Softer Foods, Smaller Portions. While following a bland food diet, a patient eats softer foods such as cream of wheat, mashed potatoes or cooked rice in place of heavier starches such as bread, crackers and grain cereals.
Quinine is an alkaloid, a naturally occurring chemical compound. How it works as a medicine is not entirely clear. Quinine was first isolated in 1820 from the bark of a cinchona tree. Bark extracts have been used to treat malaria since at least 1632.
Quinine is one of several medications used to treat malaria. It is approved to treat uncomplicated (mild) malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.Quinine does not prevent malaria infections; it is used to treat an infection that has already occurred.It is often used in combination with at least one other antimalarial medication. The key to malaria treatment is starting early. With early treatment, malaria can be cured and the serious effects can be prevented.uinine is one of several medications used to treat malaria. It is approved to treat uncomplicated (mild) malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.