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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Where in Bangkok can you buy 'Malarone' malaria tablets?
Dear readers,
My son is now traveling in India and will soon travel to Thailand and from there unexpectedly to Laos. He wants to know if you can buy the 'Malarone' malaria tablets in Bangkok that he needs in Laos.
Does anyone know where these can be purchased in Bangkok and what they cost approximately for 2 weeks of use.
Thanks in advance,
Yvonne
Yvonne, keep in mind when buying (if there is one) that you have to swallow for at least 7 days after you leave the malaria area.
Probably because original brand is very expensive. I did not find the original in Thailand, but a fake brand. Had counted on it, so brought a lot from the Netherlands. Go to hospital in Bangkok, they have good substitute there.
Please see further posts on this topic.
Hi Sabine,
Perhaps it is easy to pass on the name of that fake brand, then he already has a name of the tablets.
And we have been told that you should continue to take it for 10 days when you return home, especially if you have been in a heavy malaria area.
LOUISE
Check whether you really need to take malaria pills. We made a trip from the Netherlands to Thailand crossed 18 countries, with a converted Unimog 14 months 30.000 km. In the beginning I took malaria pills that made me sick. I have been told here at the Hospital in Chiang Mai, upon inquiry, that they prefer you not to take them. If there is really something wrong, they prefer to give medicines that are known here and they do not have to find out what you have taken and what kind of injections you have had. Just only against Tetanus as you would do in the Netherlands. We have been living here for 7 years now and the only thing we take here is an occasional paracetamol. Good luck, from the Amazing Thailand
Hello Ellis,
Quite right.
The very first time we went to Asia, we got all the syringes, pills, etc. and swallowed the rest when we returned.
This was just a mess and we did this once.
Since then, 35 years, not taken a pill. only then an injection, which had to be repeated once after 6 months and was then valid for 10 years.
What was that? Yellow fever?? I really do not know anymore.
But this is now more than 20 years ago.
So yes, what is wisdom?
LOUISE
It looks like this won't work:
From the site thaitravelclinic.com :
Availability of Malarone
Malarone is registered in Thailand and is now available in our hospital under the name “Malanil”. It is an antimalarial medication which contain two active ingredients (Atovaquone + Proquinil) in one tablet. It can be used for treatment and for prevention of malaria. World Health Organization and the US CDC list malarone as one of the recommended antimalarial prophylaxis for travelers.
Fact about Malarone in Thailand
1. Malarone as well as other antimalarials are special reserved medications in Thailand. The Ministry of Public Health, Thailand and Thai FDA have strict rules and regulations to control the use and distribution of antimalarials in Thailand. It is because we face with multi-drug resistant malaria in our region and this problem will be more severe if we could not control the use of antimalarial medication. So antimalarial medication in Thailand will be available in some university/public hospitals only.
2. Malarone is available in our Travel Clinic, however it is not intended for sale. We have a clear guideline on the use and distribution of Malarone. For example, we will not sell Malarone on internet/on phone or via messenger and will not sell Malarone to any third party. Our doctor may consider to prescribe Malarone for someone in needed on a case by case basis. Travelers are required to visit our travel clinic for malaria consultation.
We may not recommend the use of antimalarials in some travelers; while in some cases, we may prescribe Malarone as a standby medication. And in some cases, we may prescribe Malarone (or other antimalarial medication) for malaria prevention; especially in travelers who
– travel in high risk destination (such as Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ocenia)
– travel in risk area where medical facility is limited (SBET is another option)
– have conditions which might lead to severe, life threatening condition if get malaria
– currently on antimalarials for prevention of malaria but run out of it during trip
- Etc.
3. Malarone is registered as Malanil in Thailand. It is exactly the same medication, same component (atovaquone 250 mg plus proguinil 100 mg) and has been manufactured by the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). We imported this medication directly from the GSK.
4. We are also facing the problem of counterfeit antimalarial tablet especially in border area and in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. Please keep in mind that Malarone and other antimalarial medication will not be available over the counter or in small clinic. If you could find it, it is likely to be a counterfeit tablet.
Hi Yvonne,
It is not necessary to buy Malarone tablets, MMS is available everywhere, and not only works against malaria, but also against other diseases. I once got a Thai niece out of the hospital in 1 day. But the Thai medical mafia don't want that. See the link below:
http://www.mmshealthy4life.com/
Regards,
Aart
Your advice is to use one of those quack remedies which, oh wonder, is good for many ailments but which medical science, out of self-interest, refuses to see? Fine if you want to use it yourself, but don't do it to someone else ……………
Cornelis gives the general view on products that he is not familiar with, but that have proven over decades to be better than the junk of the pharmaceutical mafia. Used Master Mineral Solution (MMS) myself with a 12-year-old niece, who was able to go home the next day. Moreover, the drug itself has been used in Thailand for about 7 years. But to know more about it, read what has been written about Jim Humble's remedy and see how many thousands of people he has healed with it in Africa. But if you'd rather swallow the crap from the pharma mafia, then do it. My own Thai wife was killed with chemotherapy by the Pharma Mafia.
Hope this is allowed moderator.
Yvonne, do you want more information and help regarding. MMS and its preventive use against malaria, please email me: [email protected].
Aart, it is special to discover that you live in Thailand and are an MMS user, if you would like to contact me, please email me as above.
Nico B
Hello Aart,
Agree with you 100%.
So if you read all the articles and which scam and the silence, the buying off and dragging it to court by the big drug mafia in the USA, from which one can never win as a small man.
The so-called expiration date is all trade, so read money.
Big US pharma makes billions from this.
In America, only the army / navy / air force has done a study about this expiration date.
Which pharma says throw away after 1 year.
To use the number 10 for a moment.
8 tested medicines were still exactly the same, AFTER 10 YEARS!!
1 studied drug had decreased slightly, but was so negligible.
1 drug studied had declined slightly more, but was still fine to use without it
that one received far too little of the said ingredients and was therefore no longer adequate.
They also talked about trillions here, which saved it in money.
So the taxpayer.
Big pharma was not happy about this.
Medicines here from any hospital, you have to throw away after 12 months and buy new ones at the hospital.
If you then read on the back of the pill strip, you still have 3 or 4 years.
just plain money laundering.
But whether you have a big body like big pharma or the gasoline mafia, all the same.
Everyone knows that a car can run much more economically or on something other than benzene, but that too is all bought off.
So why not MMS then?
LOUISE
Yvonne asks where Malarone can be bought in Thailand for her son.
Aart indicates another means, namely MMS, which would be for sale everywhere, perhaps Aart can give you a concrete indication where MMS is for sale in Thailand, given that your son is already traveling.
After studying the information on the site provided by Aart, you can make a choice, Malarone tablets or MMS.
After 8 years of my own experiences, I can say that MMS has been very effective for me and my family many times, you can also take this remedy preventively as a maintenance dose, 1 x daily 6 drops of activated MMS, see the protocols. I fully endorse what Aart says about Big Pharma. Of course it's your son's decision what he wants to use.
Success.
Nico B
Dear Mr Nico B,
You write: “After 8 years of my own experience, I can say that MMS has been very effective for me and my family many times over.”
Do you mean that you and your family members have been diagnosed with the malaria parasite many times over the past 8 years, after which MMS has always caused the parasite to disappear?
Fortunately no malaria, but various other viruses very effectively eliminated, herpes, flu and many other inconveniences. You call it a quack remedy, perhaps useful, first take a look around on the site that Aart indicates and if you want to see more about it. successfully combating malaria, watch the video on this site, more than 150 people cured of malaria within 24 hours, Yvonne for. I would also recommend it to her son. http://www.jimhumble.org. Directly on the opening page you can find that video.
success,
Nico B
My comment was also based on the risk areas of Laos and Cambodia (north) and not, as in Ellis's comment, for the country of Thailand. Wasn't asked by the questioner either.
I do not agree with Aart's comment either, I sought advice from the Amsterdam Medical Center and was warned there about the counterfeiting in Thailand. That is why I advised in my comment to go to an official hospital in Bangkok, that is safe.
The fact that Malarone can make you feel sick (nausea, headache, diarrhea) is true. Fortunately in very sporadic cases, which unfortunately included me. Rest of family not. There is no reason to take the risk of malaria.
http://www.travelfish.org/feature/95
Here it is very clearly explained what the advantages and disadvantages are of taking anti-malaria pills.
First, there are the side effects and second, the chance is very small, smaller than a motorcycle accident or contracting Dengue. If you have a fever, especially if it has regular peaks, see a doctor. A "big drop" is done in no time. That is a test in which the parasite can be seen under the microscope, especially during a fever peak. Malaria can be cured with the right medicines, although it is possible that an attack will still occur every now and then back in your own country.
As a doctor, I have only taken malaria prophylaxis once and that was in the Amazon region. I was so sick of that that I said: “never again. Then I got malaria, but what do you want. I had fallen asleep tipsy on the side of the fast wide river and woke up swollen with mosquito bites. Prophylaxis had not helped there either. Yet I was less sick than when I took those pills. The local doctor then cured me with doxycycline.
Does that mean your son shouldn't take pills? No, I advise you to do this or not in consultation with an experienced tropical doctor, weighing the advantages and disadvantages.
Yvonne, MMS has been part of my travel pharmacy for 8 years, the drug that Aart also uses against malaria.
Preventive swallowing of Malaria tablets is not always necessary, depending on where you travel, whether this is necessary for Laos you can consult the GGD in NL.
Have a nice trip to your son.
Having read everything, I still stick to the advice of the Tropical Clinic of the AMC in Amsterdam.
Certainly for parts of Laos, but the official brand, expensive or not. For me this is the end of it.
Thank you for reading many helpful and unhelpful answers.
sabine.