12 kinds of folk remedies to keep you away from bad breath. Netizens have proven that they are effective.

The so-called bad breath (also called "bad breath") is the unpleasant breath that comes from the mouth, which annoys others and embarrasses yourself. Don’t underestimate this minor problem of bad breath. It will make people (especially young people) afraid to interact with others at close range, thus causing inferiority complex, affecting normal interpersonal and emotional communication, and causing great distress. Some people have severe bad breath and can smell their own bad breath; while some people only know they have bad breath through the reactions of others. How to test your breath yourself: Put your left and right palms together and make them into a closed bowl shape, covering your mouth and nose. Then exhale into your palms and then inhale through your nose. You can smell how your mouth smells.

1. Oral diseases: People with poor oral hygiene, dental caries, gingivitis, periodontitis, oral mucositis, tooth decay, periodontal disease and other oral diseases are prone to the growth of bacteria in their mouths, especially anaerobic bacteria, which decompose to produce sulfides and cause bad breath.

2. Gastrointestinal diseases such as peptic ulcer, chronic gastritis, functional dyspepsia, etc. may be accompanied by bad breath. Recently, we have also found that people infected with Helicobacter pylori, which causes many gastric diseases, have a significantly higher incidence of bad breath than those who are not infected. After the eradication of Helicobacter pylori, the symptoms of bad breath are significantly alleviated. The reason may be that Helicobacter pylori infection directly produces sulfides, causing bad breath.

3. Smoking, drinking, and coffee People who smoke, drink, drink coffee, and often eat spicy foods such as onions, garlic, and leeks, or are addicted to stinky foods such as stinky tofu and stinky eggs, are also prone to bad breath.

4. Acute and chronic rhinitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, especially atrophic rhinitis with obvious odor;

5. Dieting to lose weight, or being unable to eat due to illness, or the reduced salivary gland function of the elderly, or endocrine disorders in women during menstruation, which leads to reduced saliva secretion and is conducive to the growth of anaerobic bacteria, thus causing bad breath. Or like a binge eater.

6. Bad breath in teenage girls: Some girls in puberty have ovarian insufficiency and low sex hormone levels. The resistance of oral tissue decreases, making it easy to be infected by bacteria and produce bad breath.

7. Drugs that can reduce saliva secretion, such as certain sedatives, antihypertensive drugs, atropine-type drugs, diuretics, and traditional Chinese medicines with warming and tonic effects. Some people breathe with their mouths open while sleeping for a long time, which leads to dry mouth and bad breath.

8. Patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, hepatic coma, and some respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, bronchiectasis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, lung cysts, etc. may also cause bad breath.

9. Long-term constipation can cause harmful substances produced in the body to fail to be excreted in time and be absorbed into the blood, causing bad breath, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, irritability and other symptoms of self-poisoning.

10. Dinner is too "heavy", eating too much or eating too much meat, greasy food or too much spicy seasoning, too much strong flavor and not enough light food, dinner is too close to sleep, too much food is left in the stomach when sleeping, etc.

11. Excessive psychological pressure, neurasthenia, and frequent mental tension cause the body's parasympathetic nerves to be in an excited state, and reflexively reduce the secretion of the digestive glands, especially the salivary glands, leading to dry mouth, which is conducive to the growth of anaerobic bacteria and produces bad breath.

12. There are also some people who cannot find an obvious cause, but they often have a seborrhea and hyperhidrosis constitution, and their bodies are generally strong.