Do you wish you could find a reliable remedy for bad breath?  There are some short term bad breath solutions but like everything else you have to form good oral hygiene daily habits for a fresh breath.

Okay, here are some facts.  A full 70% of the people you know have bad breath.  

• 35% of everyone you know has chronic bad breath meaning they are concerned with their breath 24 hours a day and may seek professional help  
• 35% of the people you come in contact with have borderline bad breath, meaning their breath seems fresh throughout the day but something as minor as sickness, certain foods, will jump them into the chronic   
• 30%  rarely worry about bad breath except when eating certain foods.

Bottom line - if you are breathing, you’ve had halitosis.  It doesn’t matter which group you fall into, because each group the morning breath problem.

_{Food Can Be the Fresh Breath Problem}

Short term bad breath, for certain people, can be caused by a special group of foods. The best known foods are onions and garlic. Sulfur compounds (rotten egg smell) in high concentrations increases the smell in these foods.

Here are three short term remedies to get rid of bad breath caused by food.

• Set limits on how much you eat of these foods.
• If you have had onions, clean your tongue and brush your teeth after eating.
• Gum, breath sprays, mints are short term remedies to hide your bad breath

Don’t consider these long lasting solutions because they aren’t.

_{Long Term Remedy To Get Rid Of Bad Breath}

I know you already know this, but I need to reenforce it. Regular dental hygiene along with keeping your tongue clean will reduce bad breath.

This is what’s happening in your mouth. We all have natural bacteria in our mouths.  Some good and some bad.  These bad are what causes bad breath and have a fancy name anaerobic bacteria.  They like to hang around in places without oxygen.  These bacteria are the main halitosis causing culprits.  What they don’t like is oxygen, so by keeping your mouth hydrated, it will increase the oxygen available, killing off bad bacteria. They also like to chow down on food scraps, so make sure you don’t have left over food in your mouth.  These two things will cut back on any bad breath problem. Rinse and swish, but be sure to use water.  You’ll wash away bits of food and it will keep your mouth from getting dry.

The anaerobic bacteria really dislike oxygen so regular brushing and flossing will get rid of plaque and the food between your teeth - both great places for bacteria to thrive.

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So be honest here, how many of you clean your tongue?  This is the best method I’ve found to clean your tongue. After your teeth brushing, use a tongue scraper or the side of a spoon and very gently scrape your tongue from back to front a couple of times to remove the coating.  Come on, reach way back.  If you find yourself gagging a little then you are really getting into the spirit of the thing.  The coating  on your tongue keeps oxygen from reaching to the base of the papillae on your tongue, which is where the anaerobic bacteria like to live.  After cleaning your tongue, use a mouthwash that has chloride dioxide in it but has no alcohol. Chlorine dioxide interacts with and gets rid of the volatile sulfur compounds (VSC’s) that cause halitosis.

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Skip the alcohol and reach for water. Anaerobic bacteria love a dry mouth (party time). Morning mouth happens to people who snore and have their mouths open all night (my wife - but don’t tell her).  This dries their mouth out which which develops into…drum roll please…morning breath.  Water will keep you hydrated and your mouth moistened.

Having fresh breath isn’t hard, just maintain a few simple daily habits. Eat carefully, and  keep your tongue and teeth clean. You can do this yourself, the remedy for bad breath is yours.

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Halitosis is one of the most embarrassing conditions that a person can have that is fairly easy to get rid of.  The problem is that often we don’t know we have it and we end up blowing death breath toward anyone within breathing distance.  Sometimes we are pretty sure we’ve got bad breath and can’t get a quick fix.  I know that in a couple cases I thought my breath smelled and searched everywhere for breath mints or gum.  When I didn’t find any, I found myself talking sideways.  You know - not talking directly toward the person you are conversing with or you find a reason to have your hand cupped around your mouth.  Do you think this could hinder a presentation, be a strikeout before even getting to first base, or put a quick stop to casual conversation?  You bet it does.  How do you think I felt later?  Yep, that’s right.  Not so hot.

Many times low self esteem and bad breath become buddies.  It’s as simple as this: no one wants to be around anyone who smells.  Now I believe there is a difference between onion or garlic bad breath and chronic bad breath.  You can blame your onion or garlic breath on a good meal.  Now that is easy, but chronic bad breath, oh my, we have to blame that one on ourselves.

First just realize everyone has bad breath but with good oral hygiene we are able get rid of bad breath or at least to control it.  If you smoke, drink alcohol, don’t drink enough water, don’t brush and floss your teeth at least once a day then you may have a breath problem and need to step up your oral hygiene.  The idea each of these things is that they decrease the anaerobic bacteria in your mouth.  These bacteria love any areas that are oxygen deficient and chow down on bits of food stuff left in your mouth.  They love to hang out on your tongue and on the plaque on your teeth.   Bacteria and dry mouth are like a kid in a candy store.  Alcohol and smoke dry the mouth out, and the bacteria multiply much faster in a dry mouth.  This is why sometimes when you use an alcohol based mouthwash you’ll find that your short term treatment for bad breath ends up creating worse bad breath in the long run.

Question For You:  Kids will tell you right up front if your breath is bad.  Adults often chose to take the "I don’t want to embarrass you" approach and won’t say anything.  What approach do you take with someone with stinky breath?  Confront them, offer mints, or just cut the conversation short and run the other way?

Halitosis Bad Breath the Smell That Keeps on Giving

Have you ever run into someone who has really lousy breath and you couldn’t get away from him?  What did you do about it?  Telling someone they smell bad is harder than pointing out that they have spinach stuck in their teeth.

If you’re breathing you’ve had bad breath.  Okay, here are some bad breaths I can live with. I can live with the onion breath or garlic breath because its a result of what I hope was a good meal that had certain foods in it, and I can live with that.  And it usually is gone by the next day if the person has been flossing and brushing and doing all of those good oral hygiene habits. 

I could also make a case for alcohol breath.  It’s not too bad, but I teach maritime students who on occasion enjoy themselves a little too much in the evening.  Where I draw the line is morning breath combined with alcohol breath.  Usually these guys have been smoking, too.  Ack…..
 
Here is my worst case scenario, and it actually happened just last month. I teach adult merchant mariners at a maritime graduate school and often teach in small work spaces that contain ship equipment such as radars, etc.   One of my students had such bad breath it filled the room.  I heard the other students commenting between themselves about it, and when the guys had to get together in teams of two, he was always the last one to get a partner.  The students knew I had this bad breath website, so they hinted that I needed to tell this guy that he had a problem.  Thanks, guys!  Lucky me. 

I managed to get him alone for a few minutes in a casual setting and I said that some people have a problem with bad breath.  How subtle is that?  He told me that he’d had problems with halitosis before.  So I told this guy about my educational website, Bad Breath Remedy Guide, and that it takes more than just brushing teeth to get rid of bad breath.  I found out that he was using a lot of alcohol based mouthwash, which was adding to the problem.  I told him that alcohol, in mouthwash as well as in social drinks, dries out your mouth, encouraging the growth of the anaerobic bacteria on your tongue that produce that sulfurous odor that we all hate.

I gave him some more helpful tips and suggested he try Therabreath products, which we use ourselves.  I can’t say that I got close enough to him before the end of the week to tell if he had entirely gotten rid of his problem.  But the room smelled better and there was less chatter among the students.  And he wasn’t the last one picked for teams at the end of the week.

So what experiences do you have to tell?  Disastrous dates?  Smelly clients?  A boss you can’t look directly at when he speaks?  Can you top this tale?