Why does wearing a mask for a long time cause a peculiar smell inside the mask? Is it bad breath?

For epidemic prevention and control work, we still can't relax, go out every day, you have to insist on wearing a mask. Over time, our masks have been worn for more than a year. I don't know if you feel this way, no matter which mask, the surgical mask is still a 3 meter **, long-term wear and tear will cause a big smell of the mask, this smell is always tempting to put the mask to take place.

How do these smells come about?

1. Bad breath. BreathingDuring breathing, bad breath refers to the unpleasant smell of the mouth. The smell is a bad breath and you might be surprised!

Maybe you're thinking, why don't you smell this when you're not wearing a mask? This is because when there is no mask, the exhaled air is diluted by the outside air and there is no barrier, so I can't smell my mouth.

There are two respiratory majors, two limbic programs and gastrointestinal disorders. Bad breath is a common oral symptom that is usually caused by the human psyche, lack of sleep, hunger, due to decreased saliva production. Poor breathing at this time is mainly due to interference with oral hygiene and can be counted as physiological manifestations.

Another type of margin is caused by oral diseases, such as teeth, periodontitis, etc., and belongs to pathological halitosis.

There are a variety of microorganisms, including periodontal disease pathogens, saliva, Candida and some other anaerobic bacteria and other anaerobic bacteria. Oral diseases lead to a rupture of the balance of oral microeconomics, the oral bacterial group leads to an increase in anaerobic bacteria, and the metabolite of myelin thiourea is released, resulting in bad breath. Gastric lipases such as gastric ulcers and gastritis can also produce some odor gases that are excreted from the mouth.

2 The mask itself leads.

The lid is mainly non-woven fabric, and the raw material of non-woven fabric is "polypropylene", theoretically, polypropylene is odorless, but in the process of using raw materials and other organic molecules, various additives and during storage. It may form a taste.

In general, the taste is very light, since the polypropylene is in a mask after a series of "defensive" processes, and the mask itself is very small. However, if the mask producer qualifies, or even if it is produced illegally, the flavor can also be relatively large. But even a formal qualified mask, even a very good one, will taste good if worn for a long time.

How to avoid mask odors.

First of all, prevention and ** bad breath. According to your actual situation, oral or digestive tract diseases** is one of the effective ways to prevent bad breath. In addition, by taking good daily oral care, it helps to relieve bad breath. Advise friends to do the following:

1 Brush at least twice a day, as much as possible before breakfast and before going to bed.

2. After dinner, there is a kind of dental floss to clean the food residue between the gums.

3When brushing your teeth, pay attention to cleaning your tongue to remove food residue and bacteria from the tongue coating, clean your teeth.

4. Eat food (such as garlic, onions, etc.).

Second, use the mask correctly. Avoiding masks is above all to avoid wearing them out of date and do not need to be dry. At the moment, for the average person, masks are often not discarded once, need to be reused, avoid waste, in fact, wait two days, the third day, in clean air, it is also possible.

Of course, it refers to the situation in non-endemic areas, non-dense contact populations.

It doesn't have to be bad breath, because wearing a mask, there will be gas in your breath, and after passing through the mask, it will be left on it, and over time, bacteria will be produced and there will be a peculiar smell.

Because wearing a mask for a long time will not spread the breath, it will only be in the mask, and over time there will be a peculiar smell, which is the taste in your mouth. Well, that's bad breath to be exact.

This is indeed related to the smell of the mouth, we must change the mask frequently when wearing a mask, such as changing the mask every 3-4 hours is more appropriate.

For the epidemic prevention and control work, we still cannot relax, and we still insist on wearing masks when we go out every day. With the passage of time, we have been wearing masks for more than a year. I don't know if you feel this way, no matter what kind of mask it is, a surgical mask or a 3m mask, wearing it for a long time will cause a big smell in the mask, and this smell always makes people want to take off the mask.

Where do these odors come from? These 2 possibilities given by experts will surprise you!

Bad breath refers to an unpleasant smell emitted by the mouth when breathing, and the smell in the mask is actually bad breath itself. You may be very surprised to see this, maybe you are wondering why you didn't smell this smell when you wore a mask before, this is mainly because when you don't wear a mask, the exhaled air is diluted by the outside air, and there is no barrier like a mask, so it is difficult for us to smell the odor in our mouth. There are two main causes of bad breath, one is oral-derived odor and the other is caused by digestive tract diseases.

Bad breath is a relatively common oral disease, if a person is nervous, or when they are sleep-deprived, or even hungry, they will feel a bad smell in their mouth, which is mainly due to the gradual decrease in saliva secretion. This is because poor oral hygiene can lead to bad breath. The other is caused by various diseases, such as dental calculus, periodontitis and so on.

There are many microorganisms in the mouth that are difficult to find, including various bacteria, as well as some anaerobic bacteria and so on. When diseases occur in the oral cavity, the ecological balance of the oral cavity will be broken. At this time, the microflora is out of balance, resulting in an increase in the proportion of anaerobic bacteria, at which point a type of bacteria that cause odor in the mouth is released, which causes bad breath.

The mask itself is supported by a non-woven fabric, and the raw material of the non-woven fabric is polypropylene, according to scientific research, polypropylene is a tasteless and non-toxic substance, but after processing and the mixing process of various raw materials, it will cause the mask to have a certain taste. However, under normal circumstances, polypropylene will have a deodorization process after being made into masks, so the odor of the mask itself is very small. However, there are many unscrupulous masks illegally produced by merchants, and the smell will be relatively large.

Even if the mask produced by some qualified manufacturers is not replaced, it will smell if you wear it for a long time without changing it.

In general, the epidemic is not over, we still need to struggle, our fight against the new crown epidemic is still ongoing, masks are an important means of our epidemic prevention and control, we need to wear masks every day, when the mask has a bad smell, then we need to change the mask. When the mask smells, it can also indicate that we ourselves have bad breath, so we also need to do some ** to change this situation.

In fact, the mask smells, because wearing a mask for a long time will make your breathing difficult, so you will smell a foul smell.

It should be bad breath. Many people will find themselves with this problem after wearing a mask, and you can go to the hospital for a check-up.

Depending on the type of bad breath, some people have poor hygiene habits, such as not brushing their teeth thoroughly, not liking to brush their tongue, bad teeth in their mouths, mouth ulcers, periodontitis, gum recession, etc., which may cause bad breath.

When wearing a mask, you can always smell a foul smell, in fact, this has a certain relationship with bad breath and mask odor, because some masks are not particularly formal, if there is a problem with the raw materials, it is possible to smell some peculiar smells in the process of use. There are also some people who suffer from bad breath, but they don't usually wear a mask, or they don't pay attention to it and are used to smelling, so the problem of bad breath is magnified when they wear this kind of mask, so that everyone smells bad smell when they wear a mask.

Most of the bad breath is directly related to some diseases, such as some people have some diseases in the mouth, such as gingivitis, periodontitis or oral mucosa, which may cause bad breath. Some of them are caused by diseases in other body organs, such as sinusitis, tonsillitis, gastrointestinal diseases, peptic ulcers, etc. In addition, there are some bad breath problems caused by metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, etc., which can make the metabolism in the body abnormal.

Most of the cases of wearing a mask and smelling the smell are because you have a mask and not a mask problem, so if you want to prevent bad breath, you must maintain oral hygiene, brush your teeth every morning and evening, and rinse your mouth in time after eating, if you can remove food residues to avoid causing odors. When brushing your teeth, you should also use correct brushing, do not brush at random, brush from top to bottom, and brush every surface of your teeth as much as possible. It is also important to visit the dental clinic regularly to check your oral health to ensure that there are no oral diseases in your mouth.

Finally, because of the epidemic, everyone must wear a mask when going out, and the weather is so hot now, if you smell bad breath, it is really unbearable.

It's bad breath. Inferior masks will have a smell when you put them on, but it is not a smell, but the smell of the materials used to make the mask. If you don't wear a mask, you can't smell your bad breath, and if you wear it, the air won't circulate, and you can smell your bad breath.

Now that we are wearing masks, the air in our mouths cannot be dissipated outward, and all the gas exhaled from what we usually eat is on the masks, so the masks will be more smelly, so we usually have to change the masks in time.

I think it's bad breath, it's the smell of bad breath coming out of your mouth sticking to your mask.