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title: "Travel health & malaria: symptoms, causes & treatment"
description: "Travel medicines prevent malaria, motion sickness and common travel-related illness — planned weeks before departure for best protection."
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# Travel health & malaria: symptoms, causes & treatment

Travel medicines prevent malaria, motion sickness and common travel-related illness — planned weeks before departure for best protection.

Editorial information by **Kaiser Khan**. Not clinically reviewed.

## Symptoms

- Prevention focus — malaria causes fever, chills, flu-like illness
- Motion sickness: nausea and vomiting
- Travellers diarrhoea common in some regions

## Why it happens

Malaria from mosquito bites in endemic regions; motion sickness from inner ear conflict; infection risks vary by destination.

## Treatment

Destination-matched anti-malaria tablets started before travel, during stay and after return. Travel sickness tablets taken before journeys.

## Self-care that helps

Check NHS Fit for Travel guidance; insect repellent and bed nets in malaria zones; hand hygiene for food and water safety.

## When to get help

Fever within 3 months of returning from a malaria area — urgent same-day medical assessment.

[See our travel health & malaria support →](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/medicines/malaria/)

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[Jet lag treatment UK: tablets, sleep tips and east-west travel — How to treat jet lag when flying from the UK — sleep-timing tablet use, light exposure, sleep hygiene and assessed options for long-haul travel.](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/guides/jet-lag-treatment-uk/)

[Travel health UK: malaria tablets and when to start before travel — Anti-malaria tablets for UK travellers — destination matching, start dates, side effects and Fit for Travel guidance.](https://www.sanarahealth.co.uk/guides/travel-health-malaria-pills-uk/)

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