- posted: Jan. 13, 2025
Too many of us walk around and assume that we are healthy because we don't have symptoms of some kind. Did you know that you can be unhealthy for days before you have any symptoms whatso ever? Not only for the cold and flu but this holds true to other disease within your body as well. For example plaque buildup in your arteries... this takes years sometime decades before you every notice. The same holds true for most cancers, it takes years and sometimes decades before you ever have a symptom.
It is important to avoid waiting until you feel bad to try and be healthy. Chiropractic care allows your body to function and heal at optimal levels. Allowing your brain to talk to your body and your body to talk back to your brain. When they are in good communication your body will work better, it will feel better and you will HEAL better!
Take action today, don't wait! Get an appointment with a wellness chiropractor so you can be on top of your health. Its ALWAYS easier to maintain your health vs repairing your health. Below I supplied a few samples of incubation periods to give you an idea of what your body is going through before you ever even realize it.
- Breast and bowel cancer: Tumors can start growing about 10 years before they're detected
- Prostate cancer: Tumors can be decades old before they're detected
- Lung cancer: It can take 30 years after starting to smoke for lung cancer to develop
- Colon cancer: It can take 10–15 years for a benign polyp to turn into cancer
Typical incubation periods for infectious diseases you or your family might encounter.
- Adenovirus: Usually five to six days but can be two to 14 days.
- Chickenpox: 10 to 21 days (average 14 to 16 days).
- Common cold: 12 hours to three days.
- COVID-19: Two to 14 days (average of three to four days for omicron and its subvariants).
- Hand, foot and mouth disease: Three to six days.
- Influenza (flu): One to four days.
- Measles: Usually eight to 12 days but can be up to 21 days.
- Mono (mononucleosis or glandular fever): Four to six weeks.
- Pink eye (bacterial): 24 to 72 hours
- Pink eye (viral): 12 hours to 12 days.
- Rubella: 12 to 23 days (average of 14 days).
- RSV: Four to six days
- Strep throat: Two to five days.
- Tetanus: Three to 21 days.
- Walking (atypical) pneumonia: Two to four weeks
Stomach bug incubation period
- Campylobacter infection: Usually two to four days but can be one to 10 days.
- E. coli infection (affecting your digestive system): Eight hours to 10 days, depending on the strain.
- Giardiasis (acute): One to 14 days (average of seven days).
- Norovirus: 12 to 48 hours.
- Rotavirus: One to two days.
- Salmonella infection: Usually 12 hours to four days but can be seven days or longer.