36
VERY SEVERE FEBRILE DISEASE (Low Malaria Risk) If the child with fever
has any general danger sign, bulging fontanelle or a stiff neck, classify the child as having VERY SEVERE FEBRILE DISEASE.
Treatment Manage the child on the same lines as VERY SEVERE FEBRILE DISEASE in High Malaria Risk areas.
MALARIA (Low Malaria Risk) If a general danger signor stiff neck or bulging
fontanelle is not present, look at the yellow row. If there is no NO runny nose, NO measles and NO other cause of fever (pneumonia,
cough or cold, dysentery, diarrhoea, skin infection)
in a low malaria risk area, classify the child as having MALARIA.
• Any general danger signor Stiff neck or
• Bulging fontanelle.
VERY SEVERE FEBRILE DISEASE Give first dose of IM quinine after making smear. Share with your friends: