Bad Breath Halitosis Forum

It is really relatively straight forward why flying worsens bad breath.

1. It dries out your mouth
2. The constant pressure changes suck in and draw out any volatile sulfur compounds lurking anywhere in your sinuses and tonsils ect..

To help the situation, before flying, flush your tonsils well ...

A few things I have noticed, and some conjecture on my part.

Cola soda doesn’t give you bad bread...you had bad breath, you couldn’t smell it because your body became accustomed to it, when you drank cola it altered the smell just slightly and now you can smell it because it is a slightly different ...

I don’t know about all that Jimi, seems like you are lumping chlorine dioxide in with a lot of other chemicals that have different properties. I mean they use chlorine dioxide to bleach paper white...people seem to be saying it has a whitening effect on teeth from all I’ve read (except what you told ...

Hmmm, my experience with Closys is that it whitens my teeth a bit. I will heed your words, but with a grain of salt. My experience with chlorine bleaching in general is that it can cause yellowing when too much is used, but in the right proportion it creates the whitest of whites, I would think ...

I read through the thread and unless I missed it I didn’t see anyone explained that chlorine actually chemically neutralizes volatile sulfur compounds. Diluted bleach is even used to neutralize mercaptan that odorizes propane or natural gas...diluted because the chemical reaction is such that even ...