randomly getting the sick icon?

[Scrapper Scrap Scraps]

can anyone please help, i keep getting the random sick icon appear for no logical reason.

i treat it with antibiotics, it disappears for half hour then comes back...
i've checked my clothing and its all highly insulated, i very rarely get cold warnings...

it's been a while since i played since the updates, but do items in your inventory have disease?

(i hope no one is in my radius, i'm sure there isnt) but do people leave flu in the areas on items even if they log off?

I saw an article online that says gloves , hats e.t.c. need treatment after being ill. but i can't seem to disinfect anything, I've put it in my hands then tried dragging clothing to it but nothing happens?

thanks in advance if anyone can help

[Topher]

If this with the same game characters or with multiply spawns? If it is the same then that character may just be bugged.

You may of course be making yourself ill by doing many different things. Are you eating or drinking with bloody hands. You could be drinking from an infected bottle that you have never disinfected that you collected from a diseased player.

There is a great guide by Asmodian infographic on the Wobo Tools website that explains what symptoms are due to which illness and how to treat them. Since that is by far the best source I will not try to explain them here as the infographic speaks for itself and is worth a lot more than 1000 words here.

[MolitovMichelle]

The sickness in this game has always been broken sadly. There are some reasons why you're likely to get sick but once you got it its difficult to get rid and is usually death. Sometimes you can cure sickness but other times it will just not accept any cure and you die more often than not.

As a DayZ vet the sickness ruins the game for me and it the reason I keep stopping. I come back every few years to see what has changed.

Find a modded server where there actually is increased medical and not just says it does. Or a modded server that allows some sort of banking system.

[mynicknametaken]

The sickness doesnt actually kill you. It doesnt damage your health or prevent your character from living in any other ways, except for the recently added wound infection (which has very clear and defined ways of treatment that work well and arent bugged) and food poisoning that is survivable but if you catch it as a freshspawn its a death sentence in most cases. But it is also easy to not catch - just dont eat rotten fruit, dont eat burned stuff and dont drink gasoline and alcohol tincture. I mean i know, alcohol tincture is irresistable, i give up to my urges and drink it to the bottom myself quite often, and i wish it didnt give you a poisoning and had some fun effects that would be half positive half negative, kind of like real life alcohol. But thats just me, if you dont drink it you WILL be fine.

[Norseman]

lots of new mechanics in the game now. I suspect you have used non disinfected rags to heal up from cuts? use alcohol tincture or Iodine. And pick up Bandages and use them ----as much as possible, they are disinfected already.

Also dry your clothes as often you can from rain, just drop them from hands in front of a fireplace or a bonfire.
Hope this helps.

[Scrapper Scrap Scraps]

thank you all of your comments. i thnk it was bugged somehow, i tried getting attacked by zombie intentionally... i applied iodine, then bandaged up... it seemed to have gone, sadly that caused a bit of a army horde of zombies to relentlessly scream behind the door, and someone spotted me, 10 mins or so later i go shot and died.. but that seems to have fixed it anyway haha.

[Stumpy]

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