You'll definitely know when you have malaria. You'll get fevers, chills, and your urine will turn to dark from the hemolysis (red blood cell destruction).
Incubation can be short, but it can also be as long as years (1-3years), depending on the strain of malaria present in the region. You can look up the malaria present in the region that you visited, and then google their incubation time.
Blood tests may miss it during incubation, unless you do invasive tests like liver biopsies (because that's where they incubate). If your doctor feels you are at significant risk, then your doctor may decide to treat you empirically (i.e. just treat you to be safe). The drugs are nasty though, so weigh the risks and benefits.
Good luck!
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http://www.malariasite.com/malaria/namer…
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To catch malaria, you need to be bitten by a mosquito that has already bitten someone else who has malaria. Depending on where you are, that may be a real risk or it may be completely improbable. If malaria is not present in people where you got bitten, you most likely have nothing to worry about.
Malaria symptoms usually develop within a month after infection, not after nine months. The usual incubation period is 10 to 30 days.
I don't know. You could ask your doctor about it. He might be able to do a test to see if you were exposed to it.
Do you even feel ill? You didnt list any symptoms..