HEALTH and Healing

Health and Healing in the Far Far Future

By and Large sophonts are healthy. High Tech medical practice has eliminated many of the old diseases from Earth, Vilis, and other Ancient-settled populations. Now and again something mutates or is encountered for the first time; but Medical Science has centuries of experience dealing with that sort of thing. It would be highly unusual for some new plague to get started and spread over more than just a couple of star-systems. Though there could be quite a lot of local suffering and death while cures and prevantitives were devised.

But there are always injuries, including combat wounds. Medical treatment has improved in this realm as well...

(work in progress)

Jump Sickness

Mis-Jumps are difficult to detect even with the best Engineering hardware and skills. Usually the first sign that a mis-jump has happened is that within a few minutes to hours of entering jump-space crew members begin exibiting symptoms of Jump Sickness.

Jump Sickness is a well known malady with no definite cure. Treatments are directed towards symptoms. The most common of which is vertigo. With nausea (and vomiting) a close second. These can be treated with "over-the-counter" medications. The medications are taken orally, three times a day, and relief is usually seen within 24 hours. Bed rest and drinking pleny of fluids is recommended. Inability to keep water 'down', ie continuous vomiting, is a potential severe form of this most common type of jump sickness and is treated with IV fluids and sedation.

More serious symptoms are also possible. Severe Headache (migrane) that may last for several weeks. Epileptic-like seizures, with a chance that these may recur indefinitely , though that is rare.

Mental Illness; delusions, personality change, paranoia, "visions", and similar presentations can occur, though rarely. Treatment per standard psychiatric protocols.