What can I do when I am "Sick" and "Queasy"?

[AdrianCypher]

Hello everybody, I'm new to the game and I'm still getting to know it; I think it has great potential, but some things are not always clear.

Eating, drinking and sleeping are self explanatory, but sometimes I get a "Queasy" and/or "Sick" status an I don't know how to react. I tried moving to a different house and taking some medications but it didn't help.
How should I react?

Thanks in advance!

[Habits]

Were you recently bitten or scratched by a Zombie?

[Jack Krauser]

There's a couple of reasons why you go from queasy to sick in a short time. A) You're sleeping next to a bunch of corpses, causing corpse sickness, or B) You ate a poisonous berry or mushroom.

Fixing A is self-explanatory, just move the corpses away from your house. For B, you need to find a lemongrass to cure yourself from poisonous food.

It wasn't clear for me either. I'm also new to the game, so maybe there are other causes for Queasy->Sick that I don't know about.

EDIT: Right, it happens if you're bitten too.

[†WeedZebra†]

you are probably bitten or hanging out near dead bodies too long

[Pomp And Circumstance]

i usually keep the little health box window thing open in a corner of the screen so i can often check to see if anything is wrong with me, if it doesnt say you are scratched or bitten by a zombie its probably from hanging around dead bodies or eating bad food

[AdrianCypher]

Originally posted by Habits:

Were you recently bitten or scratched by a Zombie?

Yes, but the wound was not infected.

Originally posted by Jack Krauser:

There's a couple of reasons why you go from queasy to sick in a short time. A) You're sleeping next to a bunch of corpses, causing corpse sickness, or B) You ate a poisonous berry or mushroom.

Fixing A is self-explanatory, just move the corpses away from your house. For B, you need to find a lemongrass to cure yourself from poisonous food.

It wasn't clear for me either. I'm also new to the game, so maybe there are other causes for Queasy->Sick that I don't know about.

EDIT: Right, it happens if you're bitten too.

Well, I changed abode to avoid stinking corpses and I ate nothing found in the wilderness (still ransacking fridges and pantries throughout the neighborhood).
It must be the scratch that I got from a Zed.

Originally posted by †WeedZebra†:

you are probably bitten or hanging out near dead bodies too long

It must be the former; the latter is not possible, since I moved to a new place.

Originally posted by Pomp And Circumstance:

i usually keep the little health box window thing open in a corner of the screen so i can often check to see if anything is wrong with me, if it doesnt say you are scratched or bitten by a zombie its probably from hanging around dead bodies or eating bad food

Ok, I get it: it must have been a bite. Keeping the health tab open doesn't seem to help, as I'm not told that I was infected.

[Armagenesis]

As everyone mentioned above, there could be several sources.

If you are also stressed on top of getting sick, you are screwed. You're going to turn.
If you ate burned/poisonous food, and your health is also decreasing, you are screwed. You are dead.
If you just caught a cold or corpse sickness, you are mostly fine. It takes a few days to recover, so just stay put somewhere safe.

Add: wound infection is not Knox Infection. There's no visual cue of you turning until it's too late.

[AdrianCypher]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

If you just caught a cold or corpse sickness, you are mostly fine. It takes a few days to recover, so just stay put somewhere safe.

Add: wound infection is not Knox Infection. There's no visual cue of you turning until it's too late.

That was the detail I was missing... Well, it looks like it's time to restart with a new character.

Thanks everybody!

[Armagenesis]

Oh yeah, just to add: eating rotten food will not kill you, but will make you extremely ill if I recall.

Generally it's best to just avoid eating anything nasty, but if you are really that desperate, rotten is better than burnt.

[Yōkai]

Drink bleach.

[DrLamp]

Drinking tainted water will also make you very sick and could kill you if you drink too much of it.