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.
Passing loose, watery stools several times a day is called diarrhea. When a person has diarrhea, he loses fluids and nutrients very quickly. A healthy adult may have diarrhea for a day or two, and will quickly recover. But losing so much fluid and nutrition is dangerous for children, old people, and people already weak from malnutrition or another sickness. Care for children with diarrhea is explained in Chapter 28: Caring for Children.