Effects of Stone Herbal Mixture on Antioxidant Levels

Cerebral Malaria is a form of severe (complicated) malaria in which there are alterations in the neurologic functions of the individual (evidenced by multiple convulsion and unarousable coma) usually due to Plasmodium falciparum.It was a descriptive,cross-sectional study, conducted at a tertiary health facility in Southwest Nigeria over a 6-month period during which consecutive children, aged 6 months to 15 years with confirmed features of severe malaria according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria were recruited.Subsequently, those with defining features of cerebral malaria were identified and focused on.Sixty-eight participants (out of a total of 165 children with severe malaria i.e 41.2%) met the defining criteria for cerebral malaria.Sixty three (92.3%)survived while 5 children (7.4%) died.Two study participants among the survivors (2.9%) had persisting neurologic deficits (hemiparesis and visual impairment) at discharge.Cerebral malaria is rife in the west, sub-Saharan Africa.Needless mortalities are still being recorded.The attendant neurologic sequelae limits the potentials of the affected children and also disrupts the socio-economic functioning and stability of the families where these children belong to.