heal a cold

[Strelok]

I can not understand , help me :
when I get sick with a cold I take medicine and get well, it won't let me disinfect my clothes and I keep getting sick. What should I do to hover from this illness ?

[Vitya]

hold evrything on white (hp, blood, food, water) and still take medicine when the bacteria symbol its gone (2-3 more med). Most of sickness its still be in your body after the cure like irl that is why doctor say when give anti biotics "take it until it runs out"

[RoY]

Cold medicine is not used for disinfecting your clothing. If you want to cure a cold you need to take Tetracycline Pills: Used as an antibiotic to treat most diseases. Take 3 but take each one at a time. As soon as the first one expire you take the next. Usually 3 pills will cure you.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by Strelok:

I can not understand , help me :
when I get sick with a cold I take medicine and get well, it won't let me disinfect my clothes and I keep getting sick. What should I do to hover from this illness ?

First, you need to determine if you have a simple "cold", or if you have a "Disease" or "Infection" .. Though NONE of these require you to disinfect your clothing to prevent getting sick again .. You can not disinfect clothing/gloves/masks, at all, in Vanilla DayZ. (possible on Modded servers).

For a "Cold", you just need to get warm and dry, and keep yourself well fed and drink plenty of liquids .. you will heal naturally in about 15/20 minutes. (time may vary depending how long you were sick).

If you have a Disease or Infection, then you need to take the correct medication for that disease/infection .. Multivitamins work on most illnesses, Tetracycline on Infections, and Charcoal Tablets for food/water poisoning/illness .. Take one pill of each type at a time, when it wears off, take another right away until cured.
Same-type meds do not stack, but you can take different meds at the same time.

[HolyRustedMetal]

Option 1: Get your water, energy, blood and health levels to full white for a while to cure it with your natural immunity. Usually the easiest way to achieve the required immune system strength is heading to the nearest water pump and drink until the water stat icon starts showing alternating up and down arrows after drinking, indicating the stat is at 100%. There's no need to be particularly warm or dry for this to work.

Option 2: keep taking tetracycline or multivitamins, or both until the sickness icon disappears, and then one more after that to ensure the disease is fully gone from your body.

In both cases, get rid of all leftover food you ate and purify/dump all water, because they are now infected by your cold/flu. In option 1 though, you can consume them safely while your immunity is still high.

[PinkPanther]

Originally posted by Vitya:

hold evrything on white (hp, blood, food, water) and still take medicine when the bacteria symbol its gone (2-3 more med). Most of sickness its still be in your body after the cure like irl that is why doctor say when give anti biotics "take it until it runs out"

Cold doesn't need antibiotics though, it's viral.
Game does a poor job of simulating health and ilness. But meh what can you do

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by HolyRustedMetal:

... There's no need to be particularly warm or dry for this to work.
...

You just can't help yourself, can you? One way or another, you are compelled to "correct" someone, somehow, and you're gonna play this "Semantics" game to do it, huh?

No, there is no "NEED" to be warm and dry .. but you know what else?
-- Being "warm and dry" allows you to build up your stats faster, with less food and water intake, BECAUSE; When you are cold and wet, you use more calories, and then, in turn, need to ingest more food and water to supply those calories that you USE being cold and wet, before you can begin to BUILD UP your stockpile of "energy" (ie full white stats).
- Being "warm and dry" makes the rest of the "system" more efficient.

So yeah, you got me grammar police, I should have used the word "WANT" instead of "need"
Now, go ahead and gaslight how you didn't quote me, you were not trying to correct anyone, and you don't use semantics to start arguments.

[HolyRustedMetal]

Originally posted by _KC76_:

Originally posted by HolyRustedMetal:

... There's no need to be particularly warm or dry for this to work.
...

You just can't help yourself, can you? One way or another, you are compelled to "correct" someone, somehow, and you're gonna play this "Semantics" game to do it, huh?

No, there is no "NEED" to be warm and dry .. but you know what else?
-- Being "warm and dry" allows you to build up your stats faster, with less food and water intake, BECAUSE; When you are cold and wet, you use more calories, and then, in turn, need to ingest more food and water to supply those calories that you USE being cold and wet, before you can begin to BUILD UP your stockpile of "energy" (ie full white stats).
- Being "warm and dry" makes the rest of the "system" more efficient.

So yeah, you got me grammar police, I should have used the word "WANT" instead of "need"
Now, go ahead and gaslight how you didn't quote me, you were not trying to correct anyone, and you don't use semantics to start arguments.

You really can't help yourself, can you?
Yes you're right, being cold increases your energy drain. So not being cold is good, if you want to build up that stat. But being "particularly warm" refers to the commonly given advice about illnesses, according to which you absolutely must be really warm (i.e. hot) and have a heat buff before the immune system, or sometimes even the meds can work. This is of course completely false.
I certainly could've explained it better, sorry.

And just to be complete; being wet does not affect the recovery or energy/water consumption. So as long as you're not cold or hot, you're golden.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by HolyRustedMetal:

... being "particularly warm" refers to the commonly given advice about illnesses, according to which you absolutely must be really warm (i.e. hot) and have a heat buff before the immune system, or sometimes even the meds can work. This is of course completely false.
I certainly could've explained it better, sorry.

And just to be complete; being wet does not affect the recovery or energy/water consumption. So as long as you're not cold or hot, you're golden.

Squirrel words and gaslight semantics.
- No one mentioned "really warm" or "heat buff".
Using your semantics though, "everyone knows" "warm" means white temperature. Not blue, not dark blue, not yellow, and certainly not red .. Normal white temp = "warm"

And just to be complete, Being WET, makes you "heavier" (reduces your Stamina), and makes you colder than you other-wise would be in the same scenario, which in-turn then requires you to exert more energy, there-by, using even MORE calories .. of which you are trying to build up a reserve of, in order to get "full white stats"
.. So yes, being "wet" is Bad, mkay?

This may seem insignificant to some, but if you are a player trying to stay alive with no meds, or not the right meds, and are having a hard time finding the resources to get food and clean water, being "warm and dry" may make the difference between surviving your cold, and not. It's just one little factor, but can be a significant help, under some circumstances.

[HolyRustedMetal]

Originally posted by _KC76_:

- No one mentioned "really warm" or "heat buff".

Where did I imply that anyone here did? I said that's a common advice which I wanted to clarify a bit. No need to take it personally just because you also mentioned warmth in the same thread.

Originally posted by _KC76_:

And just to be complete, Being WET, makes you "heavier" (reduces your Stamina), and makes you colder than you other-wise would be in the same scenario, which in-turn then requires you to exert more energy, there-by, using even MORE calories .. of which you are trying to build up a reserve of, in order to get "full white stats"
.. So yes, being "wet" is Bad, mkay?

Yes, wet clothes can make your cold temperature drop to blue. Just like damaged clothes, night time, wind, fog, high altitude, cold time of year, server settings etc. Being cold is bad, but being wet is just one of the many things that can cause it. Many times I've been well-insulated but soaked on the coast and it has no health impact. If anything, the heavier gear will conserve your energy because you can't sprint as much.

You really should stop with these weird offtopic attacks. You're welcome to message me directly if you have some feedback about my wordings, but don't drag every thread here into it.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by HolyRustedMetal:

Originally posted by _KC76_:

- No one mentioned "really warm" or "heat buff".

Where did I imply that anyone here did? I said that's a common advice which I wanted to clarify a bit. No need to take it personally just because you also mentioned warmth in the same thread.

I did not imply anything. I replied to your after-thought excuse of why you tried, and failed again, to correct someone. I was pointing out that your reason for saying what you said, made no sense, that you used a bunch of hibbity jibbity squirrel words to deny what you tried to do stealthily, rather than just own your comments and quote the person you were attempting to correct.
Oh, and I do not take it personal at all. You've proven you do this to many other people too.

Originally posted by HolyRustedMetal:

You really should stop with these weird offtopic attacks. You're welcome to message me directly if you have some feedback about my wordings, but don't drag every thread here into it.

See, here you go gaslighting again, attempting to rally support, and have others dogpile me, for calling you out on your compulsive need to correct people ..

You could have said everything you said, without this one line:
"There's no need to be particularly warm or dry for this to work."
This ^^ one line was your attempt to diminish or correct something someone else commented .. it does not matter who that was .. it matters because:
1. It has no supporting basis from the rest of your comment.
- It appears to be an afterthought, or a forced insertion for the sole purpose to contradict someone else's comment.
- It is actually contradictory, to your own comment.
2. It is FACTUALLY incorrect. (as we've already established)
- It is your opinion, as to importance of "warm and dry", but the game mechanics are not "opinions", and being "cold and wet" are detrimental to your characters health.

The only reason these things get dragged out and derail conversations, is because you keep making excuses for your impulsive and compulsive need to correct people, and then your repeated reply after reply making excuses, with your hibbity jibbity squirrel word gaslighting, until you finally make your last stand, and call for action to others, to come save you from the big bad user who is tired of your behavior.

I have not called you names, and I have not disrespected you. My comments to you have been respectful and even-tempered. I have not commented on many other posts you've made, I have not targeted you for some "weird" agenda .. I have even refrained form commenting on things you've said in other threads that were incorrect, or have come to be proven incorrect after-the fact. I've not the time or ambition to "make you look bad" .. I have absolutely never called for others to come to "my side", or to even get involved.
-You might want to start being a little more careful of what you accuse others of.

[HolyRustedMetal]

Originally posted by _KC76_:

You could have said everything you said, without this one line:
"There's no need to be particularly warm or dry for this to work."
This ^^ one line was your attempt to diminish or correct something someone else commented .. it does not matter who that was .. it matters because:
2. It is FACTUALLY incorrect. (as we've already established)

Ok, if that was your main issue:

particularly; adverb
to a higher degree than is usual or average.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/particularly

So no, you don't have to be warm to a higher degree than usual or average. And being wet doesn't matter to your health as long as you're not cold. That's FaCtUalLY correct.