Many people have the experience that when they wake up in the morning, they feel bitter in their mouth and can't eat anything. It's totally bitter. Do you know what causes this? From the medical point of view, bitter mouth is a kind of abnormal taste, not only oral problems, but also other physical diseases, the reasons are complex and diverse. This kind of seemingly subtle physical discomfort may also lurk in big trouble. So we must not ignore this problem.
Why can the mouth be bitter?
1. Poor oral hygiene
Problems in oral health may not only cause bleeding, periodontitis and pulpitis, but also unpleasant experiences such as bad breath and bitter mouth. Therefore, it is necessary to brush your teeth in the morning and evening every day if you really brush your teeth well.
2. Bad habits
There are many causes of stomachache. Some mental workers, due to their high work pressure, improper diet, lack of sleep, long-term smoking, lack of exercise and other characteristics, have a sluggish gastrointestinal function. The food they eat stays in the gastrointestinal tract for a long time, which is very easy to produce damp heat, and will also cause stomachache.
3. Vitamin or trace element deficiency
Lack of vitamin B12 or zinc can cause mouth pain. Vitamin B12 is the only vitamin that can be absorbed only with the help of intestinal secretions. Once lacking, it is easy to cause inflammation and bleeding of mucous membrane of tongue, mouth and digestive tract. Nausea, anorexia and anemia are all symptoms. However, zinc deficiency is easy to cause oral ulcer, and the damaged wound is not easy to heal, and it is partial to eat and anorexia.
4. Nerve damage
The feeling of the tongue needs to be transmitted to the brain through nerves so that we can know what the taste is. If head injury, nerve or brain injury, or even dementia, can lead to a sense of taste disorder.
5. Other physical diseases
Diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, some cancers, etc., may cause abnormal taste in the mouth, or taste problems. For example, people with diabetes often have a bad apple taste in their mouth.
6. Side effects of drugs
Many drugs can cause bitter taste in the mouth. For example, the common antihypertensive drug captopril, the treatment of tuberculosis drug rifampicin equality.
How to prevent bitter mouth?
It seems like a small thing to have a bitter mouth, but in fact, it's very particular. Now that we know the reason, we suggest that we do these things in our lives:
1. Pay attention to oral health, learn the correct method of brushing teeth, and wash teeth regularly. (PS: for the specific method of correct brushing, please refer to the series of articles on health brocade bag - have you brushed your teeth correctly in recent years?) it's really bad breath and bitter mouth. It's recommended to see the dentist to treat oral diseases.
2. For people with high pressure, we should try our best to make the work and rest rules and food structure reasonable, and stop smoking and drinking. The benefits of quitting smoking are definitely more than breath freshness. Quitting smoking also reduces the risk of multiple cancers, such as lung cancer and oral cancer.
3. Supplement appropriate amount of vitamins and microelements, eat more coarse grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and milk in daily life, balance nutrition, and meet the needs of vitamins and microelements in most cases. It's not enough. We can use compound nutrient tablets to supplement it. But we need to pay attention to the fact that too much is not enough. It's easy to have problems when we supplement too many trace elements.
4. Proper exercise, walking, jogging, Taijiquan, swimming and other ways can help to promote the normal operation of digestive function, especially for mental workers. Exercise should be strengthened and regular.
5. Finally, people with chronic diseases should actively control and treat their stomachache according to the causes under the guidance of doctors.