Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

I'm gonna test the pH of my saliva and urine. Certain foods increase pH and others decrease pH, but it's not always what you'd expect based on the acidity of the food. Maybe an acidic oral environment encourages bad bacteria for breath. In Christ, Mike

Use your thumbs to clean every surface of the mouth and throat. Smell the thumbs after cleaning each area to see what parts of your mouth are harboring the bacteria. Squeeze the post nasal drip out of the nasal cavity by pressing up and backwards on full surface of palate. Then clean the tongue with...

it's more the sides of the mouth/throat just behind the molar area, and a wider range of area. Turn your left thumb upside down and then rotate its pad outward and use it to clean the left side of mouth/throat/roof of mouth's extreme left side. Don't leave any area uncleaned. Smell your thumbs to se...

The area behind the molars, where the jaw hinges, where the cheecks attach...this has to be cleaned with the thumbs, too. And down the throat. But the extreme sides of the mouth and roof of mouth are major sources for bacterial growth on post nasal drip and/or food residue and/or mucous film. I'm go...

The surface area of the sides of the throat, including down beyond where you can see, is huge. Probably more surface area than the tongue, and the sides of throat are out of the way of the main flow of food and drink when swallowing. Learn to clean the sides with your thumbs turned upside down, left...

My brother's a dentist and said I should try dissolving xylitol crystals (from sugar substitute section of grocery store) in water and rinsing and gargling with it. It helps; it's a sugar alcohol. He said it can shift the balance of good and bad bacteria in the mouth over time. It didn't have lastin...

and back of throat, too

In summary, you need to use thumbs to pull the "web of mucous/post nasal drip/bacteria/food residue" off of the palate, the top and sides of tongue all the way back to epiglottis, and the sides of the throat as far down as possible and up to where the tonsils are or used to be. That's a fu...

...and curl the index finger to sweep mucous and bacteria from tongue all the way back to epiglottis and along sides of tongue all the way back. Left index finger to clean left side of tongue, right index to clean right side.

If you can reach your thumbs down along the sides of your throat far enough, you realize that there are folds that go way down, like the sides of the throat are an accordion. Mucous, bacteria, and food residues builds up and form a plaque coating (you can see a whitish film up as high as where the t...

Lots of people are deficient in magnesium and vitamin d. vitamin d has receptors in the salivary glands, and magnesium is present in saliva. So both of these things could affect breath potentially. Sunlight through glass doesn't produce vitamin d in the skin, because glass filters out UVB. In Christ...

I just found online that there is evidence that vitamin D deficiency (Vitamin D3) may be related to allergic rhinitis, which causes post nasal drip and bad breath. Also, searching on google shows that low salivary flow may be related to vitamin D deficiency as well. I tested 33 percent low in Vitami...

I went to doctor for tiredness and he tested my vitamin d3. The medical world says it should be 30, and my level was 20. I just searched Google for the key words "salivary" "flow" "function" "vitamin d" and it looks like it might be related. A mouth without go...