How to get rid of bad breath - emergency measures

Nearly seventy percent of the world's people suffer from halitosis, a condition that is manifested by an unpleasant odor from the oral cavity. The appearance of a repulsive aroma is influenced by many factors - from banal caries to gastrointestinal problems. In order to get rid of bad breath once and for all, the cause of its occurrence should be eliminated.

Causes of Bad Breath

This pathology has two varieties - the oral form of halitosis and extraoral. In the first form of the disease, the smell of stench from the oral cavity indicates dental diseases, the second type of manifestation of stale breathing haunts people with various internal pathologies.

Causes of oral halitosis

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  Caries

  Caries - dark spots on the surface of tooth enamel affected by bacteria. They not only look ugly, but also stink. To prevent caries from spreading to the deeper layers of the tooth, you need to rinse your mouth after each meal and visit the dentist as soon as there is free time.

• Periodontitis, gingivitis - gum disease that develops due to the accumulation of stones on the teeth. May occur in patients who rarely brush their teeth or do it wrong. Bad breath caused by periodontitis or gingivitis cannot be eliminated at home. Only a dentist can remove hardened plaque using special equipment.
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  Stomatitis

  Stomatitis is an inflammation in the oral cavity, which is often manifested by a foul smell due to ulcerative wounds and other lesions of the mucous membrane of the tongue and gums.

• Violation of the salivary glands leads to stench in the oral cavity, since after eating the prescribed amount of mucus is not produced, which should quickly remove food debris, eliminate bacteria. From the oral cavity it starts to smell bad due to the accumulation of plaque, consisting of microbes and leftover food.
• If the patient has a malocclusion, teeth are bent, then in hard-to-reach places microorganisms begin to multiply, whose vital products give an unpleasant odor.

Only the treatment of caries, stomatitis, gingivitis or other dental disease that caused it to help get rid of bad breath.

Causes of Extraoral Halitosis

To cure extraoral halitosis, you need to see a therapist. He will make an initial diagnosis, and then refer to a specialist who will study in detail the source of the unpleasant odor. Only proper and competent treatment will help the patient get rid of halitosis and cure the disease that caused it to appear.

The list of pathologies with such symptoms is huge, among the most common diseases are:

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  Tonsillitis

  Diseases of the ENT organs, which are accompanied by inflammation of the tonsils, sore throat and the spread of pathogenic microflora, due to which it stinks from the mouth. The treatment of halitosis in this case comes down to eliminating the infection. You can defeat the disease with a comprehensive treatment, which the otolaryngologist will recommend. You won’t be able to quickly get rid of halitosis, since you will have to take antibiotics and rinse with antiseptic solutions.

• Gastrointestinal diseases that occur in a chronic form are always accompanied by a symptom of stale breathing. Methods of dealing with it are reduced to the elimination of these ailments.
• Pathology of the liver, gall bladder. To get rid of halitosis, which arose for this reason, you need to consult a gastroenterologist who treats gastrointestinal diseases.
• A disorder of the endocrine system, which is accompanied by diabetes mellitus, which provokes halitosis. Such a pathology requires constant monitoring of blood glucose levels and symptomatic treatment.

How to check for bad breath

Halitosis can be detected independently. If outwardly the tongue is pink, without plaque - this is a good sign. White, yellow, brown, rough tongue indicates a malfunction in the body.

The presence of stench can be determined using a spoon: take a cutlery and swipe it with the tip on the surface of the tongue, then let the spoon dry and after a while, smell it. If the device stinks, consult a doctor. You need to do this as quickly as possible so as not to start the disease.

If there is no spoon at hand, lick the back of your hand. After the hand dries, smell it. If it smells unpleasant, then some kind of disease is progressing in the body.

Getting rid of halitosis - a set of measures

An unpleasant odor often appears after eating too smelling herbaceous plants. Onions and garlic are useful for fighting infections, but it is extremely difficult to remove their aroma. Even chewing gum eliminates the pungent odor only for a short time, then it returns again. Therefore, with frequent use of odorous products, it does not hurt to periodically rinse your mouth with tea with a persistent aroma of fruits or herbs. No less effective folk remedy for odor in the mouth - chewing mint, eating lemon, apples, raspberries, oranges and other fruits.

If halitosis proceeds only in oral form, without auxiliary pathologies, then you can permanently remove bad breath at home. Action plan:

• When buying personal hygiene products, always pay attention to the composition: they must contain natural ingredients that are most useful for the body. It is not possible to quickly rid the microbes of the oral cavity with the help of toothpaste, but it is quite possible to prevent the occurrence of halitosis with its help.
• It is useless to treat halitosis at home with the help of folk remedies in the presence of dental problems. Start treating your teeth at the dentist, find out from him the better to rinse your mouth so that there is no smell. After, rinse your mouth for a fortnight. If this does not help, go to the doctor again.
• Cleaning the fetid odor will help cleaning the tongue. There is no sense in the prevention of dental diseases if harmful microorganisms that accumulate on the surface of the tongue still remain in the oral cavity. Therefore, special attention must be paid to cleaning the tongue, you can clean it from plaque with a toothbrush, on the back of its head there are spikes designed specifically for this.

After each use of the toothbrush, do not forget to rinse it, brush your teeth for at least one minute and be sure to use floss to clean hard-to-reach spots.

How to get rid of bad breath at home

The natural microflora of the oral cavity dies due to the accumulation of harmful bacteria. To fight them, you need to drink water more often. Such an action will help get rid of microorganisms - and the smell will disappear.

Forever get rid of bad breath at home will not work. It is basically impossible to cure halitosis without visiting a doctor, but you can try to reduce the intensity of an unpleasant odor with a rinse aid. A pharmaceutical solution for rinsing the mouth will work more efficiently if, after its use, you do not smoke or eat food for at least half an hour.

There are many types of pharmaceutical rinses, most of them contain alcohol. But if you do not like such a composition, then you can make your own rinse. An effective folk remedy with which you can fight the smell in your mouth is green tea. Recipe for decoction:

• In a glass of hot water, brew chamomile flowers, sage leaves or lemon balm stems.
• Let the herbal tea “gain strength” after standing for forty minutes, covered with a saucer.
• It remains only to strain the broth and rinse their mouth.

If halitosis has found a person at the workplace or on the road - where you will not find a boiler or stove to brew a therapeutic panacea - you can use other means that remove the unpleasant odor no less effectively:

• Fresh fruits, vegetables that crunch (apples, celery) help fight pathogenic microflora in the mouth. Eliminate harmful microflora by arranging snacks between meals.
• Cinnamon, parsley, cloves save even from the smell of alcohol and garlic. They have long been used by traditional healers for diseases of the mucous membrane in the oral cavity.
• Anise seeds will not only save you from "bad" breathing, but also improve digestion.

The main sources of the occurrence of such an unpleasant condition as halitosis, and ways to combat the manifestation are discussed above. If after the procedures the stench from your mouth does not disappear or quickly reappears, do not ignore the symptoms - go to the doctor.