Iodine is available in dietary supplements, usually in the form of potassium iodide or sodium iodide. Many multivitamin-mineral supplements contain iodine. Dietary supplements of iodine-containing kelp (a seaweed) are also available. Iodine supplements might interact with anti-thyroid medications such as methimazole (TapazoleÂ®), used to treat hyperthyroidism. 2  Taking high doses of iodine with anti-thyroid medications could cause your body to produce too little thyroid hormone.
Five medications are commonly used by physicians licensed in United States to prevent malaria: mefloquine, doxycycline, atovaquone/proguanil, chloroquine, and under special circumstances, primaquine. 1 Mefloquine, chloroquine, and doxycycline work only on the erythrocytic stage of malaria.
the standard dosage for treating malaria in adults is four tablets of malarone 250 100 mg which provides 1000 mg of atovaquone and 400 mg of proguanil once a day for three days the standard dose in children is based on the child s weight children weighing over 40 kg 88 pounds are given the adult dose