Diseases & Cures

How do pets become ill?
Sometimes your pet can get ill while browsing on neopets. There are two different random events that can cause your pet to become ill. One of them is just a regular one where your pet comes down with an illness, at the other random event, the evil Hubrid Nox makes all your pets ill at once just by staring at you! Your pet can also become ill from landing on the skull on the Wheel of Excitement or on Pox at the Wheel of Misfortune, the skull on the Qasalan Expellibox will also make your pet ill.

Certain foods can also make your pet ill if you feed them to your pets.

		Ferocious Negg: if you feed your pet a Ferocious Negg, it will come down with a random disease, but your pet will also gain 2 to 4 strength points.
		Malice Potion: if use a Malice Potion on your pet, it can come down with Blurred Vision, but it could also heal your pet a few hitpoints or do nothing.
		Poisonous Jelly: if you feed one or two halves of Poisonous Jelly to your pet, your pet will come down with NeoMonia.
		Rotten Omelette: if you feed your pet a Rotten Omelette your pet will come down with Ugga-Ugga.
		Poisonous Lollypop: if you feed your pet a Poisonous Lollypop your pet may come down with Floppy Tongue.
		Glowing Jelly: if you feed your pet a Glowing Jelly your pet may come down with Blurred Vision.
		Wicked Negg: if you feed your pet a Wicked Negg your pet may come down with a disease, but your pet may also increase speed.
		Fizzy Ummagine Potion: if you feed your pet a Fizzy Ummagine Potion your pet, it can come down with Bloaty Belly, but it could also heal your pet up to 5 hitpoints.

Some species are allergic to certain foods; if they eat them they will become ill:

		Kyrii: Kyrii will come down with Itchy Scratchies if you feed them any Apple item.
		Quiggle: Quiggles will come down with Neezles if you feed them any Cream item.
		Skeith: Skeiths will come down with Neezles if you feed them any Cheese item.
		Tonu: Tonu will come down with Neezles if you feed them any Negg item.

Your pet can also get ill if your opponent uses a certain weapon on you, when the fight is over, regardless of whether you won or lost, your pet will end up being ill.

		Buzz Poison Blaster: When hit by a Buzz Poison Blaster in battle, your pet will get Blurred Vision. Note: Only Buzzes can use this weapon.
		Caw Of Despair: When hit by a Caw Of Despair in battle, your pet will get NeoBlues. Note: One Player Battledome Challenger The Black Pteri only uses this weapon.
		Coral Cutlass: When hit by a Coral Cutlass in battle, your pet will get Fuzzy Fungus or Itchy Scratchies.
		Darkness Scarab: When hit by a Darkness Scarab in battle, your pet will get Itchy Scratchies.
		Mistletoe Potion: When hit by a Mistletoe Potion in battle, your pet will get Hoochie Coochies.
		Mysterious Hemlock Dart: When hit by a Mysterious Hemlock Dart in battle, your pet will get Bloaty Belly.
		Poison Dart: When hit by a Poison Dart in battle, your pet will get Cricky Neck.
		Poison Muffin: When hit by a Poison Muffin in battle, your pet will get Unknown.
		Poison Snowball: When hit by a Poison Snowball in battle, your pet will get Hoochie Coochies.
		Poison Tipped Dagger: When hit by a Poison Tipped Dagger in battle, your pet will get NeoWarts.
		Poisonous Flower: When hit by a Poisonous Flower in battle, your pet will get Itchy Scratchies.
		Poisonous Snowflake: When hit by a Poisonous Snowflake in battle, your pet will get Hoochie Coochies.
		Portable Cloud: When hit by a Portable Cloud in battle, your pet will get Watery Eyes.
		Super Hemlock Dart: When hit by a Super Hemlock Dart in battle, your pet will get Bloaty Belly.
		Super Poison Dart: When hit by a Super Poison Dart in battle, your pet will get Cricky Neck.
		Vile Swamp Water: When hit by Vile Swamp Water in battle, your pet will get Watery Eyes. Note: One Player Battledome Challenger Slug Monster uses this weapon.

What do you do if a pet gets ill?
If your pet is ill, your pet will not be able to fight in the Battledome and will become very unhappy, you can check your pets' mood on the QuickRef page. If your pet becomes unhappy it can change color to blue or red, so that's definitely not a good thing! Therefore you must ensure to keep your pets happy. This means that leaving your pet ill is definitely not an option. Your only option will be to make cure your pets.

 

How to cure your pet:

There are a few ways to cure your pet, some are cheap, others pricy, some are instant, others could take a while. All the options will be discussed below, including their pro's and con's.




The Healing Springs
The cheapest option to cure your pet is most definitely visiting the Water Faerie at her Healing Springs in Faerieland. There is the possibility that the Water Faerie will heal your pet, for free! But since there are a variety of possible spells the Water Faerie can cast, it might take a while before you get her to heal your pet.

You can try going to the Healing Springs every 30 minutes, you must ensure that your ill pet is your active pet, otherwise one of your other pets might get the healing spell. Below you can see a list of all possibly things that can happen when you visit the Healing Springs.

The Water Faerie says a few magical words and...

- All of your Neopets gain three hit points. Sorry, that was the best I could do :) - All of your Neopets gain seven hit points. I hope that helps! :) - All of your Neopets gain ten hit points. Wow! That was a good spell! :) - All of your Neopets gain fifteen hit points. I am getting better at this!! :) - Petname is fully healed!!! - Petname regains their hit points, and is not hungry any more!!! - All your Neopets have their health completely restored!!! - Healing Potion X appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'. - Healing Potion II appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'. - Healing Potion IX appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'. - Juicy Elixir appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'. - Healing Potion I appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'. - Poison Snowball appears in her hand. She hands it to you... 'Use this wisely!'.

Obviously you will need the Water Faerie to cast the spell that says 'Petname is fully healed!!!' or 'All your Neopets have their health completely restored!!!'. Any of the other spells will not get rid of that nasty disease your pet has.

All together this is a great way to get your pet healed if you are low on neopoints, it could however, take a while before your pet gets healed.

On Faerie Festival (September 20th) the Water Faerie will always say the following:

The Water Faerie says a few magical words and...

- In celebration of the Faerie Festival, all your Neopets have their health completely restored!!!

This will heal all your pets from any disease they might have! Yay!


The Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity
If you visit the Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity in Faerieland, there's a chance that the Grundo plushie will heal your pet of a disease.

The message you see will look like this:

Nothing seems to make a Neopet feel better than a soft little plushie, and Petname is no exception. She is looking better already.

This is a free activity that you can visit daily, but the odds of healing your pet this way are low.

 

Buying Medicines

If you just cannot wait to get your pet cured and you would like to cure it instantly, medicine are the best option, but most likely one of the most expensive options too.

There are three kinds of medicine you can choose from. One is the regular instant cure medicine from the Neopian Pharmacy. These medications will cure your pet instantly when you use them.

Second are the lost desert medicines from the Emergency Supplies shop. These medicines are cheaper than the ones from the Neopian Pharmacy, but they are also lower quality. This means that you might need to give your pet several of these medicines before your pet is actually cures. These medicines may or may not work, you never know. It could take 10 tries before a medicine works.

There is also a new medicine shop that has opened in Shenkuu, which is called Remarkable Restoratives. These cures are also less effective than the cures from the Neopian Pharmacy. These medicines may or may not work, you never know. It could take 10 tries before a medicine works.

Below you can see a list of all diseases and their possible medicines
 

 

Unknown

These are the medicines we do not know the cure for yet and are trying to find. It could be that neo has just forgotten to activate their curing abilities, or we may just not have found it yet. Thanks clarice_desand for sharing their information on a large amount of diseases they have tested so far with us!
 

 

Alternative ways of healing

Apart from the healing springs and buying medicines there are also other ways you can heal your pet.
 

		Yellow Healthshroom: Feeding your pet a Yellow Healthshroom will instantly heal your pet from any disease. It will also heal your pet 15 hitpoints.
		Warm Amber Ointment: Feeding a pet 'Warm Amber Ointment' will heal your pet from any disease.
		Magic Ghost Marshmallows: Feeding a Ghost pet 'Magic Ghost Marshmallows' will restore it's hitpoints to their maximum and they will heal your pet from any disease.
		Pteri: If you feed your Pteri any 'worm' item, your pet will be bloated and healed from any disease.
		Kau: If you feed your Kau any 'milk' item, your pet will be bloated and healed from any disease.

Changing the pet's disease
If your pet has a disease for which the medicines are really expensive, and you are not patient enough to wait for the Healing springs to help you out, you can also change the disease of your pet. By using any of the items listed in the first section of this page on your pet, he or she will go from one disease, to a new one, which may be cheaper to cure.