Tag: Candida

The Top 5 Bad Breath Remedies – Discover the Bad Breath Remedies Available

IC asked:

Bad breath stinks! (Excuse the pun.) No matter how attractive you are or how good you are at what you do, bad breath’s a killer. It will kill romance, kill a deal and even kill career opportunities. It can affect every area of your life without you necessarily even knowing it. As a result, it can murder your self esteem. It can become such a chronic problem that many people feel depressed and hopeless about the condition and isolate themselves from others. If it hasn’t become that bad for you, great. don’t let it. However, if it has, don’t give up. There are many solutions to bad breath. At least one of them is bound to work for you.

Bad breath can be the result of something simple like not cleaning your teeth properly (or often enough), smoking, drinking, or eating large amounts of onions or garlic. However, it is often caused by more complex health issues such as infections, candida, digestive disturbances and constipation. Obviously, the first step to healing bad breath is to take care of oral hygiene issues. Brush your teeth regularly, floss and deal with dental cavities. Rinsing with a mouth wash during the day can also be beneficial. Tea tree oil mouth was is recommended.

However, there are a few very important things you also need to do to ensure a sweet smelling breath. Firstly, drink plenty of water. Eight glasses of water a day are recommended. If you have constipation problems (which can cause bad breath), you can drink six to eight glasses of water first thing in the morning, and then wait for an hour before eating or drinking anything else. This usually relieves constipation. Then drink water normally throughout the day. Adding water to your life in this way can quickly eliminate bad breath.

As well as this, eat a healthy diet full of fresh fruit and vegetables and limit fats, sugars and starches. Add regular exercise and your body’s improved functioning can also help your breath to stay healthy.

While you are working on the longer strategy of improving your overall health, the following top five bad breath remedies may alleviate bad breath symptoms:

1. Brush your teeth regularly, floss and also brush your tongue since plaque build up causes bad breath.

2. Cloves are an excellent bad breath remedy. Chew one clove after a meal to reduce bad breath symptoms.

3. Drink fenugreek tea throughout the day as a bad breath remedy.

4. Eat plain yogurt every day to replace good bacteria in the digestive tract. This will help to combat halitosis.

5. Lemon juice in water should be gargled and swallowed a few times a day. This is a long term remedy and should be continued until all evidence of bad breath has disappeared.

Bad breath is embarrassing and can limit your capacity to enjoy life and succeed in it. However, it is not life threatening and it can be treated. Take action now to cure this problem and all areas of your life will improve as a result.

Bad Breath, Halitosis And Home Remedies

Pieternel Van Giersbergen asked:

When the Webmaster of www.breathbadgone.com asked me to write an article on halitosis (bad breath) I was thrilled. Strange, you say, that I should be enthused about the subject of halitosis (bad breath)? As an RN for over 25 years I have smelled many, many kinds of breath/ halitosis, and found that breath is a wonderful diagnostic tool. It can tell me how sick the patient is, and sometimes even what they have. I once worked with a wonderful doctor in the emergency room, who asked me what I smelled in the breath of a particular patient. We both felt we smelled a candida/yeast infection, and sure enough, that’s just what it turned out to be! Bad breath/ halitosis is always a sign that something else is going on, and i’d like to share with you a few interesting cases and general principles in this regard.

I have a friend who is a sensitive person. We were sitting at a table and I asked him how his day was. He said OK, but his breath was bad and his stomach seemed upset. After I asked a few more questions he finally let on he that he’d had an argument with his employer. As he was telling his story he drank the big glass of water I had given him. And as soon as he’d unburdened his feelings and the water was gone… so was his bad breath/ halitosis. The moral of this story… dehydration and emotional issues can both affect our breath.

Many patients who come to the emergency room have bad breath. Simply giving them fluids (water or salt water intravenously) not only helps their primary condition, but the bad breath as well. You don’t have to be in the Sahara desert to get dehydrated. Everyone needs to drink abundant water each day.

Small babies do not have bad breath/ halitosis when they are healthy. Bad breath (halitosis) is a sign that something is wrong and needs attention. Healthy toddlers don’t have bad breath either, so when babies, toddlers or growing children develop bad breath, the following factors usually play a role: dehydration, stress, wrong foods, bad digestion and poor dental health.

Indeed, these are the same top causes of bad breath in adults, followed by digestive problems and infections, for which one should seek medical help. A great remedy for infections of all kinds, whether viral/ bacterial/ parasite and candida, or yeast, is Oil of Oregano. Oil of Oregano is an all-natural remedy that is as strong as pharmaceutical antibiotics, but with no side effects. It is also a great first aid remedy to have on hand.

I could go on and on about the distinct varieties of bad breath smells among those who drink alcohol, who smoke, who have diabetes, internal bleeding, liver diseases, or cancer. But I will spare you the unsavory details. The point is to focus on clean breath, and to heal the underlying causes of bad breath, which will give you better health and more enjoyment of your life. By welcoming bad breath/ halitosis as an opportunity to take preventive measures, you will be doing yourself a world of good.

May your breath be sweet!

Pieternel van Giersbergen

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