What are the symptoms of potential malaria?
Patient: Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ?  Please type your query here... Hi, im an African kid living in Nigeria, i had a sore throat four days ago, so i started ampicilin as adviced by my aunt who's a nurse, the next day a serious fever began, and i didn't have access to drugs for about eight hours into the fever, that night my mom began treatment on me for malaria, with some drug called amatem, now my skin is sensitive to touch, every morning when i wake up i have serious aches all over, and my fever comes and goes. i need your help i need to know whats wrong with me. Doctor: Hello  and thanks for sharing your concern with us.I would like to tell you that first a definitive diagnosis should be made before starting the treatment . For making a definitive treatment , proper diagnostic tests like CBC , Peripheral picture of blood thin and thick smear both , should be done . Such fever with sore throat could be a viral sickness , bacterial infection and can be any other infection as well which should be first be evaluated through proper testing and clinical examination and then after making a diagnosis , the treatment should be begun .I would recommend you to consult with your PCP STRAIGHT AWAY and don't take medicine yourself . Best Regards,DR.S.TOMAR