Contacts: Morning Breath is caused by the waste products of mouth bacteria called Volatile Sulphur Compounds. The bacteria that you leave on your tongue surface when you go to sleep break down available proteins in the mouth such as food debris, nasal mucous and gingival fluid and release waste compounds that smell. These VSC's mainly collect on the tongue surface, particularly to te back of the tongue.
Why does "Morning Breath happen "?-
Your saliva flow slows down or can even stop. This means that there is less buffering of bacteria, less oxygen input, less tongue movement. These are all signals to anaerobic bacteria to begin breeding. During the course of one night's sleep you can manufacture two generations of new bacteria and their waste products, the Volatile Sulphur Compounds.
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Mucus in the nasal areas thicken. When this happens the mucus can attach quite tenaciously to the nasal walls making removal difficult. This nasal mucus is high in protein and is an excellent food source for "Morning Breath" bacteria.
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Your tongue falls to the back of your throat. This action allows easy colonisation of the dorsum (back) of the tongue surface. That is why when you wake in the morning, you not only have a bad or sour taste and breath, but you can also exhibit a coating on your tongue. This coating can be yellow or white depending on its severity and the amount of sulphur contained.
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Before sleep, clean your tongue with a recommended tongue gel. We advise the use of our KForce Breath Guard Oral Cleansing System for this purpose, as it contains our oral gel with proven ingredients specially chosen to enhance proper tongue cleaning. Simply follow our tongue cleaning instructions.
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Anyone with a dry mouth, nasal problem, or uses a CPAP machine, should also use the Fess Tea Tree Oil Nasal Wash before sleep. The spray helps to keep the nasal passages open and clean of mucus.
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Chronic sufferers of bad breath or halitosis, should also use the KForce Breath Guard Starter Kit after completing the tongue and mouth cleaning. KForce K12 is a probiotic of a proven bacteria (Streptococcus salivarius K12) that promotes fresh breath. The use of KForce K12 will help to lessen the numbers of anaerobic bacteria, as can be seen in this agar plate picture
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The top 2 circles are KForce™ probiotic bacteria that produce BLIS (Bacteriocin Like Inhibitory Substance). They inhibit "morning breath" bacterial growth, as shown by the large amount of red space around the probiotic bacteria.
However, the lower 5 circles show normal mouth bacteria with no BLIS activity. They do not inhibit "morning breath" bacteria, as shown by very little red space around the bacteria. Therefore greater bacterial growth occurs during the night which causes the "Morning Breath". |
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All the products talked about can be purchased in our KForce Breath Guard Starter Kit. This is recommended so that you tackle bad breath as well as morning breath. However should you feel you only get morning breath, then purchase the KForce Breath Guard Oral Cleansing Kit, and the Fess Tea Tree Oil Nasal Wash.
