Bismuth manages my bb
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:24 am
Bismuth subsalicylate, sold in the United States as Pepto-Bismol™ chewable tables, provides me with relatively long-lasting bb relief. It doesn’t cure the condition – instead it very effectively and inexpensively lets me manage it.
Using this product has helped me to better understand the route to effective bb management, and perhaps, provides a useful piece of information that qualifies, or disqualifies, other advertised remedies.
Pepto-Bismol™ is composed of bismuth subsalicylate. It is sold to relieve upset stomachs and ease diarrhea by decreasing harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract. The tablets are composed of thousands of extremely-fine, solid particles pressed into a chewable tablet. The bismuth used in this product has several key qualities essential for bb relief.
1. Bismuth is antimicrobial. It kills, or decreases the growth rate of microorganisms.
2. Bismuth is not water soluble. It will not readily rinse away; therefore, bismuth’s residence time in your mouth can last for hours, unlike most antimicrobial agents found in common mouthwashes that may rinse away and be swallowed within minutes, thus quickly ending their effect.
3. The bismuth subsalicylate particles are finely ground and thus the particles are numerous within a single tablet. Therefore, if one completely chews a tablet and distributes the chewed powder fully to all surfaces of the mouth, especially working it deep into the tongue, before swallowing the excess - one has “painted” the mouth with a pleasant tasting, water insoluble, antimicrobial agent, that will linger and actively work for hours, and perhaps all day.
I invite you to try this test. At night, just before bed, perform your normal, oral hygiene routine. When you are finished, thoroughly chew a single Pepto-Bismol tablet and distribute the material throughout your mouth for about one minute. Work the chewed powder deep into your tongue. Swallow the excess. DO NOT RINSE with water or mouthwash. Your tongue will take on a pink painted appearance. Next morning when you awake, observe the quality of your breath and look at the color of your tongue. Has your breath improved versus its normal condition? Is your tongue colored black? The black color is temporary and harmless. It is due to the volatile sulfur compounds, produced by bb bacteria, reacting with bismuth to become odorless, black, bismuth sulfide. This is evidence that the sulfur, typically generated in our mouths, has been sorbed and captured by the bismuth subsalicylate. It is easily brushed away by gently using a TUNG brush or toothbrush.
In the past I have used these tablets with good success; however, I would briefly chew one and then quickly swallow it. Lately I have been much more deliberate in working the chewed material deep within my tongue. This has dramatically decreased the bb and it has enabled the effectiveness to last many hours, due to the prolonged residence time of the powder within my mouth.
I do not sell or manufacture this product. I have no connection to the business in any way. I have, however, used this product for years with no apparent side effect. I am not a physician.
Using this product has helped me to better understand the route to effective bb management, and perhaps, provides a useful piece of information that qualifies, or disqualifies, other advertised remedies.
Pepto-Bismol™ is composed of bismuth subsalicylate. It is sold to relieve upset stomachs and ease diarrhea by decreasing harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract. The tablets are composed of thousands of extremely-fine, solid particles pressed into a chewable tablet. The bismuth used in this product has several key qualities essential for bb relief.
1. Bismuth is antimicrobial. It kills, or decreases the growth rate of microorganisms.
2. Bismuth is not water soluble. It will not readily rinse away; therefore, bismuth’s residence time in your mouth can last for hours, unlike most antimicrobial agents found in common mouthwashes that may rinse away and be swallowed within minutes, thus quickly ending their effect.
3. The bismuth subsalicylate particles are finely ground and thus the particles are numerous within a single tablet. Therefore, if one completely chews a tablet and distributes the chewed powder fully to all surfaces of the mouth, especially working it deep into the tongue, before swallowing the excess - one has “painted” the mouth with a pleasant tasting, water insoluble, antimicrobial agent, that will linger and actively work for hours, and perhaps all day.
I invite you to try this test. At night, just before bed, perform your normal, oral hygiene routine. When you are finished, thoroughly chew a single Pepto-Bismol tablet and distribute the material throughout your mouth for about one minute. Work the chewed powder deep into your tongue. Swallow the excess. DO NOT RINSE with water or mouthwash. Your tongue will take on a pink painted appearance. Next morning when you awake, observe the quality of your breath and look at the color of your tongue. Has your breath improved versus its normal condition? Is your tongue colored black? The black color is temporary and harmless. It is due to the volatile sulfur compounds, produced by bb bacteria, reacting with bismuth to become odorless, black, bismuth sulfide. This is evidence that the sulfur, typically generated in our mouths, has been sorbed and captured by the bismuth subsalicylate. It is easily brushed away by gently using a TUNG brush or toothbrush.
In the past I have used these tablets with good success; however, I would briefly chew one and then quickly swallow it. Lately I have been much more deliberate in working the chewed material deep within my tongue. This has dramatically decreased the bb and it has enabled the effectiveness to last many hours, due to the prolonged residence time of the powder within my mouth.
I do not sell or manufacture this product. I have no connection to the business in any way. I have, however, used this product for years with no apparent side effect. I am not a physician.