Is Your Bad Breath Caused By Emotions ?

“Dear doctor, my younger daughter sometimes has serious bad breath. She is a high strung girl and this seems to be related in some way to her bad breath. Her bad breath can be fine, and one day she told us that on Wednesday she have a date, but by Wednesday, her bad breath has become particularly bad.  It seems that whenever she was nervous, her bad breath will worse. The doctor said that it has a relationship with the stomach, a tightening of the muscles that disturbs digestion. And she often breath through mouth, which makes her bad breath worse. I hope you can give her some suggestions, any suggestions you can offer would be appreciated.”  This is a letter from the parents of a bed breath patient, in real life there are also many such problems.

Indeed, emotions such as tension can easily lead to bad breath, what is the reason ? As we have mationed in previous post that the culprit of bad breath  is the anaerobic bacteria of the mouth and saliva can effectively inhibit the anaerobic bacteria in the mouth. that is, saliva can effectively reduce bad breath. When people are nervous, in excited mood, the mouth is easy to become dry and saliva reduced, anaerobic bacteria will accelerate breeding, then bad breath worse.

Some parents has been hesitating whether to tell their children after they finding the fact that their children’s bad breath are related to their emotions. In fact, it is better to tell they the truth, by doing so, at least they are knowing that their bad breath are not thephysical problems. They may relax a little, which do help to remove their bad breath.

At the same time, on the emotional cause of bad breath problems, has long been described in Chinese medicine. Such as the Qing Dynasty, “Origin of miscellaneous diseases candle Cho said in a” virtual fire Yu heat, Yun between the stomach in the chest while bad breath, or Auntie Wei Hou person has bad breath, bad breath or lung as Huozhuo. This is one of the “Yu, Auntie” refer to people’s emotions.

In the psychological clinic, there is a common phenomenon. The psychiatrist found that many of their psychological patients have a special bad breath. After a period of treatment, when the patient’s psychological problems have improved, improved mood,  their bad breath also will be significantly reduced or disappeared. In fact, modern medicine has long been classified as a psychosomatic illness. Bad breath are considered to be psychological factors, especially negative emotions lead to bad breath.

Therefore, in daily life, in addition to pay attention to meal and bedtime brushing, mouthwash, maintain oral health, we also have to pay importance attentions to the problem that bad breath caused by emotions.  Efforts to improve the emotional, adjust the mental to a good condition.



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