Sickness keep coming back

[Natty]

I got vomit after eating too much , cough and sight blurry. I found out it was cholera. I took some tetra to heal. After the bacteria icon was gone, after few minutes it went back again. Any idea why?

Ps. I empty all water bottles and refilled
Was wearing skr mask

[xr ඞ]

Could be that your bottle is contaminated after being sick, so you'd need to get a new bottle after being sick. I'm not 100% sure if this is the case, but that's my impression so far.

[Natty]

Um. I thought that too but I didn’t drank any water and still get sick…

[Zucchini]

Same happened to me! Need a fire to warm up and it will be gone!

[us271934-Слава Україн]

A few days ago I had a returning illness and tried every official and home remedy suggested. Being cured and not eating of drinking anything did not stop getting sick again even though I was keeping warm and sheltered from rain. Unfortunately when you do perform all the curative actions over a relatively short period it makes it impossible to actually know what worked.
One interesting thing that was suggested is checking your gloved hands to see if they were bloody. Mine were and I washed them and put back on my gloves. After that and 5-6 other 'remedies' I got well and haven't been sick since. I am maintaining full food and water as that does help resist infections. See WOBO's series of youtubes to get more specific info.

[2High2tell]

Originally posted by XR ඞ:

Could be that your bottle is contaminated after being sick, so you'd need to get a new bottle after being sick. I'm not 100% sure if this is the case, but that's my impression so far.

yeah I got caught on this one a few times. Tricky baste-terds. Its rare but if you are sick, and drink from a bottle//canteen, you can contaminate the bottle, thus, making you sick every time u use.

This really only happens for people that have not got their immune system up yet.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Originally posted by 2High2tell:

Originally posted by XR ඞ:

Could be that your bottle is contaminated after being sick, so you'd need to get a new bottle after being sick. I'm not 100% sure if this is the case, but that's my impression so far.

yeah I got caught on this one a few times. Tricky baste-terds. Its rare but if you are sick, and drink from a bottle//canteen, you can contaminate the bottle, thus, making you sick every time u use.

This really only happens for people that have not got their immune system up yet.

I'd heard about getting sick from drinking from someone's bottle if they were sick but not from your own........hmmmm. I don't know, it seems too much like reality and logical ;-)

[Zucchini]

You simply need to warm up by a fire while medicated, and the sickness will be gone.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Originally posted by Zucchini:

You simply need to warm up by a fire while medicated, and the sickness will be gone.

OP didn't indicate he didn't do that. I know I did do it several times. 2High2tell's thoughts are more plausible imo. If your canteen has cooties then all the meds and fires will only work until your next drink if 2High2tell's statement is the reality.
The devs did officially put in that mechanism of illness transfer. What we should do is make sure we explore it's full 'area of effect'.

Added: I've found several references online about the same symptoms and for the most part the responses are of the "all you have to do variety" and usually ignore the details of the op. Just remember that the illnesses have symptoms that don't always have a 1:1 correspondence to online guides or even the dev's change logs (which are renowned for their 100% completeness lol).

And most importantly the actual disease itself is invisible and could be hiding in plain sight.

I tried to find authoritative sources on how the contamination mechanism works overall but it's all dated, hearsay or anecdotal.

[etwas]

contaminated water containers isnt a thing in dayz since 0.63.
maybe some day in the future again....
with recent changes to immunity with 1.19 im getting constantly ill, usually from drinking water from a lake/pond, which was boiled in a cooking pot before consumption.
either the boiling mechanic is broken or the immunity levels need to be waaaay up (full full stats).

[Nathan]

Originally posted by etwas:

contaminated water containers isnt a thing in dayz since 0.63.
maybe some day in the future again....
with recent changes to immunity with 1.19 im getting constantly ill, usually from drinking water from a lake/pond, which was boiled in a cooking pot before consumption.
either the boiling mechanic is broken or the immunity levels need to be waaaay up (full full stats).

ive been getting sick with a cold a lot more than often , i think snice its raining more in game ( maybe because its winter in the server im playing ** vanilla**)

but i do think immunity levels have been changed. it was mentioned in one of the changelogs . something to do with its being to effective against playerbase.

[[DOLT]Braidedheadman]

Drinking water from newly spawned containers (bottles, canteens) will absolutely get you sick with cholera, which was something I had to learn the hard way. Dump that ♥♥♥♥ out before you drink from it or pop a chlorine tablet in there before you do. Unless you're already at death's door, I suppose, the energy you'll burn by getting sick from taking a swig of diseased water isn't worth waiting until you can obtain a clean water source to replace the filth left over in that new bottle you just found.

Will say that the last time I healed myself of a recurring cholera problem was when I threw out the mask that I was wearing at the time that I puked cholera through it. I have no idea if that was coincidence, or if the devs has modeled masks as disease vectors with some sort of hidden "soiled" attribute... But they don't let you disinfect them a la rags, so that doesn't really make sense to me either.

That said, I tossed the mask away, took my 4 tetra pills over a 30 minute period, sipped and nibbled food to stay in the white, kept my cloths dry and stayed warm (no fires though, I didn't want the attention), and the disease went away, permanently, finally, after a couple of days of dealing with a recurring (and food/water expensive) problem.

tl;dr

Maybe masks are disease vectors if you've puked through them? Get rid of it before wasting precious tetra. I can't confirm. Sure would be nice if the devs let us sanitize our clothing at the very least, if they're going to carry effing diseases though, ffs. It took me ages to find that balaclava in the color I wanted, and I was not amused throwing it away.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

You can disinfect gear items with iodine and/or tincture of alcohol. Put the suspect item in hand and try to combine. If they can be disinfected you'll get prompts. I just treated a bleed wound from an infected with iodine by putting the iodine in hand. The devs are evil geniuses no doubt.

[The Marathon Man]

Stash your gear, suicide and respawn. Problem solved.

[prostmo]

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Originally posted by The Marathon Man:

Stash your gear, suicide and respawn. Problem solved.

Did mention I did that too? Got sick again soon after retrieving my gear. Disinfecting is no joke in my opinion.