To the person whose physician is prescribing doxycycline as a prophylactic to prevent contracting non-choloroquine-resistant malaria: You are getting poor medical advice. Doxycycline has been on occasion recommended for malaria prophylaxis, but ONLY in situations where chloroquine is not available and the risk is high.
There is no reason why anyone planning a trip to the jungles of Belize from any Western country should not be able to obtain chloroquine. While chloroquine is overpriced in the US (it's ten times the price you would pay anywhere in Central America) it is easily available.
Unfortunately, some American physicians are prone to dispense antibiotics like candy, even when there is no good reason for taking them. As a result, there is a growing problem with antibiotic resistant illness in the US. There is no good reason to expose your system to an unnecessary course of antiobiotic. If you are only going to Ambergris Caye, your risk of contracting malaria is so slight (nothing is ever 100% tisk free) that it makes taking any kind of prophylactic questionable. If you feel you want to take something anyway, get your doc to write a prescription for chloroquine. If he doesn't know what that is, tell him to go to
www.malaria.org and do a bit of research, or call a tropical medicine specialist. If your pharmacy doesn't have it, call another one.
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