Editing Epidemics guide (section)

== Example of curing a stage 2 patient ==


[[File:Aralus first image.png|1100px]]

Aralus at start of stage 2.


[[File:Aralus second image.png|1100px]]

Aralus roughly 10min after medication.


Aralus has minor disease (discoloration, fever, cough).

To see discoloration, just look at the patient (i need to comfirm this). Coughing you can see as an emote. "Touch aralus" to see if he has fever. Pale face is probably just a common thing when you get sick, and not related to discolouring.


In the first image I first diagnose him, and see his infection level. It is clear its totally safe to give him a Potion of Theriac of strength 10, and whatever painkillers and antifever I got on me (max strength of 10, ofc).
The second image is taken maybe 10 minutes after medication, you can see the infection level already going down. The potion that I gave him, is not strong enough to completely cure him to stage 0, so he will need more medication LATER.

Please note, that he still has 10 drops of the potion in his bloodstream, even if I cant see it in my diagnosis (non-AP)! To wait until ALL the potion has gone from his bloodstream, I need to wait roughly 2.5 hours. I can, however, wait for 1 hour, and then give him a potion of theriac with the strength of 4.

This is unlikely to overdose him (his combined total potion of theriac-level in bloodstream would be back to 10 at this point, from 6) (medication loses 1 drop per 15min, roughly, from bloodstream), and even if an overdose occurs, it will be minor and last only 15min or so most likely. I will need to microdose him like this until he is cured (he can naturally do it himself, if he has alchemists and the diagnosis skill).

Note that there might be some randomness on how quickly medicine starts to work!

'''Update'''

We finally managed to cure Aralus. We tried too many things to be sure, but I assume that the last try did the trick. Problem was that his disease was too far gone, and giving him max dose of theriac was not enough to bring it down to safe numbers, and while we waited the medicine to run its course (to avoid overdosing), his infection levels slowly creeped up again. 

This is what we tried:

 Giving max dose of one cure. Not efficient enough. 
 Micro-dosing also too slow (but a major issue here was difference in our timezones, and because of this accurate dosing became more or less impossible).
 Giving max doses of 3 cures for minor disease (theriac, elixir of truth, elixir of life). 


The last one appears to have cured him. 

Also note that this level of overdosing (13 drops over the safe limit) will last almost 3.5 hours, if it works like I think it does (15min/drop).
[[File:Aralus cured.png|1100px]]

Aralus finally cured after a long period of testing cures.