**For a two-week tourist trip confined to Rajasthan, bite precautions alone are consistent with current UK guidance. US guidance recommends malaria tablets.** This difference between reliable sources helps explain the conflicting advice you’ve found.

- **UK:** The [2026 UK malaria guidelines](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/malaria-prevention-guidelines-for-travellers-from-the-uk-2026/country-recommendations) classify Rajasthan within India’s low-risk areas and recommend bite avoidance and awareness of symptoms. Preventive tablets are generally reserved for exceptional circumstances.
- **US:** The [CDC’s India guidance](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/india) recommends prophylaxis for malaria transmission areas throughout India, including Rajasthan. Malarone is an option.

February is relevant to assessing exposure, but **the month alone cannot establish that you can safely skip tablets**. Your overnight locations, accommodation and activities matter. Rural stays, camping and limited access to medical care deserve particular consideration in a travel-clinic assessment. Neither source provides a dependable percentage risk for your specific two-week trip. [CDC risk assessment](https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/prevention/index.html)

For your son, **being 14 does not automatically require a different prevention strategy**, but his health and weight need checking. UK guidance specifically flags infants and young children, and people with certain medical conditions, for extra consideration in low-risk areas. Have a travel clinician review the itinerary for both of you before deciding. [NaTHNaC guidance](https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/countries/india#Malaria)

If you choose Malarone, start it **1–2 days before entering the risk area**, take it daily throughout, and continue for **7 days after leaving**. Your son’s dose depends on weight; children weighing **over 40 kg** receive the adult preventive dose. Confirm suitability and dosing with the prescriber. Carrying tablets to start after noticing bites is not an effective prevention plan. [CDC Malarone guidance](https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/hcp/drug-malaria/)

Continue bite precautions day and night whichever option you choose. **Either of you developing fever during the trip or within a year afterwards should seek urgent medical assessment and mention travel to India**, even if you took Malarone. [CDC prevention advice](https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/prevention/index.html)

Which towns will you visit, and will you have any rural overnight stays or camping?