Does brushing your teeth with hot water cause bad breath?

When we brush our teeth, it is best to use warm water, because warm water is very effective in removing residual food in the gaps between teeth. Do not use too cold water to brush your teeth, because this will cause adverse stimulation and effects on the teeth. Brushing your teeth with warm water will not cause bad breath. The main causes of bad breath are oral hygiene, stomach fire, or some diseases.

How to treat bad breath

The first is to keep breathing

Patients should clear stomach fire, ensure sleep, and combine work and rest. If people with excessive stomach fire want to solve the problem of bad breath, they need to eat a light diet and avoid eating raw, cold, irritating, indigestible and greasy foods. In addition, you should chew slowly when eating, drink plenty of water, and eat more crude fiber fruits and vegetables such as celery, apples, and citrus fruits.

The second is to do a good job of oral hygiene

A large part of bad breath is caused by oral diseases, such as gingivitis, periodontitis, bleeding gums, alveolar pus discharge, large amounts of calculus or plaque accumulation. Food residue in the mouth and between teeth can produce an unpleasant odor after being decomposed and fermented by anaerobic bacteria. This is why bad breath is usually more severe after waking up. For example, rinse your mouth after meals, brush your teeth carefully more than twice a day, have regular oral examinations and teeth cleanings, and detect and treat dental diseases as early as possible. In addition, people with severe bad breath should not forget to brush their tongue when brushing their teeth, because bacteria and food debris may be hidden under many small particles on the tongue, causing bad breath.

The third is to keep the intestines and kidneys moisturized

If in addition to bad breath, there are also symptoms such as irritability and insomnia, or soreness of the waist and knees, dry mouth and throat, it may be related to liver and kidney yin deficiency. You can consult a doctor and take sour jujube kernel soup or Zhibai Dihuang pills to nourish yin and reduce fire, moisten dryness and promote salivation. Because saliva contains natural antibacterial substances, oral moisturizing can effectively inhibit bacterial growth.

The fourth is to treat spleen and stomach weakness in time

If you have bad breath due to weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, food stagnation in the stomach and intestines, accompanied by symptoms such as abdominal distension and pain, nausea, heartburn, loose stools, or if you suffer from chronic gastritis or gastric ulcer, the bad breath is usually a strange sour and rotten smell after food fermentation. In this case, you can take Baohe Pills and Jianwei Xiaoshi Tablets.