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.
Data on taking vitamin C for hypertension are also mixed. Taking vitamin C with antihypertensive medications may slightly decrease systolic blood pressure, but not diastolic pressure. Supplemental vitamin C -- 500 mg per day taken without antihypertensives -- doesn't seem to reduce systolic or diastolic blood pressure. Type 2 diabetics who supplemented with vitamin C and remained on their antihypertensive medications seemed to have a reduction in blood pressure and arterial stiffness.