Sick from Zombie?

[WolfgangErikson 127]

I have been playing for quite a long time, and have never once gotten the sick status.

 

I got it today. It appeared almost simultaneously with the occurrence of the "bleeding" status from a zombie attack. 

 

I haven't eaten any rotten food or anything. I have consistantly had the healthy/healing status, and am not stuffed or anything like that. The only thing I have done abnormal this round is that I found and ate two bites of some antibiotics and vitamins. That was around 20 minutes before the sick status appeared, so I am skeptical that it is the cause. I did drink from a pond around 5 minutes before that, but I have been doing that since I started playing DayZ.

 

Has anybody else had or heard of the sick status appearing in such a strange manor? Know of any ways to rid myself of whatever ailment I have?

 

1st person server if anybody is wondering.

[scriptfactory 620]

I got sick from using a sewing kit to cure my bleeding status.

[krazypenguin 174]

Yeah, it's the sewing kit. This is taken from here: ***************Removed**************

"DayZ has come a long way in the last year, to the point where the developers have decided to re-introduce the sickness feature as of the last Stable patch 0.50, although it is now a little different. While zombies will no longer inflict the Sickness on a character, you can now become sick from using a sewing kit (regular sewing kit or regular sewing kit) to heal your wounds.

Sewing up your wounds has around a 17.5% chance of making you sick (wound infection). Sickness has 4 stages, the first being quite minor, the next two stages are more severe and the final stage is a recovery stage. Your character will progress through all 4 stages over time and eventually you will become healed, if you manage to survive. The four stages are as follows:

Stage 1 – My wounds are itchy / I have itchy wounds

This stage of Sickness will last up to 10 minutes, and you will lose a very modest 0.05 water per second. If you do not cure your sickness while in this stage, you will progress to Stage 2.

Stage 2 – My wounds are infected / I have infected wounds

This stage of sickness will last up to 20 minutes, and you will lose 3 water per second, 0.3% blood per second and 0.1% health per second. If you do not cure your sickness while in this stage, you will progress to Stage 3.

Stage 3 – My wounds are seriously infected / I have seriously infected wounds

This stage of sickness will last up to 40 minutes, and while infected you will lose 5 water per second, 0.1% blood per second and 0.3% health per second. If you do not cure your sickness while in this stage, you will progress to Stage 4.

Stage 4 (Recovery Stage) – My wounds hurt less / My wounds look cleaner

This stage of sickness will last up to 30 minutes, and while infected you will lose 3 water per second. Once this stage passes, your Sickness will be cured.

You can cure Sickness simply by taking some antibiotics or cleaning your wounds with an alcohol tincture. Taking antibiotics or cleaning your wounds with an alcohol tincture during any stage of Sickness will skip you straight to Stage 4, and once Stage 4 passes you will be completely healed. It’s important to keep yourself topped up with plenty of food and drink during Sickness in order to survive – if you find yourself with little or no food and drink during Sickness, and you don’t have any antibiotics or alcohol, you probably won’t make it to the recovery stage and you will die. Finding a pond or well can be a life saver during sickness as you can stay nearby, and keep your character fully quenched while you loot nearby houses for food and / or medical supplies and the all-important, antibiotics / alcohol."


I have twice survived sickness caused by using sewing kits to stop bleeding, once by going through all 4 stages, burning up quite a bit of food in the process (camped by a well to keep hydrated) and simply sweating it out - literally. The other time I survived by using alcohol tincture to skip straight to stage 4 (though I still needed food and water to stay alive). Note that you apply the alcohol tincture to your wounds - do NOT drink it!

Edit - some excellent YouTube videos from WOBO:

Surviving Sickness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD_tmFNw47k

Guide to Wound Infection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMlvphn01o

Edited January 8, 2015 by Boneboys

[boneboys 7988]

Yeah, it's the sewing kit. This is taken from here: ***************Removed**************

Nice post but I edited, PM if you wish to learn more.

[WolfgangErikson 127]

Thanks for the replies. I had completely forgotten about infection from attempting to heal wounds. I had the thought right before bed that I might have used damaged rags. You are right though, now that I think about it, I had used a sewing kit: I had no idea those had a chance of causing infection.

 

Thanks again.

 

PS: For some reason my character is gone, so none of this matters now other than for future knowledge. I'm pretty sure I was on an empty server. I'm not sure why it got wiped. I logged off shortly after getting sick to prevent my degradation before I could get a solution. I logged in about 5 minutes later to a new character. It didn't even give me the "You are dead" screen. Anyway, It probably wasn't a problem with the sickness that caused it,  but I though I would share.