This gives pawns some leeway, in case colonists don't consume the pills promptly. While the in-game description says to 'Take every five days', the effect actually lasts just over than a half-day longer. If you can afford the neutroamine cost (and won't be using it for medicine, wake-up, or go-juice), then this drug is a net positive. It can also be used on sicky pawns for obvious reasons. This prevents your doctors from getting sick when a disease outbreak occurs. If you don't want to use penoxycyline on every colonist, you can reserve it for your doctors. Penoxycyline can reduce the time spend resting in bed, especially in tropical biomes where disease is prevalent and sleeping sickness is possible.

For an otherwise healthy colonist: a decent doctor, in a clean hospital, using herbal medicine or medicine is usually enough to treat the disease (so long as the colonist rests for the duration). However, it can cause minor overdoses when taken along with hard drugs.ĭiseases usually aren't a fatal problem by the time you can get a good supply of neutroamine and have the Penoxycyline production research. This severity is not enough to cause any health effect on its own. Penoxycyline can contribute to overdoses, increasing severity by 0.08-0.14 per dose consumed. Penoxycyline is not addictive and has no direct side effects. Penoxycyline does nothing to treat pre-existing diseases. When the Disease event occurs, pawns that were protected from getting the disease by penoxycyline will be specifically noted as such. Sometimes my poeple get plague, I put them to the bed and immediatly treat them with medicine. Penoxycyline completely prevents users from catching any of the following diseases while its 'high' is active:ĭespite the wording of the description, it does nothing to prevent or treat infections, or any other diseases or ailments besides the three above. It can also be bought from orbital, Outlander, or Empire traders, as well as Outlander and Empire faction bases. Note that Neutroamine can only be obtained from traders or found in cargo pods. Its synthesis speed is dependent on the Intellectual skill, and crafting experience is attributed to Intellectual. Each dose require 2 Neutroamines and 600 ticks ( 10 secs) of work. I think that just helps prevent infections.Penoxycyline can be crafted at a Drug lab once the Penoxycyline production research project has been completed. Putting a sterile floor in the hospital and keeping it clean might help, but I'm not sure. They will still catch them but start with 70% immunity and unless their kidneys are wrecked even herbals will probably cure them. The other option is to give them a dose of penoxycyline every 5 days, this immunizes them against diseases except the Flu I think. They will usually recover in this way.IF THEY HAVE HEALTHY KIDNEYS. This is normally not necessary but it helps. Hover the pointer over the plague on the health tab to see when the next treatment is due. You can right click them with the doctor to do this. Their immunity will slowly go up as long as they are treated regularly. This will work if you make sure they stay in bed (do this by right clicking the bed and make it a priority, they won't leave to do anything even fight fires.) Hospital bed + vitals monitor and real medicine. To treat the plague you have a few options. Herbal medicines are inadequate except for basic wound treatment (bruises, cuts, breaks and burns.)

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