Mouth Odor Not Just During Lent

 
Diseases that can cause bad breath include diabetes
Bad breath odor or halitosis is often the case, especially during the fasting month that just passed.
Bad breath does not smell the odor will be more apparent when fasting. Is bad breath should always happen as long as we fast?
Medical specialist in internal medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) Fahrial Ari said, bad breath odor are not always happen to someone who is fasting.
Normally when a dry mouth, because less saliva or due to lack of activity berkunyah will cause bad breath is not fresh.
This is what happens when fasting, where for 14 hours of no food is chewed and no water or fluid intake.
"But, really bad breath caused during our fasting is not a bad breath odor or halitosis is caused by abnormalities in an organ," said Ari, in Jakarta, recently.
Ari added, for bad breath caused by abnormalities something organs can occur due to abnormalities in the oral cavity of the ear nose and throat (ENT), from the respiratory tract or the gastrointestinal tract.
Most of the real cause of bad breath odor comes due to abnormalities in the oral cavity.
The state of the oral cavity with the potential to cause bad breath is the presence of caries or cavities or the rest of the roots of teeth, tartar, inflammation of the gums (gingivitis), or the use of dentures that are not true.
"Given the importance of dental health and also information that the most common cause of bad breath is due to teething problems, the problems surrounding the teeth and oral cavity that is to be treated," he said.
Besides the issue of the oral cavity, said Ari, bad breath odor can be caused by abnormalities of other organs.
Organs that can be the cause of bad breath odor among other abnormalities in ENT, lung and digestive tract organs and liver disorders.
Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract can also cause mouth odor.
Other diseases that can cause bad breath include diabetes with uncontrolled blood sugar.
U par occurring disorders that can cause mouth odor is partly because infections par u either acute or chronic.
Ari says patients with abnormalities in the sinus areas upa sinusitis also cause mouth odor.
Abnormalities that occur in the digestive tract that can cause bad breath include inflammation of the esophagus (GERD), ulcers in the stomach or duodenum and stomach ulcers caused by Helicobacter pylori bacteria.
"Given the possibility of bad breath odor, the odor of bad breath are exaggerated during this fasting to look for why bad breath odor overload occurs," he said.