Mouthwashes Really Take Coronavirus Bad Breath Away?......part 35

If only there was mouthwash for the brain. Brain wash. They could make a fortune on that stuff.

-Add half a teaspoon of table salt to a cup of warm water. Stir until it dissolves completely.

-Take a big sip of the salt and hold it in your mouth.

-Tilt your head back and gargle the salt water in your throat for about 30 seconds and then spit it out.

-Repeat the same process until you have finished the whole cup.

Listerine or chlorine dioxide helps.

The smell of rot is what we are talking about. That unmistakable smell of putrefaction associated with rotten eggs, decomposing abscesses, periodontal diseases, sinus and lung infections, rotting undigested fecal matter, or spoiled fish. Putrefaction is the rotten egg smell of scavenging bacteria digesting and decomposing structural sulfur-bonds in proteins.

 An inflammatory crisis has occurred. Significant numbers of immune cells are dying.........

   Sometimes the source of odor is a thick coating on top of the tongue. Sugar disables protein-digesting enzymes produced by the pancreas and puts our patrols of cleansing gobbler white blood cells to sleep.........

    When one has bad breath or smelly tongue or gums, the brain is frying and thought processing is fuzzy. Bad breath is immune and metabolic crisis.......

When the mouth is open while we sleep, saliva (which has antiseptic properties)dries up and bacteria proliferate in the mouth and throat. This can lead to dry mouth in the morning, bad breath, periodontal diseases and even eczema etc.

Not surprisingly, when the mouth is open, the tongue falls back and cause obstruction of the airway, leading to snoring, sleep apnea. With oxygen intake decreased, heart problems, hormonal imbalances and other degenerative disease can be the result.

I dare say that the containers for all these chlorite, chloride, or chlorhexidine mouthwashes include a poison warnings. Anyone serious about this should study the effects on the thyroid which will uptake chlorine in place of iodine. And there's no need to swallow considering that oral mucosa absorption is 90%--much better than pill (10%).

Is it possible to have a natural mouthwash that's powerful enough to beat flossing? At least three studies indicate exactly that...

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Thank you …. Recent research by Listerine's parent company came to a surprising conclusion: essential oil enhanced mouthwash was "at least as good" and dental floss for the treating gingivitis disease.

Another study published in the American Journal of Dentistry concluded, "adjunctive use of an EO containing mouth rinse provides a clinically significant and meaningful additional benefit in reducing plaque and gingivitis.

More research showed that to be effective against periodontal disease, an oral antiseptic must be active against a wide array of gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Data show that "essential oil and chlorhexidine mouthwashes have the broadest antimicrobial effects."

While the chemical chlorhexidine is slightly more effective than essential oils, it comes with the unpleasant side effects of staining teeth and altering taste perception for up to several hours after rinsing.

Now...which seems more natural: rinsing or methodically sticking fish line between each and every tooth? 

Mouthwash may soon become another possible weapon against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, new research says.

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Conducted by a team of scientists and clinicians from the Cardiff University School of Medicine, the study, published in the Function journal, looked into the possibility that the active ingredients that give commercially available mouthwashes their potent antimicrobial properties could also be effective against SARS- COVID-19.CoV-2.

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The research team decided to investigate mouthwashes since these have been proven effective against the bacteria that trigger specific oral health issues.

According to an earlier study, mouthwashes — also known as oral rinses — destroy bacteria by disrupting and dissolving the lipid membrane or shell that surrounds them.

Viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, possess a similar lipid shell.

The researchers, led by Valerie O’Donnell, argued that gargling with mouthwash could possibly neutralize viruses and other pathogens present in the throat , thus preventing them from spreading through coughing.

“In test-tube experiments and limited clinical studies, some mouthwashes contain enough of known virucidal ingredients to effectively target lipids in similar viruses,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell added, however, that because there is still no evidence if existing mouthwash formulations would work against the lipid shell of SARS-COV-2, clinical trials must be done in order to test their effectiveness .

“Our review of the literature suggests research is needed as a matter of urgency to determine its potential for use against this new virus,” O’Donnell said.

According to the researchers, the ingredients of commercially available dental mouthwashes, such as chlorhexidine, cetylpyridinium chloride, hydrogen peroxide and povidone-iodine, all have the potential to prevent infection, adding that several of them “deserve clinical evaluation.”

One of the ingredients, ethanol has been shown to kill at least two other viruses in the coronavirus family, the researchers said, noting that previous data published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases offers evidence that ethanol kills viruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

As per the researchers, this indicates that relatively diluted ethanol may be highly effective against enveloped viruses.

In addition, the researchers pointed to essential oils as being particularly effective against pathogens, noting that an ethanol solution containing both eucalyptus oil and thymol — a compound extracted from the thyme plant — possessed significant antiviral properties toward the herpes simplex virus.

“A 30-second rinse reduced infectious virions of herpes simplex types I and II to effectively zero,” the researchers said, citing a previous study published in Phytotherapy Research.

According to the researchers, these studies provide proof-of-concept that mouthwashes containing essential oils with 21 to 27 percent ethanol can inactivate enveloped viruses, both in the lab and in humans, and damage the lipid surrounding them.

“Ethanol in combination with essential oils may provide a more effective formulation,” the researchers said, adding that these types of mouthwash may be effective against SARS-CoV-2, although no studies have been conducted on the matter.

The researchers, however, made no mention of other natural treatment such as colloidal silver, another proven antimicrobial agent, in their study.

“We highlight that already published research on other enveloped viruses, including [other strains of] coronaviruses, directly supports the idea that further research is needed on whether oral rinsing could be considered as a potential way to reduce transmission of [the coronavirus],” the research team wrote in their study.

The team stressed, however, that several other factors, such as safety and length of exposure to the antimicrobial agents, also need to be investigated.

The researchers further noted that the public should continue adhering to official guidance on how to ward off potential COVID-19 infections while they wait for the clinical studies to be conducted.

“People should continue to follow the preventive measures issued by the UK government, including washing hands frequently and maintaining social distance,” O’Donnell said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) previously debunked theories that mouthwash can stave off potential COVID-19 infections.