If you are traveling to malaria-prone
areas, follow these malaria prevention tips as recommended here at Martins
Library, Consultant at the Travel Clinic, and Department of
Infectious Diseases, General Hospital (SGH):
1.
Take the right type of anti-malarial
medicines for the country you are travelling to. The choice of anti-malarial
prevention tablets will also need to take into account your medical history,
age and other concurrent medications. You must take them daily or weekly,
depending on the medication choice, prior to travel and upon return from the
malaria area.
2.
Protect yourself from mosquito bites
by sleeping under an insecticide-treated mosquito net.
3.
Wear socks, long pants, long-sleeve
shirts and blouses.
4.
Spray DEET mosquito repellent onto
your clothes and the exposed parts of your skin.
5.
Make sure the room doors and windows
are closed properly and screened with gauze to prevent mosquitoes from getting
in.
6.
Spray the room with an insecticide
before entering.