Well if you develop symptoms it can take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks. If you donât have symptoms, you could have an outbreak within 3 weeks. However if you donât show symptoms or outbreaks you will still want to be tested by a doctor to be sure you do not have herpes.
That may sound like a way to help cover your nutritional bases, especially if your diet is less than stellar. But routinely getting an overload of vitamins and minerals can hurt you. Too much vitamin C or zinc could cause nausea, diarrhea, and stomach cramps. Too much selenium could lead to hair loss, gastrointestinal upset, fatigue, and mild nerve damage.
Antidiarrheal agents are safe for patients > 2 yr with watery diarrhea (as shown by heme-negative stool). However, antidiarrheals may cause deterioration of patients with C. difficile or E. coli O157:H7 infection and thus should not be given to any patient with recent antibiotic use or heme-positive stool, pending specific diagnosis.