Prevention without drugs, namely by avoiding mosquito bites by:
- Using mosquito nets (bed nets) at bedtime, preferably with insecticide-treated nets.
- Smearing the body with anti mosquito bites (repellent).
- Use mosquito repellent, good fuel, and other spray.
- Installing wire netting on the windows and vents.
- Location of residence cultivated away from the cattle pens.
- Prevent malaria and mosquito bites so the infection does not spread.
- Cleaning perch / resting mosquitoes and eradicate mosquito breeding.
- Avoid home state of moist, dark, dirty and hanging clothes and a puddle of water.
- Kill mosquito larvae by spraying anti-larval (abate powder) in a pool of water or cast a fish or animal (cyclops)-eating larvae.
- Preserve the mangrove forests that mosquitoes do not breed in brackish marshes along the coast.
Preventive by using medicine. Commonly used drugs are chloroquine diphosphate, because the drug is effective against all types of malaria parasites. Rules of use are:
- While newcomers to endemic areas, chloroquine dose is 300 mg / week, 1 week before departure while in locations up to 4 weeks after returning.
- Residents of endemic areas and new residents will settle live, chloroquine dose 300 mg / week. Drug only be taken for 12 weeks (3 months).
- All patients with fever in endemic areas are given a single dose of 600 mg chloroquine if the area is plasmodium falciparum is resistant to chloroquine primaquine added three tablets.
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