How to Cure Medicine Breath

Bad breath may be caused by certain foods such as onions or garlic, sinus infections, tooth or gum infections and dry mouth. Medications frequently cause bad breath, or medicine breath. Certain medications can cause your mouth to become dry and sticky. When your mouth becomes dry, saliva cannot wash away odor causing bacteria, therefore, you get halitosis, or medicine breath. Some medications have strong odors to them and when they metabolize, your breath may take on their odor. You need to treat your medicine breath and discover the cause because you may risk permanent damage to your teeth and gums. There are steps you can take to cure medicine breath.

Things You'll Need

• Dental examination
• Water
• Fennel seeds
• Cloves
• Peppermint oil

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Instructions

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  See your dentist. Your dentist will need to discover what is causing your bad breath. He will determine if your halitosis is related to your medications. Give your dentist a detailed list of medicines you are taking. He will provide you with a treatment plan to relieve your medicine breath.

• 2

  Drink lots of water. Your medicines may cause dry mouth, which will give you medicine breath. Bacteria will flourish and cause odors when your mouth is too dry. Drinking fluids will promote saliva production which will wash away odor producing bacteria.

• 3

  Chew fennel seeds. Fennel seeds taste like licorice and are commonly seen in Italian sausage. Chew a few fennel seeds to freshen your breath and stimulate saliva to minimize your medicine breath. Get your fennel seeds in the spice department of your grocery store.

• 4

  Eat cloves. Eating cloves is effective in treating medicine breath. Certain medications can produce strong and unusual odors. Cloves will quell those odors and freshen your mouth.

• 5

  Use peppermint oil. Add two drops of peppermint oil on your tongue to relieve medicine breath. The intensity of the flavor will activate your salivary glands to relieve your dry mouth and medicine breath. Certain medications may cause mouth bitterness and unpleasant odors. Peppermint oil will neutralize the bitterness and eliminate odors.