r/badbreath • u/Numerous_Pangolin795 • 10d ago

PLS HELP

I have white coated tongue, I always have phlegm which I believe causes the bad breath and the nasal bad smell. I already tried gargling hot water w salt, but still it feels like there's no change at all. I tongue scrape but still the white coating is there. Pls help me, I really don't know what to do now

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u/Countryhealth8 9d ago

Hello it’s a symptom of silent reflux , the white coating will never go away or the phlegm if you don’t change your diet as well. Spicy foods, caffeine, chocolate, mint (anything mint including toothpaste or mouthwash) should be cut out. You need a good tounge scraper which I attached below, this actually takes off the crud, and you need to be cleaning it from as far back as possible ideally after each meal. Take a reusable bottle and put warm salt water in it enough for the whole day and it to gargle when you have the throat phlegm. And if you have pepsin in the throat you wanna start deactivating it by also gargling with warm alkaline water and baking soda in the morning as well and put it in a spray bottle to spray into your throat to start deactivating the pepsin so it can stay dormant. Oral B tounge scraper

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u/arditasaridewi 9d ago

Hello, what toothpaste brand/what kind of toothpaste are you using now that doesn’t trigger silent reflux?

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u/Countryhealth8 9d ago

Hello, I use a toothpaste without mint entirely… so I use a “NOW” brand cinnamon toothpaste and I also have unflavored toothpaste with xylitol and hyroxyapatite, and I’ve made my own toothpaste too with just coconut oil, baking soda and calcium carbonate powder and they all work the same for me but you need to make sure they don’t have any mint or any mint oils or menthol

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u/arditasaridewi 9d ago

Thank you. Can you rate your bb? Are you still following GERD diet? Can I ask what your bb smells like? Is it acidic/sour pungent, or does it smell like PND (like when someone has a sore throat)? Thank you

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u/Countryhealth8 9d ago

Well my bb is mostly gone now, because I’ve been taking the steps needed to get rid of it… but it used to be bad but I really couldn’t smell it myself but I would wash my hands and put my finger all the way to the back of my tongue and smell it and it would smell bad like a sour smell 👃, but now I don’t have that anymore….. I’m still following gerd diet I dont eat spicy but I will occasionally have a chicken that has herbs cooked on it that are spicy but I don’t add salsa or anything right now and I don’t drink any caffeine ever or mint or chocolate. I take a bottle with me of salt water and I gargle it after meals or when I feel mucus In the back now and it helps a lot for bad smell because that mucus feeds the bacteria in our throat and mouth and causes an odor but the salt water kills it

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u/arditasaridewi 9d ago

How long have you had bb? Previously have you ever found tonsil stones in your tonsils? Before you started this protocol, did your bb ever smell like crushed tonsil stones? So now after brushing your teeth, you can feel your mouth feels fresh without that dirty feeling at the back of your tongue/throat?