Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

is it safe to use hydrogen peroxide for removing type 1 halitosis on a regular basis? Wont it worsen the breath (bad bacteria overgrowth)?


Its safety depends on its concentration and how long time used. Personally I dont prefer to advise anyone for regularly use hydrogen peroxide despite it ...

aydinmur wrote:

aydinmur wrote:It really takes bad odor in mouth if any.

Here, my mean, hydrogen peroxide removes type 1 halitosis if any.

Murat, thank you. But is it safe to use hydrogen peroxide for removing type 1 halitosis on a regular basis? Wont it worsen the breath (bad bacteria overgrowth)?

Hi. I started to rinse and gargle with approx. 1.5% hydrogen peroxide solution along with baking soda tongue brushing a few months ago and it works great. But i haven’t done it often yet - usually once or sometimes twice a week, when expecting to speak with people a lot at a close distance (weekends ...

Therefore, whenever you eat or drink anything sweet, you must brush your teeth immediately afterwards or at least rinse your mouth with plain water to neutralize the acid.

Please never do this.

It has been proven that tooth enamel is weakened after eating foods which contain acids or sugars and ...

Ofc not...majority of BB comes from mouth (around 90%), that means teeth, gums and the most common source is tongue.

Other sources are:
- upper respiratory tract
- stomach
- lungs
and certain diseases as diabetes, cancer and various metabolic diseases.

The prevalent cause of BB is definitely ...

"...frantic reactions from people..."

Yes, halimeter measure certain sulfur compounds which is reliable method for most of the people, but some here on the forum wrote they have BB (getting reactions from others) but halimeter shows they are ok (just to make this clear).

Yea this clip is the one i was writing about :D and it should be viewable outside of UK as im living quite far from there.

Ok, halitosis is noticeable malodor as we all know, but the problem is what is considered noticeable - because as you wrote most of the people produce *some* amount and kind of ...

"Geographic tongue simply means a tongue that has lots of grooves and fissures in it. These grooves and fissures make an excellent breeding ground for the anaerobic bacteria that cause bad breath and a white tongue."

This is more important factor than actual size of the tongue i think

I watched one episode of British "Embarrassing Illnesses" tv series where some dentist performed organoleptic evaluation on BB sufferer: doctor asked her to count from 1 to 10 while he had his head very close to her mouth and inhaled her breath. Then it was repeated with the nurse and subsequently ...

I had a teacher at elementary school whose breath was extremely offensive...it was very severe case of halitosis as his BB filled up the whole room shortly after he started to speak. Speaking face to face with him was a very traumatic experience :D

It was smelling like blasts from rotten grave and ...