Table I.
Symptoms in children with severe malaria
| Symptoms | Percentage with symptoms symptoms (n=784) |
Mean duration of symptoms in hours (range) |
| Fever | 97.7 | 110.5 (5.0 – 720) |
| Vomiting | 65.4 | 62.1 (2.0 – 336) |
| Cough | 48.9 | 116.2 (0.5 – 720) |
| Convulsions | 37.4 | 18.6 (0.1 – 168) |
| Diarrhoea | 22.7 | 75.9 (0.5 – 434) |
| Weakness | 12.9 | 38.1 (5.0 – 168) |
| Difficult breathing | 8.9 | 47.8 (0.0 – 168) |
| Headache | 5.2 | 85.2 (16 – 336) |
| Bloody/tea colour urine | 2.7 | 33.0 (24.0 – 72) |
| Mental confusion | 2.2 | 16.6 (1.0 – 72) |
| Joint pains | 1.5 | 44.8 (18.0 – 96) |
| Muscle aches | 0.9 | 52.8 (0.0 – 96) |