Medical Disease

Medical Guide: Common Cold in DayZ

The Common Cold is the most frequent illness in DayZ, especially in rainy maps or cold seasons. While not instantly fatal, its constant sneezing and coughing will give away your position to both infected and hostile players, while slowly consuming your energy.

To prevent catching a cold, survival experts recommend keeping your core body temperature high, wearing warm clothes in good condition, drying yourself next to a fire if wet, and keeping your immune system boosted by maintaining high nutritional levels.

If you have caught a cold, the ideal treatment is to take Multivitamin Pills to boost your immune system, or Tetracycline to fight the infection directly. Make sure to wear a mask to avoid transmitting the virus to your group members.

Quick Medical Summary

Common Cold is contracted by Being wet or cold for a long time, Low immune system, Direct transmission from another sick survivor. Its primary symptoms include Coughing, Recurrent sneezing, Fever / Sweating, Frequent shivering, and it is cured using Multivitamin Pills..

Causes

  • Being wet or cold for a long time
  • Low immune system
  • Direct transmission from another sick survivor

Symptoms

  • Coughing
  • Recurrent sneezing
  • Fever / Sweating
  • Frequent shivering

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Cholera

Cause: Drinking from ponds, rivers or stagnant water

Symptom: Fever/Sweating (high temperature)

Tetracycline Pills.

Salmonella

Cause: Eating or drinking with bloody hands

Symptom: Energy and water loss due to vomiting

Charcoal Tablets.

Wound Infection

Cause: Allowing bleeding wounds to heal naturally without bandaging

Symptom: Mild groans of pain

Disinfectant (Iodine Tincture, Alcohol, or Disinfectant Spray) in Stage 1, Tetracycline in Stage 2.

Gas Poisoning (POX)

Cause: Being inside a toxic gas zone (dynamic or static) without full NBC protection

Symptom: Vomiting blood

PO-X Antidote Injector or Clean Blood Bag Transfusion.

Hypothermia

Cause: Prolonged exposure to extreme cold temperatures

Symptom: Frequent severe shivering

Campfire, dry and high-insulation clothing, consuming hot food/drinks.

Kuru

Cause: Consuming human meat, fat, or viscera (whether raw, cooked, or rotten)

Symptom: Uncontrollable hysterical laughter and crying

The only cure is death.

Fracture

Cause: Fall damage from high altitudes

Symptom: Severe shock damage when trying to jog/run

Wooden Splint or professional Splint, then rest.

Food Poisoning

Cause: Eating large amounts of unknown canned food

Symptom: Constant vomiting

Charcoal Tablets.

Hemolytic Reaction

Cause: Receiving an incompatible blood type during a blood transfusion

Symptom: Instant unconsciousness upon blood transfusion

Saline Bag or IV Blood Bag of compatible type, and keeping health stats high.

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