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Halitosis
Halitosis may due to waste food gap in the teeth and gum problems
TEMPORARY mouth or bad breath really is embarrassing. However, it sure is a shame if they did not perceive the experience or leave without any action.
This problem is also known as halitosis is not just involve individuals but also can cause a person away. What causes this problem?
Factor is mainly due to food waste the remaining gap in the teeth. Wastes that are not cleaned, will eventually cause decay and bad breath. Gum problems may also cause halitosis.
Hence, ensuring the mouth clean is our responsibility at all times. Mouth not only help you chew food functions, but at the same time become home to hundreds of types of bacteria and may utaan. Balance between the types of bacteria was always ensure that fresh mouth.
Please note, cause halitosis is not the same for each person. Examination with the dentist will ensure that the actual cause of your problem.
INFO: Signs of your mouth is smelling :
* You often feel there is less odor or taste wine in the mouth
* Friend or around the mouth or close the eyes move when you talk
* There are friends that fiscal or candy to stretch your
* There calitan effects or yellow or white on your tongue.
There are several preventive measures that can be taken to overcome this problem. Often, polish teeth at least twice a day and floss your teeth every day act also helps eliminate mouth odor.
Other steps can be taken to reduce mouth odor problems:
1) Drink tea
Study finds chemicals in green tea and black tea known as ‘Polyphenols’ help stop the growth of bacteria responsible for halitosis problem.
2) Drink plenty of water
Drink plenty of water helps your mouth stay moist. In Chinese medical beliefs, halitosis due to excessive heat in the stomach. Water, soup or fruit such as cucumber help balance the body. While drinks such as coffee, milk, fried foods or spicy foods believed to only increase the problem. What kind of drink, especially water to help remove small food particles and excess mucus from the mouth. It also helps prevent dry mouth.
3) Use of herbal
Besides chewing chewing gum, chewing practices such as herbal mint, basil and rosemary can help reduce mouth odor.
4) Learn to control stress
Some people, especially young men have a regime of good oral hygiene, but many may not realize the pressure to increase production of mouth odor.
5) Stop smoking
Smoking not only make your mouth smell but also dry mouth.
Disease,Terminology and Transmission of disease
Disease
A disease or medical problem is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and signs.It may be caused by external factors, such as invading organisms, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases.
In human beings, “disease” is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes extreme pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, and/or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories.
Terminology
In many cases, the terms disease, disorder, morbidity and illness are used interchangeably.In some situations, specific terms are considered preferable.
Infection
This term broadly refers to any abnormal condition that impairs normal function. Commonly, this term is used to refer specifically to infectious diseases, which are clinically evident diseases that result from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. An infection that does not produce clinically evident impairment of normal functioning is not considered a disease. Non-infectious diseases are all other diseases, including most forms of cancer, heart disease, and genetic disease.
Illness
Illness and sickness are generally used as synonyms for disease.However, this term is occasionally used to refer specifically to the patient’s personal experience of his or her disease.In this model, it is possible for a person to be diseased without being ill, (to have an objectively definable, but asymptomatic, medical condition), and to be ill without being diseased (such as when a person perceives a normal experience as a medical condition, or medicalizes a non-disease situation in his or her life). Illness is often not due to infection but a collection of evolved responses, sickness behavior, by the body aids the clearing of infection. Such aspects of illness can include lethargy, depression, anorexia, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, and inability to concentrate.
Disorder
In medicine, a disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.Medical disorders can be categorized into mental disorders, physical disorders, genetic disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders, and functional disorders.
The term disorder is often considered more value-neutral and less stigmatizing than the terms disease or illness, and therefore is preferred terminology in some circumstances. In mental health, the term mental disorder is used as a way of acknowledging the complex interaction of biological, social, and psychological factors in psychiatric conditions. However, the term disorder is also used in many other areas of medicine, primarily to identify physical disorders that are not caused by infectious organisms, such as organic brain syndrome.
Medical condition
A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders, but also includes normal situations, such as pregnancy, that might benefit from medical assistance or have implications for medical treatments. As it is more value-neutral than terms like disease, it is sometimes preferred by people with these conditions. On the other hand, by emphasizing the medical nature of the condition, this term is sometimes rejected, such as by proponents of the autism rights movement. The term medical condition is used as a synonym for medical state, where it describes a patient’s current state, as seen from a medical standpoint. This usage is seen in statements that describe a patient as being “in critical condition”, for example.
Morbidity
Morbidity (from Latin morbidus: sick, unhealthy) refers to a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause.The term may be used to refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient. Among severely ill patients, the level of morbidity is often measured by ICU scoring systems.
Comorbidity is the simultaneous presence of two medical conditions, such as a person with schizophrenia and substance abuse.
In epidemiology and actuarial science, the term morbidity rate can refer to either the incidence rate, or the prevalence of a disease or medical condition. This measure of sickness is contrasted with the mortality rate of a condition, which is the proportion of people dying during a given time interval.
Transmission of disease
Some diseases such as influenza are contagious and infectious. The micro-organisms that cause these diseases are known as pathogens and include varieties of bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi. Infectious diseases can be transmitted by as, by hand to mouth contact with infectious material on surfaces, by bites of insects or other carriers of the disease, and from contaminated water or food (often via faecal contamination), etc. In addition, there are sexually transmitted diseases. In some cases, micro-organisms that are not readily spread from person to person play a role, while other diseases can be prevented or ameliorated with appropriate nutrition or other lifestyle changes. Some diseases such as cancer, heart disease and mental disorders are , in most cases, not considered to be caused by infection , although there are important exceptions. Many diseases (including some cancers, heart disease and mental disorders) have a partially or completely genetic basis and may thus be transmitted from one generation to another.