"What does this do?" "What is this used for?" "What medicine will treat my disease?"
Have you ever asked those questions? If the answer is yes this guide is exactly for you! I have a good experience with treating sick and injured people both in-game and in real life and I have noticed that many players tend to get quite confused about what to do when they get sick or what they even got the sickness from so I will do my best to educate you all about DayZs decently made health system and maybe even compare them to real life…
Diseases
Common Cold
Probably the least severe of diseases. You may get this disease when your character is cold. The longer you are cold the higher the chances of you gettings this sickness are.
Symptoms – Coughing, sneezing
Prevention – Staying warm, Consumption of Multivitamin Pills.
Cure – Tetracycline Pills, Being well-fed, warm and otherwise healthy will help your body eventually fight off the disease naturally. Multivitamin pills will boost your immune systém and will help you recover faster.
NOTES – In real-life common cold is a VIRAL disease and so antibiotics would not cure the disease itself but they may be prescribed to fight off secondary bacterial infections associated with it.
Salmonellosis
The reason you should properly cook meat and wash your hands. This disease is caused by
Salmonella type bacteria which you may contract by eating raw meat and or by eating with bloody hands.
Symptoms – Increased loss of food and water. Vomiting when consuming water or food. This makes eating and drinking nearly impossible. This can lead to severe hunger and dehydration.
Prevention – Consuming only properly cooked meat and not eating with bloody hands. Consuming a Multivitamin Pill before eating raw meat or with bloody hands will boost your immune systém and so your body may be able to fight off the bacteria before it‘s able to cause the disease.
Cure – Charcoal Tablets
Cholera
One very dangerous disease which is rather common in most new players. This disease is caused by waterborne bacteria and you may get this disease by drinking unsanitized water from ponds, lakes, streams or rivers and by drinking from a water pump when your hands are bloody.
Symptoms – Increased loss of food and water. Vomiting when consuming water or food. This makes eating and drinking nearly impossible. This can lead to severe hunger and dehydration.
Prevention – Drinking only with clean hands and from water pumps or purifying water from ponds, rivers, lakes or streams by Chlorine Tablets. Consuming a Multivitamin Pill before drinking unsafe water or with bloody hands will boost your immune systém and so your body may be able to fight off the bacteria before it‘s able to cause the disease.
Cure – Tetracycline Pills, Being well-fed and otherwise healthy will help your body eventually fight off the disease naturally however this is obviously very hard to do when consuming too much food or water at a time causes you to vomit. Multivitamin pills will boost your immune systém and will help you recover faster.
NOTES – In real life Cholera is extremely rare in all of Europe so it shouldn't be a problem in eastern European countries like Chernarus.
Chemical Poisoning
Whether caused to others by bandits force-feeding questionable items to their victims or unknowledgeable player drinking from questionable sources on their own this is one very nasty disease caused by consumption of Disinfectant, Gasoline or Alcohol Tincture.
Symptoms – Severe vomiting and bloodloss that lasts until the poisoning is cured.
Prevention – Not consuming items that are not meant for consumption. Most people however don't cause this disease to themselves but get it as a result of torture by force feeding poisonous items.
Cure – Charcoal Tablets
Hemolytic Reaction
A hemolytic transfusion reaction is a serious complication that can occur after a blood transfusion of incorrect blood type. The reaction occurs when the red blood cells that were given during the transfusion are destroyed by the person's immune system. When red blood cells are destroyed, the process is called hemolysis.
BLOODY TYPE COMPATIBILITY
0- Can be donated to everyone
0+ Can be donated to everyone with + blood type
A- Can be donated to A+, A-, AB+ and AB-
A+ Can be donated to A+ and AB+
B- Can be donated to B+, B-, AB+ and AB-
B+ Can be donated to B+, and AB+
AB- Can be donated to AB- and AB+
AB+ Can be donated to AB+
Symptoms – Severe blood loss that will eventually kill the patient.
Prevention – Knowing blood types before giving anyone transfusion
Cure – NONE. If you receive incorrect blood type you will eventually die…
Brain Prion disease (Kuru)
Eternal punishment for all the people that lost all their humanity and resorted to hunting people for meat. Or anyone who mistakes human fat for animal one...This neurodegenerative disease is caused by prion a misshaped protein present in human Steak, human guts or human fat.
Symptoms - Tremors and random outbursts of laughter as the brain of the victim of this disease begins to break down the victim slowly loses control of his or her emotions and movement.
Prevention – Not eating human flesh. Avoid eating fat or guts if you don't know where they came from.
Cure – NONE. Once infected your nervous system will continue to break down until death.
NOTES – In real life while perhaps morally wrong eating human meat is relatively safe what causes this disease however is eating human brain the organ in which infectious prions would be most concentrated in. This disease while not deadly in the game is actually fatal in real life and has an extremely long incubation period of anywhere from 10 to over 50 years.