Anti-malaria pills replaced after NS man's death

last SG · 2007-09-01T14:54:16+00:00

so wat are the 2 new drugs its replaced with?

Ponders SG

The expensive one is Roche Lariam.

SAF uses it only for G6PD service personnel.

It retails at $6-7 a pop.

There was once the Coy 2IC indented wrongly and for 2 months the coy was taking Lariam...

regardless, nobody took note of it... haha

Fatum SG

remember the rumors about maloprim causing lowered sex drive ? .... Laughing

Icemoon SG

it is indented by company? Not the unit MO or RQ?

Icemoon SG

sounds like a kind of chocolate! Mr. Green

whitenoise SG

Tekong has been declared malaria-free, so chemoprophylaxis has been stopped since April this year. I'm going back to Tekong next week, no antimalarials have been indented, so I assume chemoprophylaxis is still stopped. They did issue permethrin though.

Lariam is mefloquine, the once-a-week antimalarial drug issued to most servicemen in Tekong, not just those who have G6PD. Maybe they ordered Lariam instead of the generic, but the generic looks quite cheap.

The other drug is doxycycline, taken once every day. Mefloquine is contraindicated in epilepsy, depression, mood disorders and anxiety. Neither drug is contraindicated in G6PD.

Ponders SG

During my time,

G6PD uses Mefloquine (Lariam)

non-G6PD uses locally made Dapsone.

Ponders SG

Coy 2IC prepares the nominal role to be forwarded to medical centre.

Icemoon SG

.. and medical centre never ask why so many "G6PD" personnel out of a sudden? Laughing

Hellraiza SG

heard its a common symptom among commandos

goldevil SG

if it's doxycycline then I dun nid take malaria pill . ( joking )

I used doxycycline to control my ance problem . ( if it flares , my doctor told me to bring a few to tekong in case my ance flares up . )

they say cannot take accutane .

I also take another drug to control my oil secretion .

basically my whole scap is filled with tiny dots , it wont flare up if I control my oil secretion .

snk86 SG

my platoon mate. was a nice guy, really willing to go. we was just told its liver failure, din know its cause by dapsone....

man bro. we from G P2 miss you.

tortoise55 SG

MALOPRIM'S SAFETY PROFILE HAD BEEN GOOD: MINDEF
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Letter from Colonel Benedict Lim, Director Public Affairs, Mindef

I refer to the letter, "How Safe is Maloprim?" by Jiang Zhiwei (Sept 5).

Maloprim was first introduced in the SAF in 1985, and became the SAF's
first-line drug against malaria in 1998. Up to the unfortunate incident
involving the late REC Muhd Sufian, Maloprim had a good safety profile in
the SAF. Maloprim is also one of the drugs approved by the Health Sciences
Authority for malaria prevention in Singapore.

All hospitalisations and cases of drug-related adverse reactions involving
SAF personnel are reported and tracked. Side effects to Maloprim are rare
and only a few cases of Dapsone Hypersensitivity Syndrome have been
reported among SAF servicemen over the past 20 years. The majority of
servicemen who were affected developed either rashes or hepatitis, and
they recovered fully once Maloprim consumption was stopped.

The SAF will continue to take active steps to look after the health and
well-being of its servicemen. Working closely with the National
Environment Agency and Ministry of Health, the SAF set out to make Pulau
Tekong "malaria-free". This was achieved in March this year, and the
requirement to consume drugs to guard against malaria infection on Pulau
Tekong was lifted a month later.

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