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DayZ: Heal Wound Infection and Prevent Blood Infection

Published: Jul. 13, 2021
Updated: Apr. 18, 2024

German English

The wound infection in DayZ is an early stage of blood poisoning that affects your character if you treat your wound with non-disinfected bandages or needles. Both poisonings are part of a diversity of sicknesses in DayZ, and in this guide, we show you everything you need to know about wound infection in DayZ.

Overview of Wound Infection:

  • You get blood poisoning from uncleanly treated cuts and wounds.
  • Symptoms include your character moaning, blurred vision, or rapid depletion of the fluid bar.
  • You can only prevent wound infection with sterile bandages or cauterized needles.
  • There are two stages of blood poisoning, the first easily curable, the second almost always fatal.

Causes and Progression of Wound Infection in DayZ

  • Walking barefoot
  • Cuts from sliding off ladders
  • Bleeding from fall damage
  • Gunshot wounds
  • Any other type of cut injury
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Just walking without shoes can cause you to get open sores on your feet.

Stage 1 of Wound Infection

  • Your character moans in pain.
  • A pulsating blur covers your screen.
  • Stamina regeneration is 50% slower.
  • This stage lasts about 20 minutes.

Stage 2 of Wound Infection

  • Louder moaning from your character
  • Blur becomes even stronger
  • Fever sets in
  • Severe trembling of the hands
  • Water (hydration) depletes 10 times faster
  • 0.75 health loss every 13 seconds (10 health in 4 minutes)
  • 40 minutes until guaranteed death

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Treating Wound Infection

Treating Stage 1 Wound Infection: As long as you're in the first stage, you can easily heal your blood poisoning. Rub your wound with an iodine or herbal tincture. Within a minute, the status of the wound infection should subside and your DayZ adventure can continue. In Stage 2, however, you can forget about both remedies.

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Even with simple-to-find alcohol, you can heal your infection in DayZ.

Treating Stage 2 Wound Infection: To treat a Stage 2 infection, you need Tetracycline tablets. The healing takes a total of about 15 - 20 minutes, depending on the state of your current health. In our tests, we had to take about 4 tablets to completely heal the wound infection. But not all at once! Always wait until the effect of a tablet wears off after about 4 minutes.

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Tetracycline tablets can be found in any clinic.

Preventing Wound Infection

To avoid getting into a tricky situation in the first place, you should keep the following in mind. Bandages, cloth scraps, and the sewing kit are your best option for treating a wound. However, they should be sterile, which you can achieve with disinfectant. Alcohol tinctures also disinfect your remedies. But again, there's a catch. A change in condition from, say, pristine to worn lifts the sterile effect.

Useful Information about Wound Infection in DayZ

  • Cut wounds heal on their own after 5 minutes. This guarantees an infection, whether you've cleaned the wound or not.
  • Sterile items do not lose their status even when they get wet.
  • You cannot achieve sterility through heat.
  • There is no additional shock damage just because you have an infection.
Every tip mentioned in this guide has been practically tested by our team to ensure you receive reliable and accurate information.
The interest in digging deep into the gaming industry stems from the DayZ Mod for Arma 2 in 2012. Kevin started working in the gaming industry in 2016. First as a trainee at Survivethis, the biggest German Survival-Games-Site at that time. Only half a year later, he got accepted at Gamestar and later MeinMMO. Now, on Guided.news he implements all his Knowledge to deliver comprehensive news, guides, interviews and more unique topics.
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