AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question my child age 1 year of age has been suffering from fever,vomiting and retching,his blood test for MP(malaria parasite)
found plasmodium vivex,he has been taken coartem for three days but he did not recovered,i suspect that this medicine is right for this parasite (plasmodium vivex)or not please reply me thanks
Answer Hi Usman,
Coartem is indicated for Plasmodium Falciparum (as per the information given by the manufacturer Novartis). I am quoting the prescribing information from the site:
Coartem (artemether and lumefantrine) Tablets are indicated for
treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria infections due to Plasmodium
falciparum in patients of 5 kg bodyweight and above.
From what it appears in the information the drug has not been rightly prescibed. Please show your doctor the prescribing information given on the site: http://www.pharma.us.novartis.com/product/pi/pdf/coartem.pdf
Best wishes
Ravi Ghooi
