Presumptive treatment of malaria in a chloroquine resistant area:: (A) Chloroquine + pyrimethamine, (B) Sulphalene + pyrimethamine, (C) Chloroquine + primaquine, (D) Sulphalene 1000 mg
Answer is B. Ans. is 'b' ie sulph lene + pyrimethamine Presumptive treatment in Chloroquine resistant areaSingle dose of 25 mg/kg body wt. sulfalene/sulfadoxine and 1.25 mg/kg body wt. Pyrimethamine combination and thereafter tab. Primaquine 0.75 mg/kg body wt.