How to Make Your Sims Nauseous or Sick in The Sims 4

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Give your Sims a fever, dizziness, or a nasty headache

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Last Updated: December 4, 2023 Fact Checked

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Making your sims sick can be a unique way to change up your gameplay experience—best of all, it’s easy to do with some simple cheat codes and the Get to Work expansion pack. We’ll walk you through some cheat-filled and cheat-free ways to make your sims ill in The Sims 4, as well as a workaround for The Sims FreePlay.

Things You Should Know

Enter an “add buff” cheat to make your sims sick manually, like sims.add_buff Fever_severe.
Download a mod like Healthcare Redux to add more illness-related content to your game.
Purchase expansion and stuff packs like Get to Work, Jungle Adventures, and My First Pet to give your sims new ways to get sick.

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Sims 4 Sickness Cheats

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Type in cheats using while owning the Get to Work expansion pack. Open up the cheats bar by pressing Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C (both Mac and Windows) or by hitting all four shoulder buttons on your controller (console games).

Type in testingcheats true and hit ↵ Enter. Then, enter:
- Coughing/Sneezing: sims.add_buff CoughSneeze_severe
- Delirious: sims.add_buff SeeingThings_severe
- Dizzy: sims.add_buff Dizzy_severe
- Fever: sims.add_buff Fever_severe
- Giggly: sims.add_buff Giggly_severe
- Headache: sims.add_buff Headache_severe
- Itchy: sims.add_buff Itchy_severe
- Nauseous: sims.add_buff Nauseous_severe
- Tense: sims.add_buff SteamyEars_severe
- Note: Only one illness can be given to a Sim at a time.
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Download mods that allow for additional illnesses. Add mods to your game by downloading and unzipping the file to the Mods folder in your Sims 4 game files (C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods on Windows or Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods on Mac). Then, go to your in-game settings and toggle on Enable custom content and mods.^{[1]
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- Healthcare Redux
- AllCheats Mod

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Cheat-Free Sims 4 Sickness Tricks

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Make your Sim nauseous. A Sim can get nauseous (and even throw up) by:
- Eating spoiled food
- Being pregnant (in the first trimester)
- Having the Squeamish trait and witnessing something scary, gross, or embarrassing
- Preparing for an exam (Discover University expansion pack)
- Eating human food as a vampire (Vampires expansion pack)
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Download an expansion or stuff pack. Several expansion packs for Sims 4 introduce new illnesses for your Sim.
- Get to Work: Bloaty Head, Gas and Giggles, Sweaty Shivers, Starry Eyes, Burning Belly, Llama Flu, Itchy Plumbob, Triple Threat
- Jungle Adventures: Poison darts, spider bites, bee stings, gas doors, ghosts
- My First Pet Stuff: Rabid Rodent Fever
- Seasons: Colds (in the wintertime)
- Werewolves: Werebies
- Dine Out: Food poisoning

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How to Make Your Sims Sick on Sims FreePlay

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Shake your screen while playing the game. Moving or shaking your screen can make your Sims nauseous and even vomit.
- What about The Sims Mobile? Sims in The Sims Mobile may vomit if you don't spend SimCash or cupcakes on a Surprising Choice, but there are no known ways to make them throw up without it.

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Buy a toilet, click on it, and a pie menu will come up. Select "use."

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