Bad Breath And Eating

Eat When You Are Hungry.

Avoid an empty stomach. Yep, that’s right! If you don’t eat, your saliva production is reduced. You need that saliva to wash away the bacteria and avoid dry mouth.

Drink Lots Of Water To Keep Your Mouth Moist.

This can help your overall health as well. If you are drinking bottled water, you may be missing out on a valuable resource. Most community water systems include fluoride in your drinking water.

When you drink bottled water you lose out on that benefit. Don’t forget a home water filtration system. For example, if you are using a reverse osmosis system, all the valuable nutrients are being removed including fluoride.

Add Tea To Your List Of Preferred Beverages.

It is thought that the chemical polyphenols found in tea help to prevent that sulfur producing bacteria that contributes to bad breath.

Cranberry Juice.

Try drinking cranberry juice or eating cranberries. Plaque is less likely to form because the cranberries reduce the stickiness of the bacteria.

Scurvy.

Scurvy? Yes, this may shock you but there are still instances of “scurvy” in the modern world of today. Scurvy is caused by a lack of Vitamin C and can cause the gums to bleed and also manifest as bad breath. Vitamin A is also necessary for the overall health of the gums and teeth. Here is a list of nutrients that can be beneficial for bad breath and the recommended dosage:

Vitamin A: 10,000 I.U. per day

Vitamin B complex - daily

Vitamin B6 - daily

Vitamin C: 1,000 mg. three times a day

Calcium: 2,300 mg. a day

Coenzyme Q10: 30 mg. three times a day

Vitamin E: 400 mg. a day

Folic acid: 800 mcg. a day

Niacin – daily

Dairy Products.

The holistic healing community suggests that dairy products may contribute to fermentation of food in the stomach. Their suggestion is to eliminate all dairy products for one week and use that as a measure to determine whether your bad breath improves.

Enzymes.

Another school of thought suggests using a digestive enzyme after eating each meal. Since necessary bacteria in the digestive system tends to thrive in a more alkaline environment creating that environment artificially may help prevent the fermentation. Try taking a small amount (about 1/8th of a teaspoon) of pure sodium bicarbonate approximately 20 minutes after eating. It may very well improve your digestion as well as help in the prevention of bad breath.

Oral Candida Treatment.

Also known as “thrush,” candida is one of those yeast (fungal) infections that can be annoying and difficult to get rid of but it can be done.

Begin with removing all refined sugar products from your diet. That includes yeast based products especially. You don’t want to pour “fertilizer” on a yeast infection.

If you have been on any type of antibiotic treatment they may have upset the creation of good bacteria that helps digestion. In this case, you need to encourage the growth of bacteria to offset bacterial loss while taking the antibiotic.

Try taking a “probiotic.” Just the opposite of an antibiotic, the probiotic introduces millions of live bacteria back into your system thereby offsetting the damage done by the anti-biotic.

The most commonly know probiotic is lactobacillus acidophilus. You may have seen L. acidophilus milk in the dairy section of your grocery store. This is milk that has been enriched with the L. acidophilus bacteria. L. acidophilus is also found in yogurt and you can find it in supplemental form at any health food store.

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