Can you get rid of gut worms?

[Kytespace]

two of my colony members got gut worms and to me it doesnt look like the worms will go away. im still somewhat new to rimworld so i dont know how to get rid of the worms. please tell me how.

[brian_va]

They go away eventually

[Morkonan]

As long as they get xx amount of treatments, it will go away eventually. You don't need anything but Herbal meds for that, so chance their settings to only use Herbal meds on the effected colonists, so your good meds aren't used for no reason.

[TotallyAverageGamer]

I don’t remember if the level of care matters either, I used to set my colonists to self tend when they had gut worms. Haven’t had them in a long time though

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Bill Kerman:

I don’t remember if the level of care matters either, I used to set my colonists to self tend when they had gut worms. Haven’t had them in a long time though

AFAIK, for those sorts of diseases, it doesn't matter, but only past Herbal meds. IOW - They have to get some sort of medicine, but it doesn't matter what grade it is as far as the required number of "Treatments" are reached.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Disease

So, basically, five treatments with Herbal Medicine will cure Gut Worms. As far as "Qualtiy" of medicine goes, I think that was confirmed to not really be an issue, only the number of treatments matter. Though, if someone treating the disease fails, that would probably not count as a Treatment.

(I'm still a "Noob" but I remember having questions about this, as well, and went looking for answers and the info above is what I found to be generally acknowledged as "true.")

[Glerk]

Don't waste any meds on it, after 5 treatments of any quality they will disappear.

[burningmime]

Supposedly onion juice is good for them. Sucks you got em, though. Was it undercooked meat?

[Kytespace]

the worms just went away after a while. thanks for the responses.

[Dosboy]

My current game has 3 colonists who have had gut worms for nearly a full year with herbal med tending...

[brian_va]

perhaps the game has been updated or changed in the year since the last post.

[Jaasrg]

Originally posted by duanethebathtub:

My current game has 3 colonists who have had gut worms for nearly a full year with herbal med tending...

The difference of then and now is that then it was just an X amount of tends while now tend quality needs to total up to Y to get rid of them.
So while having the worms for a year sounds kinda absurd, the little test I did, did say it might be possible.

[Jigain]

Specifically, every time you tend it there's a number that pops up, for instance, "56%". This needs to total up to 300% before gut worms is cured. So it's 3 treatments at 100%, but 15 treatments at 20%. Better medicine, better doctors, and better hospitals are all important factors to get rid of gut worms (and similar diseases) quickly.

[Dr@g0n]

check out blueberries, they have a drug bluferium, it is game breaking since its cheap and rather easy to produce on good farming map but use enough of them and you can cure just about anything

[Dosboy]

I am down to one colonist that still has gut worms. He got them last spring and it's spring again. His tending has been very good (by a 12+ doc) with herbal meds. I even gave him a couple shots of antibiotics to no avail. From past games, I know they go away, but this is crazy how long this one is hanging.

@Jigain - how did you come up with the 300% total on healing?

[Jigain]

Memory. But if you want a source, the Rimworld wiki is a decent one - can't guarantee that's where I saw it first, but it says the same.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Gut_worms

Also, if you're talking about penoxycyline, those aren't antibiotics. Antibiotics implies it's a reactive treatment, but penoxycyline is a preventative one. Take it, and your pawn cannot get a new infection of the prevented type. But if they already have one, even if it's in its initial hidden stage, penoxycyline will do naught.

[Dosboy]

@Jigain - I have a mod that allows you to create many meds including anti-biotics.. helps heal faster... but not gut worms