Secondary Bad Breath

Causes of secondary bad breath:

  • Oral Diseases
  • Oral diseases such as overflow alveolar abscess, dental caries, gingivitis, pulpitis, purulent tonsillitis and salivary gland inflammation, can cause corruption bad breath.

  • Oral adjacent organs diseases
  • Such as the nasopharynx and nasal cavity disease suppurative maxillary sinusitis, atrophic rhinitis, also can cause bad breath.

  • Gastrointestinal diseases
  • Such as chronic gastritis, duodenal ulcer mouth frequently occurs in patients with acid smell, pyloric obstruction, patients with advanced gastric cancer often appear rotten duck eggs taste bad breath, severe constipation and intestinal obstruction patients often appear fecal odor bad breath.

  • Respiratory diseases
  • Rot acid bad breath often appear in patients with lung abscess, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, bronchiectasis hemoptysis are often seen blood smell bad breath smell, In patients with advanced lung cancer often have rotten stench in the mouth and breath.

  • Other
  • Diabetic patients, there may be rotten apple taste. Uremic patients have mouth and breath in the ammonia smell. Hepatic coma may occur liver stink. Hemophilia can occur in patients with bloody foul mouth.

Prevention and treatment of secondary bad breath

Secondary bad breath more from body inside, this time alone with the above-mentioned measures is often difficult to bear fruit, and therefore the treatment for primary disease, such as the timely treatment of dental caries, gingivitis, gastritis, lung abscess, and diabetes are very neccessary.

Once the primary disease cured, bad breath can be removed. It is worth mentioning that, many infectious diseases (such as excess alveolar abscess, dental caries, maxillary sinusitis, lung abscess, etc.) which easy to cause bad breath have close relation with anaerobic bacteria and purulent bacterial co-infection. At the same time, helicobacter pylori infection are closely related with a variety of digestive diseases(such as chronic gastritis, duodenal ulcer, dyspepsia, gastric cancer, etc.) which also easily cause bad breath.



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