Hi Peeps
Have just returned from my trip and decided not to take any Malaria prevention.
Pauladrin last time I took it made me so ill that I would never take it again.
I made sure that I was doused in Autan and made sure that i was covered. The mozies only seemed to be around at dawn and dusk. After that they seemed to not bother with you. I did sleep in a mozi net.
They still do bit through your clothes so they only provide limited protection. I was probably only bitten 6 times, of which 4 were from the same evening as I did not make it back to the room to put on the spray as I had been diving.
There were two danish guys taking the malarone with no side effects. They had also travelled through Vietnam/cambodia/Laos and so far haven't come down with Malaria.
I will probably try this out on my Afica trip at the end of the year (still with loads of Autan and covering up as I still get bad reactions to the bites.
Julio
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