Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of:. This drug may make you dizzy. Alcohol or marijuana cannabis can make you more dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs alertness until you can do it safely.
Limit alcoholic beverages. Talk to your doctor if you are using marijuana cannabis. Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist about all the products you use including prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and herbal products.
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. While you are pregnant, traveling to an area with malaria places you and your infant at a much higher risk for death and other problems. Discuss the risks and benefits of malaria prevention with your doctor. It is unknown if atovaquone passes into breast milk. The proguanil in this medication passes into breast milk and the effects of this medication on a nursing infant are not known. The CDC recommends against using this product for malaria prevention if you are breastfeeding an infant weighing less than 11 pounds 5 kilograms.
Consult your doctor before breast-feeding. Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects.
This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval. Examples include efavirenz, rifampin, rifabutin, tetracycline, among others. If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
Consult your doctor for more details. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose. Take your next dose at the regular time. Do not double the dose to catch up. Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medications away from children and pets. Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so.
Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company. Selected from data included with permission and copyright by First DataBank, Inc. This copyrighted material has been downloaded from a licensed ata provider and is not for distribution, except as may be authorized by the applicable terms of use. However, as always, it is best to consume alcohol within the recommended guidelines to stay safe and look after your health.
If possible, you should avoid travelling to areas where there is a risk of malaria, because pregnant women have an increased risk of the disease. However, if you are pregnant and unable to postpone or cancel your trip, it is very important that you get advice on malaria prevention before you leave.
You can book a free telephone consultation with one of our prescribing nurses, who can help you. Malarone is not usually recommended in pregnancy, as the risk it poses to mother and baby is not yet fully understood. Malarone is also not recommended during breastfeeding, as the ingredients may pass into your breast milk and harm your child. However, Malarone may be considered in specific circumstances, for example, if the benefit to the mother outweighs any potential harm to the baby.
If so, you should seek advice from your doctor on having Malarone during pregnancy. Malarone is also available for children and helps protect your family from malaria. Children, who weigh five kg or more, can take Malarone tablets. However, they will receive a smaller dose than adults. The dosing required for children will increase according to their weight, with the smallest dose usually being half a Malarone tablet a day, increasing up to three full tablets per day.
Malarone side effects are similar for children as they are for adults. If you are concerned about any Malarone side effects your child is experiencing, you should seek advice from your doctor. You can buy Malarone at one of our partner pharmacies across the UK. It is really important that you buy Malarone from a reputable source. This is because there are many fake or low quality malaria tablets available, particularly abroad.
Therefore, you should always purchase your malaria tablets before leaving the UK, so that you can begin your dose before travel as needed, but also to ensure the tablets you take will protect you effectively. If you or your child has trouble swallowing tablets, you may crush and mix this medicine with condensed milk just before taking it or giving it to your child. The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label.
The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so. The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine. If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible.
However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses. Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light.
Keep from freezing. Malaria is spread by the bites of certain kinds of infected female mosquitoes. If you are living in, or will be traveling to, an area where there is a chance of getting malaria, the following mosquito-control measures will help to prevent infection:.
Contact your doctor right away if you experience cough, difficulty swallowing, dizziness, fast heartbeat, hives, itching, puffiness or swelling of the eyelids or around the eyes, face, lips or tongue, shortness of breath, skin rash, tightness in chest, unusual tiredness or weakness, or wheezing. These could be symptoms of an allergic reaction. Atovaquone and proguanil may cause your skin to be more sensitive to sunlight than it is normally. Be sure to wear protective clothing and a hat or apply a product to the skin that prevents sunburn before going outside.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention. Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine.
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