diff --git a/code/modules/antagonists/changeling/powers/become_headslug.dm b/code/modules/antagonists/changeling/powers/become_headslug.dm
index 7bf97bacda1..a9cc40e08a5 100644
--- a/code/modules/antagonists/changeling/powers/become_headslug.dm
+++ b/code/modules/antagonists/changeling/powers/become_headslug.dm
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 			crab.origin.active = TRUE
 			crab.origin.transfer_to(crab)
 			to_chat(crab, "<span class='warning'>You burst out of the remains of your former body in a shower of gore!</span>")
-			to_chat(crab, "<span class='boldnotice'>We must bite the corpse of a non-primitive humanoid to lay our egg within them.</span>")
+			to_chat(crab, "<span class='boldnotice'>Our eggs can be laid in any humanoid by ALT-CLICKing on them, this takes 5 seconds.</span>")
 			to_chat(crab, "<span class='boldnotice'>Though this form shall perish after laying the egg, our true self shall be reborn in time.</span>")
 
 	// This is done because after the original changeling gibs below, ALL of their actions are qdeleted
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/headslug.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/headslug.dm
index d71e88c653e..be30e6efa36 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/headslug.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/headslug.dm
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 
 		cling.give_power(new /datum/action/changeling/humanform)
 		M.key = origin.key
+		M.revive() // better make sure some weird shit doesn't happen, because it has in the past
 	owner.gib()
 
 #undef EGG_INCUBATION_DEAD_TIME
diff --git a/code/modules/surgery/organs/organ.dm b/code/modules/surgery/organs/organ.dm
index bff3e5c8885..95f290ef5c0 100644
--- a/code/modules/surgery/organs/organ.dm
+++ b/code/modules/surgery/organs/organ.dm
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@
 	if(istype(loc,/obj/item/mmi))
 		germ_level = max(0, germ_level - 1) // So a brain can slowly recover from being left out of an MMI
 		return TRUE
+	if(istype(loc, /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/headslug) || istype(loc, /obj/item/organ/internal/body_egg/changeling_egg))
+		germ_level = 0 // weird stuff might happen, best to be safe
+		return TRUE
 	if(is_found_within(/obj/structure/closet/crate/freezer))
 		return TRUE
 	if(is_found_within(/obj/machinery/clonepod))