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Author Topic: How do I get rid of infections?  (Read 4767 times)

rex mortis

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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #30 on: October 10, 2010, 04:07:37 am »

Which is very accurate, historically speaking.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2010, 08:21:55 am »

nice clean cavern water
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At one point, I had a FB that was somehow oozing all the time. It liked to swim around in the water, and believe me, that wasn't "nice and clean" anymore very very quickly.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2010, 04:49:01 pm »

Alcohol can kill bacteria or other nasty things, but only if the concentration is high enough. The amount of alcohol required to do this is lethal if your blood was made up of the same percentage of alcohol. This is why way back in the medieval era no one drank water from a well. Doing so would kill you. Instead everyone drank booze, with drinking from a well as absolute last resort.

The alcohol in the booze would kill the microorganisms, making the liquid safe to drink.
...These are DWARVES. They drink alcohol without becoming dehydated. I don't think a little booze blood would hurt them.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #33 on: October 31, 2010, 04:58:57 pm »

My hospital is a death senntance, not because of disease, but because of lack of water.

All the ponds evaporate before I can get water into a cistern.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #34 on: October 31, 2010, 05:08:34 pm »

Ok then: Another well-researched and thoroughly understood topic.
Like a bunch of monkeys poking at it with a stick.

Short answer: Make soap and put in hospital by adding storage containers to the hospital. Solution is only successful some of the time.

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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #35 on: October 31, 2010, 05:28:37 pm »

So far, I've got a 100% survival rate in my hospital; the key thing seems to be making sure sutures/bandages are applied ASAP and there's soap on hand.  Infections don't seem to matter after that.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #36 on: October 31, 2010, 05:59:48 pm »

Ok then: Another well-researched and thoroughly understood topic.
So show us the results of your spading on this obscure mechanic probably subject to change by next version.

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Drakeero

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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #37 on: October 31, 2010, 07:18:56 pm »

Well, for some reason now everyone who goes into the hospital with a broken bone gets an infection and dies because people refuse to move gypsum plaster to the hospital no matter what I try to do.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #38 on: October 31, 2010, 07:23:26 pm »

Well, for some reason now everyone who goes into the hospital with a broken bone gets an infection and dies because people refuse to move gypsum plaster to the hospital no matter what I try to do.
You're lucky, I have a random idiot at the well who keeps "applying plaster"... to patients who are lying in the hospital, next room. He keeps doing whatever he's doing without moving an inch, and he's thirsty. Deconstructing the well won't do anything. I should just try digging a channel under him before he dies of thirst in front of the well. And then kill him for being an insufferable moron.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #39 on: October 31, 2010, 07:23:58 pm »

That's tricky, but hospital stockpiling zones don't automatically bring gypsum powder to them. And even if they did, they'd have every allocated storage overloaded with cloth and thread of every quality before it even arrived (above and beyond the inventory limits given to them, the thieving bastards!) You have to set up the stockpile within the zone manually for bags (no sandbags!) with material gypsum powder. When it's there, they'll use it.

But aside; that won't do anything for infections.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #40 on: November 01, 2010, 11:31:18 am »

That's tricky, but hospital stockpiling zones don't automatically bring gypsum powder to them. And even if they did, they'd have every allocated storage overloaded with cloth and thread of every quality before it even arrived (above and beyond the inventory limits given to them, the thieving bastards!) You have to set up the stockpile within the zone manually for bags (no sandbags!) with material gypsum powder. When it's there, they'll use it.

But aside; that won't do anything for infections.

Thanks, I'll get some powder moved right away.  And yeah I know it doesn't do anything for infections themselves but maybe if the guy gets his leg set instead of just laying there with a compound fracture for 6 months he won't get an infection anyway.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #41 on: November 01, 2010, 12:08:57 pm »

So far, I've got a 100% survival rate in my hospital; the key thing seems to be making sure sutures/bandages are applied ASAP and there's soap on hand.  Infections don't seem to matter after that.

How do you make it "ASAP" though? My medical dwarves always take a while to get to work, even with all other labors turned off. They sit around while the guy is trying not to bleed to death, then they eventually go over and do one procedure. Then sit around with "no job" some more and do another, and so on and so forth.

Don't get me wrong, eventually, they do everything. It just takes a pretty long time, even though I have 4 dwarves (Chief med dwarf, one surgeon, one suturer, one wound dress/bone doc). Last time I had a big siege with 4-5 guys getting injured and the last 2 ended up getting infections.
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Re: How do I get rid of infections?
« Reply #42 on: November 01, 2010, 01:55:12 pm »

So far, I've got a 100% survival rate in my hospital; the key thing seems to be making sure sutures/bandages are applied ASAP and there's soap on hand.  Infections don't seem to matter after that.

How do you make it "ASAP" though? My medical dwarves always take a while to get to work, even with all other labors turned off. They sit around while the guy is trying not to bleed to death, then they eventually go over and do one procedure. Then sit around with "no job" some more and do another, and so on and so forth.

Don't get me wrong, eventually, they do everything. It just takes a pretty long time, even though I have 4 dwarves (Chief med dwarf, one surgeon, one suturer, one wound dress/bone doc). Last time I had a big siege with 4-5 guys getting injured and the last 2 ended up getting infections.

Sounds like RL to me.
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