Did Lariam send Alana Cutland, a student from Cambridge, to her death … and what anti-malarial drugs should children take during their sabbatical year?

AThe nephews and nieces of nita Randall had recently planned a trip to India, like the first overseas adventure in which she started 30 years ago, in her early twenties. She gave them one advice: "Do not take Lariam!"

Randall, now in his fifties and living in Kent, knows from experience that this drug can wreak havoc on some young minds and lives. Mefloquine, also known as Lariam, "took away 10 years of my life," she says.

So she was attracted even more than most people who reported last week the death of Alana Cutland, a Cambridge student at Milton Keynes, who fell from a plane in Madagascar. She fell from a plane in Madagascar.

Cutland, 19, was suffering from hallucinations at the time, confirmed her uncle, and the Malagasy authorities reportedly investigated whether they could have been caused by Lariam, who apparently belonged to her, and which would have been linked several times. in recent years with side effects, including psychosis.

However, there is still some confusion at this early stage of the investigation as to whether Cutland would have taken another antimalarial, doxycycline, also found among its effects.