Getting rid of mouth odor starts from your stomach. First try to change your diet and then come and fix what’s in your mouth. Read the article to find out more.
1. Eat a healthy, balanced diet and regular meals. Certain diets such as extreme fasting and very low carb diets can give you bad smelling breath.
2. Consider snacking on raw carrots, celery, or apple slices. It’s good to have a nice watery vegetable in there. Something like celery that will help clear your mouth of debris.
3. Avoid breath busters such as garlic, onions, and some other spicy foods. Chronic garlic users cannot only have chronic bad breath, they also often have body odor.
Things to avoid
1. Stay hydrated. If you can’t brush your teeth after a meal, drinking a lot of water can help speed up the process of cleaning harmful bacteria and debris from between your teeth. Drinking milk can even help deodorize some offensive breath odors. Avoid sugary drinks.
2. Don’t drink too much coffee. It may be tasty, but coffee is a tough smell to get off the back of your tongue. Consider switching to an herbal or green tea.
3. Don’t smoke or use other tobacco products. Cigarettes, pipes, and snuff can foul your breath. Smoking can give people horrible breath.
4. Cut back on alcohol. Alcohol can lead to a dry mouth. Too much beer, wine, and hard liquor can make your breath reek for up to eight to 10 hours after you finish drinking.
5. Chew sugarless gum. Doing so 20 minutes after a meal can help with saliva flow.
6. Be careful with breath mints. Sugar-free mints are fine for a quick fix but only mask the offensive smell and don’t do anything to remove harmful bad bacteria. Sugar will only sit on your teeth and make the problem worse.
What causes bad breath?
Bad breath can have several causes.
1. Most people’s mouth do not smell fresh when they wake up from bed. This is normal. If you brush your teeth before going to bed, the early morning smelly mouth will not be too bad, in fact some people don’t smell at all.
2. In most cases, bad breath is caused by bacteria in the mouth breaking down bits of food.
3. Persistent bad breath is often a sign of gum disease.
4. Eating strongly flavoured foods, such as onions and garlic, can cause your breath to smell unpleasant.
5. Occasionally, bad breath is the result of an infection or illness, or taking some kinds of medication.
What can you do?
1.Good oral hygiene is usually enough to prevent and treat bad breath. When you brush your teeth, try to brush the back of your tongue, where it is harder to reach.
2. Your dentist can advise you on how to improve your oral health and can refer you for further investigation if they think there may be another cause for your bad breath.
How to find out if you have bad breath.
1. Get a very good friend to be absolutely honest, but do make sure they are a true friend.
2. A simple test you can do yourself is to lick the inside of your wrist and wait for the saliva to dry. If the area you licked smells unpleasant, it is likely that your breath does too.
If you still have bad breath after ensuring that you are doing your best with your teeth care, you definitely want to speak to your dentist immediately, because there could be an underlying problem that needs immediate attention.
Be orally clean and fresh.