The Causes, Symptoms And Treatment Of Malaria

4. Symptoms Of Severe Malaria

Clinical symptoms of severe or complicated malaria include generalized weakness such as the inability to sit, stand or walk without assistance, impaired consciousness including a coma, convulsions lasting more than two episodes within a twenty-four hour period, respiratory distress, deep breathing, acute kidney injury, shock, systolic blood pressure, jaundice, abnormal bleeding and other signs of vital organ dysfunction. Severe malaria can also mimic other diseases such as pneumonia, typhoid fever, central nervous system infections, and gastroenteritis.