5. Direct Contact with the Virus
If you come into any direct contact with the H. Pylori virus, the odds are that you have contracted it yourself and will start showing symptoms soon after you have been exposed.
Usually, this can take a few days through to a few weeks – but in cases of a recurring H. Pylori infection, these instances and bouts of the condition can appear to be months apart even though it’s technically the same infection that keeps coming back time after time.
Count the time a few weeks back from the first onset of your symptoms if you want to figure out where you might have contracted the condition. Symptoms don’t start immediately, but instead, only kick in after there has been an incubation period for the H. Pylori bacteria.
Some of the causes mentioned in this article are direct causes, while some are indirect. In either of these cases, exposure to H. Pylori means that you might start showing symptoms – but some people carry the virus without these symptoms.