Does kidney deficiency cause bad breath?

Kidney deficiency generally causes halitosis.

Kidney deficiency is divided into kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. Among them, patients with kidney yin deficiency due to the loss of yin fluid in the body, unable to control yang, can cause deficiency heat endogenous, and internal heat can consume body fluid, and then lead to patients with halitosis performance, but also accompanied by dry mouth, bitter mouth, dry throat and stool dry knot, urine short red, hands and feet hot, hot flashes, night sweats, dizziness tinnitus, waist pain and other discomfort performance. However, there are many reasons for halitosis, in addition to kidney yin deficiency, but also can be seen in other diseases, such as liver fire exuberance, liver and gallbladder damp heat and stomach fire exuberance.