Neopian Diseases and Cures

You wouldn't think it, but Neopia can be a pretty sickly place sometimes! With diseases ranging from Grumbles to Bloaty Belly roaming the streets, chances are that at some point your Neopets will fall ill. Whether you rely on the standard pharmacy, alternative medicines, or the Healing Springs, there's something for every pet.

Diagnosing Your Pet

So, you think your pet is sick? Well there's an easy way to check! You can tell whether pets are sick by visiting the Quick Ref page. If your pet is sick, you will see a message about what illness they have. This message will also include a handy link to the Neopian Hospital where you can view a list of all diseases, as well as fun descriptions about them. Their sickness may also be visible in their appearance.

Where to Buy Medicine

Once you know what disease your pet has, the next step is purchasing the proper medication. Check the Known Cures tables to see what type of medication to purchase. All of these items are sold in the Neopian Pharmacy, Lost Desert Medicine, or Remarkable Restoratives. You can also visit the Shop Wizard and purchase the items from fellow Neopians.

Once you've purchased an item, simply select "cure" from the dropdown menu in your inventory to give it to the appropriate pet.

Healing Strategies

If the medicine your pet needs is too expensive, don't worry. You have several options that don't involve buying the cures listed below. Your best bet is to visit the Healing Springs every 30 minutes, free of charge, until your pet is healed. Another avenue is the Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity, but it is only available once a day & the healing rate is very low.

If you're in a hurry, though, there's an option that doesn't involve the wait of the Healing Springs. You can actually give your pet a different disease that's cheaper to cure; check out our items that give diseases article for a list of items you can use. We recommend feeding your pet a Poisonous Lollypop. It's extremely cheap and will give your pet Floppy Tongue, which can be healed with a Tongue Shrinker. Please note that you are not guaranteed to come down with Floppy Tongue on the first try—you may need to feed your pet several lollypops before it works!

Don't we look delicious?

Reasons to Cure Your Neopet

If your Neopet is sick, it will not be able to battle in the Battledome. It will also have a sickly appearance, which is just no fun to look at!

Known Cures

The following table lists all of the illnesses that your Neopet can catch, as well as any items that are known to cure them. We have divided these items up into two different categories: guaranteed to cure and potential to cure. Items in the guaranteed category are from the Neopian Pharmacy and have a 100% success rate at healing your pet. They will heal your pet on the first attempt. The items in the potential category are purchased from Lost Desert Medicine or Remarkable Restoratives. Some are also awarded from various site events. These items, as the category name suggests, have the potential to cure your pet. They are not guaranteed to work on the first attempt and it may take many tries before they are successful.

Achy Head

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Achy Head:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Achy Head. They may not work 100% of the time:

Bloaty Belly

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Bloaty Belly:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Bloaty Belly. They may not work 100% of the time:

Bloaty Feet

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Bloaty Feet:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Bloaty Feet. They may not work 100% of the time:

Blurred Vision

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Blurred Vision:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Blurred Vision. They may not work 100% of the time:

Bubbles

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Bubbles:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Bubbles. They may not work 100% of the time:

Chickaroo

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Chickaroo:

Cricky Neck

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Cricky Neck:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Cricky Neck. They may not work 100% of the time:

D'achoo

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of D'achoo:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of D'achoo. It may not work 100% of the time:

Doldrums

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Doldrums:

Floppy Tongue

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Floppy Tongue:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Floppy Tongue. It may not work 100% of the time:

Fuzzitus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Fuzzitus:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Fuzzitus. It may not work 100% of the time:

Fuzzy Fungus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Fuzzy Fungus:

Grumbles

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Grumbles:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Grumbles. It may not work 100% of the time:

Hoochie Coochies

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Hoochie Coochies:

Itchy Scratchies

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Itchy Scratchies:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Itchy Scratchies. It may not work 100% of the time:

Jitters

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Jitters:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Jitters. It may not work 100% of the time:

Kikoughela

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Kikoughela:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Kikoughela. It may not work 100% of the time:

Lumps

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Lumps:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Lumps. They may not work 100% of the time:

Neezles

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Neezles:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Neezles. It may not work 100% of the time:

Neggitus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Neggitus:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Neggitus. They may not work 100% of the time:

NeoBlues

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoBlues:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of NeoBlues. It may not work 100% of the time:

Neo Flu

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Neo Flu:

Neogitus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Neogitus:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Neogitus. They may not work 100% of the time:

NeoMites

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoMites:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of NeoMites. They may not work 100% of the time:

NeoMonia

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoMonia:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of NeoMonia. It may not work 100% of the time:

NeoPhobia

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoPhobia:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of NeoPhobia. They may not work 100% of the time:

NeoPox

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoPox:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of NeoPox. They may not work 100% of the time:

NeoWarts

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of NeoWarts:

Pollenitus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Pollenitus:

Reptillioritus

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Reptillioritus:

Shaky Flakys

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Shaky Flakys:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Shaky Flakys. It may not work 100% of the time:

Shock-A-Lots

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Shock-A-Lots:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Shock-A-Lots. It may not work 100% of the time:

Sneezles

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Sneezles:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Sneezles. It may not work 100% of the time:

Spyder Bite

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Spyder Bite:

Ugga-Ugga

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Ugga-Ugga:

This item has a chance to cure your pet of Ugga-Ugga. It may not work 100% of the time:

Watery Eyes

These items are guaranteed to cure your pet of Watery Eyes:

These items have a chance to cure your pet of Watery Eyes. They may not work 100% of the time:

Cure-Alls

The following table contains "potential" cure-alls for any of the above diseases. These items are multi-effect, meaning that one of their effects is a complete cure-all, but they also have other known effects (for example: making your pet not hungry). It is random which effect you will receive, so while these items have the chance of fully curing your pet it is not a guaranteed effect on the first (or fifth) usage.

Pteris and Worms

If you feed your sick Pteri any item with the word "worm" in its name, you will cure the Pteri of any disease it has, along with changing its hunger level all the way up to bloated. This is almost always the cheapest way to cure your Pteri.

The "Doctor Who?" Boon

Certain factions give the opportunity of activating the Doctor Who? boon if you side with them and they emerge victorious from the Battleground of the Obelisk. When selected, this boon will automatically heal your pet of any disease it contracts.

Hit Point Restorers

Some items, although labeled as medical cures, will not actually cure your pet of an illness. Rather, these items are out-of-battledome healers, similar to Healing Potions. This means that they have the ability to restore some (or all) of your pet's hit points. It may take several tries before they work, however. They are not guaranteed to work on the first attempt.

Unknown Cures

It isn't known which ailments the following items are intended to cure. If you happen to know what any of these items cure, please let us know!

Non-Cures

These items cannot be used on your pet at all, despite being labelled as cures.

Despite being labeled as a cure, the Bottled Holiday Cheer item does not cure any diseases, but rather acts as a healer in battle when equipped to your Neopet.

Glitched Items

The following items are clearly intended to cure a specific ailment based on their name and/or description yet for some reason they are glitched. Glitched is determined by when a Neopet will explicitly refuse the item, stating that it is "not the right medicine". If any of these items become fixed in the future, please let us know! We've included the disease that the item was intended for.

Contracting a Disease

Disease in Neopia have different ways how they can be contracted. To learn more about how to catch some diseases listed above, visit our Items That Give Diseases page. Diseases can also be contracted from The Wheel of Misfortune or The Wheel of Excitement, and from Random Events.

This article was written by: JN Staff