I brush my tongue alot and drink lots of water when I get the awful taste in my mouth. I try to keep my mouth closes ALOT too. There is no actually way to get rid of it, because your body is trying to get rid of the toxions out or your body. It is a horrible thing to suffer, but you will feel much better if you just allow your body to do it's thing.

As you reach ketosis a coated tongue is normal. I also brushed my tongue during my fast, I used a little plastic tool thats used for scraping off lottery tickets, lol. Latinmess used a dull butter knife to scrape hers. I have heard of a tongue scraper, maybe you could find one in a drug store but really anything dull will do the trick.

Scraping the tongue before brushing really helps but the coating always comes back and bad breath is part of the process too.

Good luck.

Willow

Hello Unfettered_Moth,
I can sympathize with your experience...........that awful bad taste in the mouth.
I cleaned my tongue & mouth with a strong bristled toothbrush during both of my extended fasts but the taste was far more pleasant during my second as most of the work of detox had been accomplished.
However, in retrospect and contrary to what Shelton states below, I do not see any harm in a once a day mouth wash, just so long as it is of an organic origin. This will stimulate the salivary glands to some degree but only momentarily and where in my opinion, it will not make any difference one iota to the outcome.
Shelton was too strict sometimes I feel.


FOR THE BAD TASTE...............

"Throughout most of the fast, the fasting individual is annoyed by a very bad taste in the mouth. This may be alleviated somewhat by a daily scrubbing of the tongue with a toothbrush. This should not be done, however, until after the tongue has been examined by. the doctor who is conducting the fast. Mouth washes, lemon juice, etc., are not to be recommended. Gargling the throat is certainly of no value. As the fast progresses and the tongue clears up, the taste becomes less and less offensive, until, when the fast should be broken, the taste in the mouth is very pleasant".

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch29.htm



THE TONGUE AND BREATH.................

"These are interesting studies during a fast. The tongue becomes heavily coated in almost every instance (I have seen five or six exceptions) and remains so throughout the fast, gradually clearing up, beginning at the edges and the point, until, when hunger returns, it is clean.

The breath becomes very foul and remains so during most of the fast, gradually becoming less so as the work of purification proceeds, until, with the return of hunger, it is sweet and clean. The more foul is a man's body, the more foul will be his breath and the more heavily coated his tongue".

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch27.htm


Regards

Chrisb1.

PS. Still no heating here until Tuesday at the earliest, and I am typing this in my lounge looking what most people would call......Russian-like.......bearskins and everything.
You couldn't pay me to fast in these icy conditions.
Keep warm everyone............otherwise this will inhibit elimination and waste your nerve-force.

reconstituted clove, strong spearmint tea and of course lots of water. clove also helps with the keto breath issue.

Try oil pulling with raw coconut oil. I mix in pure chlorella sonit will bind and remove mercury that is pulled... since my mercury Amalgams gave me mercury poisoning. I've since had them safely removed by a holistic, mercury-safe, mercury-free dentist, but my mouth is still super-saturated. After a good oil pull and lots of spitting and rinsing.... mouth feels 100x better than before! Hope this helps!