First of all, how did your pet get sick anyway? There are 4 main ways that this could have happened. The first way is via random events. Anything a Neopian tries to do can not prevent  this miserable random event. Though rare just like all the others, this one has an awful effect. The random event looks something like this:

 

The second way that a Neopet can contract an illness is due to misfortune from a spinning wheel. Both the Wheel of Excitement and the Wheel of  Misfortune may give your pet a disease if the right slot is landed upon (the Skull and Crossbones and Pox, respectively). The illness that the wheels give out however, gets rotated around and is random, and therefore isn’t the same at any particular time of the day or year.

 
The third way that a Neopet can contract an illness is from eating a poisoned food. The following foods will give your pet a disease:

 
There are also some games that can cause illnesses.

Game	Disease
Qasalan Expellibox	Reptilliortus
Wheel of Excitement	Rotates Peridocially
Wheel of Misfortune	Random

The last thing that can contribute to a Neopet’s failing health are Battledome items. Poison Snowballs, Poison Snowflakes, Poison Darts, Super Poison Dart, Mysterious Hemlock Darts, and Vile Swamp Water are examples of items that, if used against your Neopet in the Battledome, can cause them to contract a disease.

 
Some Neopets can also contract diseases and be healed when eating a particular item.  For example, a Quiggle cannot eat anything with the word cream in it, and a Pteri who eats something containing the word worm will be healed and become bloated.

 
Booster shots, medicine and cures can be purchased either at the Pharmacy or in user shops. To diagnose what ailment your pet has and what cure is needed, you can visit the Neopian Hospital or check our list here. Alternatively, you may want to try to purchase a Lost Desert Cure. Be warned though, these DO NOT ALWAYS WORK.

DISEASE	CURE IMAGE	CURE NAME	DISEASE	CURE IMAGE	CURE NAME
Achy Head		Magic Goop	Bloaty Belly		Flat-u-less Tablets
Bloaty Feet		Magic Smelly Socks Seafood Sweet	Blurred Vision		Extra Thick Goggles
Bubbles		Bubbles Herbal Drink	Chickaroo		Herbal Scrambled Eggs
Cricky Neck		Neck Brace	D'Achoo		Neopkins
Doldrums		Mushroom Ointment	Floppy Tongue		Tongue Shrinker
Fuzzitus		Fluff Be Gone	Fuzzy Fungus		Honey Blossom Extract
Grumbles		Grumble Be Gone Tablets	Hoochie Coochies		Hoochie Coochie Tablets
Itchy Scratchies		Itchy Scratchy Cream	Jitters		Potion of Containmet
Kikoughela		Kikoughela Syrup	Lumps		Medicinal Mud Bath
Neezles		Neezles Jab	Neggitus		Neggitus Injection
NeoBlues		Tasty Pie	Neo Flu		Neoflu Jelly Pills
Neogitus		Medicinal Toothbrush	NeoMites		NeoMites Injection
NeoMonia		Medicinal Soap	NeoPhobia		Step Out Shoes
NeoPox		NeoPox Pizza	NeoWarts		Neowart Fungus
Reptillioritus		Cactopus Cream	Shaky Flakys		Shaky Flaky Cream
Shock-A-Lots		Ultra Rubber Gloves	Sneezles		Magic Cookie
Ugga-Ugga		Sporkle Syrup	Spyder Bite		Spyder Juice Elixir
Watery Eyes		Onion Balm	Pollenitus		Crater Fruit Elixir

 

A cheaper solution to buying the cures for a disease is to try to be healed by the Water Faerie at the Healing Springs. The Water Faerie can heal your pets every half hour, but it may take some time for her to heal yours of their disease, so just keep trying!  But be warned: a pet that remains sick for a long period of time runs the risk of a random event which will turn him blue. Hopefully your pet won’t be sick for very long.

Credit:
This guide was written exclusively for NeoLodge.Com by Mekiko.
This guide was edited by Georgie.

02/2006