Too Much Garlic: Combat Bad Breath

What you need:

• optional:
• milk
• Chlorophyll globules (available in every better-stocked pharmacy)
• parsley
• cardamom
• bread
• chocolate
• Green tea
• Mint tea
• Coffee granules
• lemon
• toothpaste

Bad breath from garlic - here's what you can do about it

• Chewing small chlorophyll globules, which you can buy in any well-stocked pharmacy, is particularly effective (although not yet very well known) against bad breath caused by the consumption of garlic. The beads are inexpensive and also have a long shelf life.
• It can also be helpful to drink a large glass of milk, which will reduce bad breath. Some believe that the temperature of the milk plays a role here: Warm milk is supposed to fight bad breath better.
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• Some other foods can also help dispel the garlic odor. Particularly known are chewing on a piece of bread or enjoying dark chocolate.
• Parsley can also combat the annoying aroma. You should therefore chew on fresh parsley after your garlic-seasoned meal. It's easy in restaurants because a piece of parsley is usually on your plate as a decoration. So you can face the garlic bad breath right after you eat it.
• It is also helpful to chew on fresh cardamom. Here, however, the intense taste is not for everyone.


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• So that all these measures are not even necessary, you can also make sure that the seedling is in the cooking while cooking To remove the middle of the peeled garlic cloves, because it is the one that contains the most fragrances and therefore for the bad breath cares.
• You can also soak the peeled garlic in oil, as this absorbs a large part of the aromas.

• Try greens tea or mint tea. They have a cleaning effect on the oral cavity and teeth. Besides, they are also very healthy for you body.

• Lemon has a soothing effect on the smell of garlic. Either just eat a piece of the fruit or squeeze some lemon juice into the glass where there is already a peppermint leaf or parsley.

• If you have to move quickly and you have nothing else to hand, candies or chewing gum can also help you for a short time. However, these only briefly cover the smell and do not take it away. However, in order to be able to face the postman without a guilty conscience, it is a good solution.
• There are also essential oils in coffee beans that can bind the odor. You can also chew 2-3 whole coffee beans, for example.
• Pouring a few drops of tea tree oil into a glass of water and then gargling it a few times is also a quick remedy for the bad breath. However, you should make sure that the tea tree oil is not swallowed. The stomach and intestines could react very nervously to this!

• Please brush your teeth in any case! Breath becomes fresher and leftover food disappears between the teeth. It is important that the tongue to clean properly to get rid of the annoying smell.

Where does the bad breath come from?

In order to successfully eliminate the garlic odor, one should first know that the odor of garlic is not even from the mouth comes from the stomach. This also explains why brushing your teeth often does not help at all or only for a short time.

• When the garlic breaks down in the stomach, sulfur is released. This is then exhaled through the sweat glands, but also through the esophagus, which is why the mouth also stinks.
• In cultures where a lot of garlic is eaten, this is not the case, the body no longer steams the essential oils of the garlic through the skin but like everything else through the kidneys.

Without remedy, the garlic aroma would stay in the oral cavity for at least two to three days. This fact can create a serious problem in the communication with other people. You should therefore solve the problem as soon as possible and do something about garlic bad breath.

Other authors: Aleksandra Blal, Marie Reis