Je vais partir m'installer pour travailler à Dakar dans 2 mois. Je ne connais pas l'Afrique.
Qu'en est-il du traitement anti-paludisme pour un séjour de longue durée ? Faut-il continuer à le prendre ?
Je suis vaccinée contre la fièvre jaune et l'hépathite A. Y-a-t'il d'autres vaccins à prévoir ?
Je vais majoritairement être sur Dakar mais des ballades dans la brousse se sont pas à exclure non plus.
Merci d'avance de vos réponses, je suis un peu noyée sous différentes infos contradictoires 🤪
En général pour un long séjour, le médecin (au Sénégal) te dira d'arrêter le traitement que tu prenais, surtout si il est lourd. A toi de voir (avec ton médecin de France, qui risque de te faire une ordonnance assez onéreuse).
Je te conseille surtout d'avoir un répulsif et une moustiquaire, surtout quand tu iras en brousse.
Cordialement
dexxa
On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Saint Exupéry
Pour le paludisme, j'ai pris le traitement une fois, quand j'étais au Sénégal oriental car en plus d'etre dans la "brousse", il y avait énormément de moustiques et c'était la saison des pluies. J'y suis resté deux mois donc j'ai pris le traitement pendant deux mois ( et pendant un mois encore, une fois de retour en France )
Par contre à Dakar je l'ai jamais pris car je restais plusieurs mois et apparement ça n'est pas très bon pour l'organisme de prendre le traitement au dela de trois mois.
C'est à chacun de peser le pour et le contre. En plus de ça il y a différentes sortes de traitements ( plus ou moins adaptés à chacun ).
Il me semble que pour les vaccins j'ai fait hépatites A, Fièvre jaune (et la méningite et typhoide car j'étais proche de la population).
salut
c est pas moi qui pose la question du palu
moi je ne prends jamais de preventif depuis tes longtemps par contre repulsifs des les coucher de soleil et dodo sous moustiquaire impregnee
a plus
jipi le zanatany
le voyage permet de garder l esprit ouvert aux autres
Merci pour toutes ces infos. Je pars pour 15 jours la semaine prochaine et je vais prendre un traitement préventif.
Pour la suite et le séjour de plus longue durée, je ne vais sans doute pas continuer de traitement pour une durée aussi longue. Sauf peut être pour des séjours ponctuels dans des campements ou dans la Brousse.
Je me renseignerai directement sur place alors.
Répulsif oui et moustiquaire aussi !
Quand j'étais partie pour Dakar(long séjour), j'avais pris un préventif et au bout de 15 jours j'ai laissé tomber, ainsi que pour ma fille sous les conseils d'un médecin là bas. Je te conseil qd même d'aller voir un médecin qui te diras la conduite à suivre en cas de symptômes (si tu veux les coordonnées de celui que j'ai vu je peux te donner cela en mp car il était très bien).
En cas de séjours en brousse emporte avec toi un traitement curatif (que l'on achète en pharmacie sans ordonnance, mais le médecin pourras te conseiller sur lequel prendre) en cas de symptomes et si surtout il n'y a pas de dispensaires dans les parages. Je pense que c'est de cela dont parle Platypus : "traitement présomptif" ...
Ne néglige pas les répulsifs et la moustiquaire malgré ton traitement préventif au début. Vêtements dès le coucher du soleil.
Bon séjour là bas.
Pour le traitement anti palu longue durée demande a ton médecin mais il ya les antibiotiques DOXY qui sont remboursées et efficaces en plus de la protection moustiquaires etc....
Par contre fait le vaccin Thyphoïde c'est pas garnd chose et ça te couvre 3 ans...
Bonjour,
Pratiquant le Sénégal depuis 1991 plusieurs mois/an, il y a bien longtemps que je prends plus rien ! Dexxa et Jippi ont raison. Tous les médecins locaux le disent aussi : on ne peut prendre indéfiniment un traitement de ce type.
Il faut savoir aussi qu'il existe des préventifs homéopathiques : efficaces, sans effets secondaires et moins onéreux que l'allopathie, qui en général prescrit des curatifs, non des préventifs, bien souvent de la classe antibiotiques !
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Cordialement
Geli 😉
Après 27 ans d'Afrique, je ne suis pas encore mort et je ne prend pas d'anti-palu. Ce qu'l faut faire, c'est se protéger en période critique ( hivernage )avec des spray répulsif et en cas de doute ( se sentir pas trop bien ) voir avec un pharmacien...il existe un anti palu a prendre uniquement en cas de crise et qui est efficasse. Si vous séjourné longtemps en Afrique, vous ne pouvez pas prendre ce genre de médicaments a vie Albert
Oups! je retrouve votre msg maintenant, désolé de ne pas y avoir répondu plus tôt.
😊😊
Le traitement présomptif, ce sont ces doses d'antipaludéens curatifs que l'on prescrit aux gens qui vont dans des zones très isolées, loin d'un centre médical. Cela concerne plus les professionnels que les touristes. Cela nécessite une très bonne information sur le maniement de ces médicaments, et il reste nécessaire de se rapprocher le plus rapidement possible d'un centre médical compétent.
Voila
cordialement🙂
le paludisme est une endémique au senegal , il est transmis par l'Anopheleas gambia .le traitement préventif usuel est de 200mg de paludrine par jour.il est conseille de commencer la prise une semaine avant votre arrivée et de continuer pendant les six semaines suivant votre retour .mais puisque vous allez durer au senegal il est préferable d'utiliser un insecticide en bombe ou en lotion dés la tombée du jour surtaout si vous vous trouver dans l'interieur du pays et de dormir sous une moustiquaire imprégnée.
pour la fiévre jaune le vaccin est valabre 10ans , obligatoire.l'hépatite virale A 6 semaines .
l'eau rarement potable , pose un probleme de santé publique .il est recommandé de consommer de l'eau minérale en bouteille .si vous devez parcourir de longues distances munissez vous de comprimés pour purifier l'eau , en vente à la pharmacie
merci
Je suis partie au Sénégal l'année dernière pour un séjour de 4 mois et demi. J'ai passé 80 % de mon temps à Dakar et le reste en brousse. j'ai pris des antibio type Doxy, qui sont remboursés, et je les ai très bien supportés (attention selon les gens il arrive des réactions avec le soleil, dc mieux vaut prendre le médicament le soir).
Pour toutes ces questions, je m'étais adressée au centre de vaccination municipal: ils m'ont fait tous les vaccins et j'ai vu un médecin spécialiste des maladies tropicales... Comme j'étais un peu inquiète, ça m'a beaucoup rassurée!
Après la règle, comme tout le monde le dit, c'est de dormir TOUJOURS et quoi qu'il arrive sous moustisquaire imprégnée et bordée(penser à prendre des pinces à linge, quand y'a un trou dans la moustiquaire c'est bien pratique). Par ailleurs la moustiquaire se noue pdt la journée, sinon les moustiques sont là à vous attendre le soir...
Je n'ai qu'une chose à rajouter: bon voyage, et quelle chance!
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