DayZ Diseases (and how to deal with them)

Be it after drinking pond water in your third vanilla run as a freshie with 0 experiences, a cannibal who sliced some mf up and defiled his corpse in a hardcore server or as a geared up lad who decided it was a great idea to used non-disinfected rags to patch up wounds. This guide will help any sperg who needs to understand medicine quickly in DayZ.

The Basic Sicknesses

This section will consist of the 2 pretty basic and most non-lethal sicknesses in DayZ. They're fairly common and decently easy to contract, but serve only as a small annoyance to the player.

The Common Cold

Probably the most basic sickness out of every single one in the game. You get this from being too cold and running around in the rain or simply cold weather. Or some mongrel coughing in your mouth or violently making out with you while you are sick.

Symptoms

Coughing
Sneezing

Treatment

Tetracycline Pills
Multivitamin pills (boost your immune system to 100%)
Natural immune system, though it will vary from how low your food and hunger are.
Wear some warm clothes or just sit by a fire.


Influenza

Same thing as the cold except it has an extra symptoms. You can get this from other survivors sneezing down your throat, drinking or eating the same stuff from the infected person or just being exposed to the cold for too long.

Symptoms

Coughing
Sneezing
Fever (raise in body temperature and some blurry vision)

Treatment

Tetracycline Pills
Multivitamin Pulls
Natural immune system
Staying warm

The Moderate Diseases

Next step is the more moderate diseases in DayZ. These sicknesses are more potent to your immune system and have more severe effects if not treated, so its recommended that you treat these unless you want a higher chance of death or a real annoyance.


Cholera

This is the disease that you get when drinking contaminated or unclean water. Basically do NOT under any circumstances drink water from a bottle that you found on the ground randomly or on a survivor, as there is a 50/50 chance of you contracting cholera from this. Any water that you find in a house, empty it all out and then refill the bottle with clean water.

Symptoms

Vomiting (this will drain your hydration and food levels a lot, so avoid drinking and eating in large amounts)
Increased hydration drain (your hydration will drain quicker with movement, so try limit your movement if possible)
Slower movements (after your hydration bar hits the yellow mark, you will have reduced run speed and audible groaning)

Treatment

Tetracycline Pills
Multivitamin tablets
Natural immune system (this takes longer to work, as the disease fights the immune system harder)
Consume food and water in very small amounts to offset the sickness' effects.

If you have chlorine tables, you can purify possibly contaminated water with these. You can fill your bottle with pond water and drink it as much as you want, just be sure to use chlorine tablets with that water first.


Salmonella

Basically cholera but more potent and has more ways to be infected from it. The way you contract salmonella is from eating raw meat and fat, drinking/eating with unclean hands and eating rotten food. If you have a high enough immune system (above 90% on food and water), you can drink and eat as much raw meat and pond water you want.

Symptoms

Vomiting (vomiting with salmonella is much more common than cholera and you'll know if you have it cause you ate raw meat)

Treatment

Charcoal tablets
Multivitamin pills
Natural immune systems

Don't eat raw meat.


Chemical Poisoning

This is what happens when you drink or are force-fed alcohol tincture, disinfectant spray, iodine tincture or gasoline. Avoid drinking any of the above or being force fed the above (force feed people it though, its funny). Also don't eat burnt food.

Symptoms

Vomiting
Energy loss
Water loss
Fatigue
Bleeding

Treatment

Charcoal tablets
Multivitamin Pills
Waiting for the poisoning to run its course

The Severe Diseases

This is where the disease get very serious and will consist of 3 different types. These are the ones that have the largest consequences if left untreated or prevented and can result in the players death if not taken action quickly.


Brain prion disease/Kuru

Congrats dumbass, you're now a cannibal. Eating human steak, fat, guts or drinking/eating food or water with unclean hands after skinning a survivor. (WEAR GLOVES OR CLEAN YOUR HANDS, or just don't eat people you vegetable).

Symptoms

Tremors (shaking hands when aiming down sights)
Uncontrollable bursts of laughter


Treatment

A bullet to the head
Nothing else

Don't eat people you sperg


Wound Infection

This is what happens when you patch yourself up from bleed with non-disinfected rags, bandages or sewing kits. Wound infection can also occur if you let the wound heal naturally and allow it to blood clot. Use disinfected rags, bandages and sewing kits to make sure you're all good. You'll know its a wound infection when the infection logo looks mad.

Symptoms

During stage 1 of the infection, your character will make a persistent sound of pain, the screen will blur and your stamina will regenerate 50% slower. Stage 1 lasts for about 20 minutes. Your survivor will groan and make audible sounds of pain when infected.

During stage 2 of the infection you will make noticeably louder sounds of pain, the screen will blur more often and your character will have a fever. In addition to Stage 1's stamina regeneration being 50% slower, your hands will begin to shake, and you will dehydrate ten times faster all while losing 0.75 health every 13 seconds.

This means that if you have full health you will die within 40 minutes of reaching Stage 2. The infection lasts forever unless cured by other means.

Treatment

During stage 1, use any disinfectant to kill the infection. Or you can use tetracycline pills.
During stage 2, you cannot use disinfectant. Your only way of curing the infection is by consuming tetracycline pills.


Gas Poisoning

One of the more serious diseases in the game, if not the worst besides brain prion disease. This will occur for going into the gas zones without a gas mask or NBC gear (wearing a gas mask will negate effects besides bleeding, its recommended you wear all protection or just avoid the gas).


Symptoms

Stage 1: On Zone Entry- Any amount of exposure will result in any blood collected from you will become tainted. Bleeding will occur shortly

Stage 2: 25 seconds after entry- Coughing every 20 - 40 seconds, Causing 50 Blood damage
Vomiting every 3 - 5 minutes, Causing 250 Blood Damage.

Stage 3: 1 minute, 20 seconds- Knocked Unconscious and 3 Health damage per second until dead.

Treatment

If you are still on stage 1-2 of the gas poisoning, using the PO-X antidote will immediately cure you of gas poisoning.
Using the PO-X on Stage 3 will wake you up from unconsciousness and set it back to stage 2.

Using a non-tainted blood bag-IV outside of the gas zone will cure the survivor of gas sickness, but it will not cure the survivor if given a tainted bag. Tainted blood bags have no ill effects and simply give back blood.

Using tetracycline pills if you are still on stage 1 can help cure gas poisoning.


Acute High Velocity Lead poisoning

Either on the beach, in a military camp or in a city; nothing is stopping your fantastic RNG of attaining this sickness. You just pray to god the person who is the cause, is a ♥♥♥♥ shot, hits something not vital or is using a low cartridge weapon.


Symptoms

Death
Bleeding
Health Damage
Fractures


Treatment

High food and water for health regeneration
Being smart and cautious of your surroundings
Kill the other mf first

Exotic Sickness

A few exotic illnesses, ones that are different from the basic disease of DayZ.

Hemolytic Reaction

This occurs when you give or receive blood that is not compatible with your blood type. Hemolytic results aren't overly serious unless you or your mate are low on blood, which can result in a lot of blood loss.

Symptoms

Blood damage
Bleeding/blood loss

Treatment

There is no way to treat this disease besides being well hydrated and having a lot of bandages, the disease must run its course for it to be cured.


Fractures

Fractures or broken limbs happen when a player receives enough shock damage from projectiles, blunt damage, high falls or repetitive falls from heights. It results in the player possibly being knocked unconscious or receiving a lot of shock damage.

Symptoms

Constant audible groans of pain
Slowed movement speed and limping
Unconscious state from pain

Treatment

Crafting a splint with 2 short sticks, 6 rags or one full bandage. This allows the fracture to heal in 10-15 minutes.
Letting it heal naturally, but this takes much longer.
Using codeine pills and morphine pens can allow the player to run at their regular run speed.

[SamSalaBim]

You can also use ductape for a splint

[OleOneEye]

will this be updated with the new update?

[logan12356]

good to know thanks

[sullivan]

ohhhh very helpful thanks a lot (:

[HMAC]

Wish my game worked ): sadge

[pineapple pizza]

I will eat people and there's nothing you can do to stop my spree

[Jingles]

farts

[Whacattack]

fingers an toes staple diet of the survivour

[bigboygiga]

beans

[hazmatfirehero]

looked it up because I ate wolf guts and was scared. luckily it was salmonella and not brain rot