I STINK like garlic please HELP!!!

[Minnie]

I have a sinus infection and IÂ’m doing many things, herbs, neti (on order), and a HUGE increase of garlic! I eat so much garlic I stink up any room IÂ’m in. I went to my uncleÂ’s house today. I was talking to my aunt for 5 minutes and when my uncle came in he thought my aunt was cooking something with garlic and there was nothing cooking it was my breath STINKING up his house! :eek:

I donÂ’t want to stop my garlic intake, but I donÂ’t want to reek like garlic all the time. What can help? I was thinking chewing on mint leaves might help, but it might not be strong enough. I donÂ’t know. What can I do???? :confused:

Minnie :(

[Spectatrix]

Mint might help your breath, but it probably won't help the garlic smell altogether. Garlic is one thing (onion is another) that you can noticeably smell from your pores oozing it out if you eat a lot.

[rawpriestess]

you can rub lemon juice on your body, but I doubt if it will help much. It will remove garlic from your hands.


I think zinc takes the smell out of our bodies, you might try that.

[kyrie]

Ok,

Here's how you fix your dramas with garlic. Take the core out of the cloves of garlic, i.e. split them in half, and you will clearly see the core, where the young shoot would grow from it the clove was planted.

Also increase your intake of wheatgrass juice. I wouldn't drink it straight, because that would be blech :eek: , but with carrot, strawberry, oranges etc, all mixed together, whatever fruit juice you like.

Trust me that will within the same day, eliminate the scent of garlic from anywhere in your body.

Good luck,

Carla.

[lissomllama]

Hmm, the others seem to have given you good advice. I've never understood why smelling like garlic is bad. I love the smell of garlic. I'd love to smell garlic cooking all day. Yummy. I don't understand the big deal. If it smells so bad why is everybody eating it and loving it so much? I don't mean to be a contrarian but I've always wondered about that.

[honeybee joy]

I have read that when a guy gave his dogs and himself probiotics, there body odor and bad breath stopped.

[jaurequi]

I agree with the greens suggestions; chlorophyll removes odors, even from stools.

If it's a chronic issue or even if you have bad breath, bad gas, or bad stool smells, you can use chlorophyll. Take a tablespoon or so as directed and that helps. There are also tablets available, but I have only used the liquid in glass bottles. I found it at natural markets in the supplements sections.

Worked wonders: no more smell. I would suggest trying it for your garlic issue.

Best,

[Revvell]

Because garlic coming from the body is not quite so good as the frangrance of cooking garlic. I had a student who'd come to class after having a lunch of garlic pasta. The "fragrance" was overwhelming. It would stay in my home for hours. When I worked w/ a chiropractor and I ate garlic, no one could work in a room I'd been in. It's more of a musty odor than a frangrance when coming out of one's body.

It's a natural anti-biotic which is one reason why minnie is injesting it.

As far as the current situation, I'll bet once the sinus infection disappears and she stops w/ the garlic, (if she does) the "fragrance" will disappear as well.


I've never understood why smelling like garlic is bad. I love the smell of garlic. I'd love to smell garlic cooking all day. Yummy. I don't understand the big deal.

[beelzebubble]

I must eat 4-5 cloves of garlic a day, and i never smell like garlic. my sister and i will sit down to the same dinner and she will smell like garlic and i won't. why is that, do you think?

[Spectatrix]

Because garlic coming from the body is not quite so good as the frangrance of cooking garlic.
Quite true... the same goes for onions. I remember tutoring at the library a couple of years ago and we were going to use a study room that some Indian students had been using right before us... they'd had the door shut and the room absolutely REEKED of onion and garlic, two foods that I really like! We had to let the room air out for 10 minutes or so before we could stand being in there.

[rawpriestess]

different cultures eat different spices and foods,

I have a friend who is special ops, I can always tell when she is getting read to go and do something heroic, because she stops eating American food, as they call it, she can only eat bland foods, or else she has to eat the spices of the country she is going to, so she smells like they do,

no perfume, makeup shampoo, laundry soap, regualar soap, fabric softener or deoderant for about 3 to 4 days before she goes.

it was very interesting the first time she said these were actual military orders to NOT be around this "American smell" LOL

[lissomllama]

Because garlic coming from the body is not quite so good as the frangrance of cooking garlic. I had a student who'd come to class after having a lunch of garlic pasta. The "fragrance" was overwhelming. It would stay in my home for hours. When I worked w/ a chiropractor and I ate garlic, no one could work in a room I'd been in. It's more of a musty odor than a frangrance when coming out of one's body.

It's a natural anti-biotic which is one reason why minnie is injesting it.

As far as the current situation, I'll bet once the sinus infection disappears and she stops w/ the garlic, (if she does) the "fragrance" will disappear as well.

Hm, never really thought about that, thanks for letting me know. I guess I'm just weird, whenever I smell garlic on someone's breath it never bothers me, I just think "hm, garlic". Obviously this is just a 'me' thing and an 'everone else' thing. I do know about the strong antibiotic properties of garlic (I used to use it on my face to get rid of acne and it worked wonders but now I prefer to rid myself of acne from the inside.

[aravis]

Consuming Garlic is well worth whatever odors you might exude! I have made up this special Garlic potion that is Garlic steeped in Apple Cider Vinegar for 2 weeks. Among other things, I used it as "Whining Medicine" for my 2 year old daughter. At first she HATED it. Then one night at dinner she was whining and I said, "Lucie, you are whining, you must be sick, do you need some medicine?" She said "NO!" but continued whining so I gave her some. Well, I asked her "are you done now or do you need some more?" She said she needed some more after 7 or so more doses I finnally figured out that I was going to have to come up with a new plan for combatting whining! The funny thing is that my 4 year old son then asked for some and decided he loved it too! Now they both ask for it on a regular basis and I'm happy to give it to them. Even my baby takes it if something is going around. I've seen it work wonders. (I only take it when I'm REALLY desperate - tastes NASTY to me!) The funny thing is that now any time my daughter sees me peeling Garlic cloves she asks for one and she will chew it up whole! I don't know many adults who do that.
I am wondering if the body gives off garlic odors when you are increasing your intake of it because when I first started using alot I would smell like garlic and now I can eat however much I want and I never notice any smell. Maybe others do....? My kids are the same way. I smelled it on them at first, now I only smell it on their breath.
One more thing, when I was pregnant with my 1st son I went to a massage therapist who was on some sort of Garlic Juice fast. We were in a small room and she kind of spits when she talks and, my oh my, I did not think I was going to make it through that!

[Cinnamon]

Very interesting thread with lots of great information. My mom can't stand it when I've eaten garlic. She can smell the odor as soon as I walk into her house and she complains so much I just don't go around her after I've eaten garlic. But I sure do love it!