Halitosis or Bad Breath May Be Caused
By Common Cold

Halitosis, or bad breath as it is commonly known, begins as a simple nuisance:  morning breath.  We all have at least a mild case of morning breath—just not always in the a.m. depending on your sleep schedule.  The cause of bad breath after we awaken from sleep is due a dry mouth.  The body slows the salivation rate while we slumber thus allowing the anaerobic bacteria population to swell and produce more VSC’s, or Volatile Sulfur Compounds.  It is these sulfur compounds that we all smell when someone with bad breath exhales. 

Anaerobic bacteria are responsible for nearly 90% of all problems with bad breath or halitosis.  There are nearly two dozen types of anaerobic bacteria that have been linked to halitosis and all of them need to eat—and they are not particularly fussy when it comes to leftover food particles from our previous meals.  However, they do tend to prefer proteins most because they reproduce at a faster rate when consuming foods that are high in these beneficial molecules, such as:

• Poultry
• Red meat
• Milk
• Eggs
• Fish or seafood

Like any organic being, bacteria not only need to consume food—they also need to dispose of waste.  In the case of anaerobic bacteria, this waste comes in the form of the VSC’s mentioned earlier.  Normally, our saliva helps get rid of bad breath by controlling the anaerobic bacteria population, washing away food particles, and removing the VSC’s.  So, morning breath occurs because the bacteria are not properly controlled by normal salivation.  However, barring any other factors, bad breath in the morning can be eliminated by simple oral hygiene and then controlled for the rest of the day with saliva.

Sometimes, however, medical problems like upper respiratory infections can also cause halitosis and bad breath.  In many cases, these conditions will stimulate the flow of postnasal drip onto the back of the tongue where oral bacteria like to gather due to the abundance of food particles found there.  The bacteria population grows even faster because of this postnasal drip as they feed off the discharge.

Also, things like the common cold can give rise to increased bad breath symptoms simply because our noses are clogged and we are forced to breathe through the mouth.  Depending on the duration of the cold and the extent of the clogging in the nasal passage, this will cause bad breath because the mouth will become dry and lose salivation.  Even the medicine we take for colds and other respiratory disorders can create a bad breath problem because antihistamines are designed to cause dehydration in the sinuses—and thus causing dry mouth.

Knowing how to get rid of bad breath problems simply boils down to understanding their cause.  In most cases, anaerobic bacteria are the cause and saliva is the cure for halitosis and bad breath.

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