Why would you have to wash your face before eating? Or brush your teeth? You can do it after.
I suppose you don't HAVE to. But I find it unhygienic to eat before brushing my teeth as soon as I wake up. Might just be my personal issue. 🤷♂️
that's like wiping before you shit
I was told by a dentist to brush my teeth before eating. So at least one dentist would disagree with that I guess?
I’ve read that it helps protect your teeth from all the acidic food you’re gonna eat for breakfast, not necessarily for “hygiene” purposes.
When you brush your teeth and don’t use mouthwash right after, the tooth paste forms a protective barrier to help prevent erosion and acid damage.
That's the 1 in 5 dentists who don't recommend a fluoride toothpaste.
Dentist: "Use toothpicks, shove em under your gums! Use the blood as your toothpaste! You can even do it to other stuff, too, like digging out a bladder stone!"
Me, in the chair in the office: 😐😶😯🫨
please.
bladder stones you gotta use salad tongs
The heck? I thought both eating and brushing sort of soften your teeth temporarily, so better not to eat right after brushing OR brush immediately after eating.
What, you don’t do it both before and after?
It’s just like showers, you take one as you get out of bed, and another one right before going to bed.
Some people are just dirty, sheeesh…
Edit: -> /s
Almost no one showers more than once per day. So for you, "most people are just dirty", not just "some".
when i lived in a hot, humid environment i showered twice a day. once when i woke up, because i used to have hair and that's how it worked best, and once when i got in for the evening and could stay in air conditioning the rest of the night.
I added the sarcasm to my previous comment…
One reason we brush our teeth is to apply a protective coating. Brushing your teeth immediately after eating can damage your teeth.
A more appropriate analogy is asking whether you’re jumping in a pool of mud before waxing your shoes.
Wait... That's not normal? I wipe my whole body down before hand.
For me it's the other way around. After eating I want to clean my teeth.
The taste of toothpaste lingers for a while and ruins the flavor of breakfast, especially orange juice.
The Way™ is Coffee/tea/juice to temporarily overwrite that morning breath feeling, then breakfast, then brushing teeth.
The way™️ is to drink enough water and actually brush before bed. If you’re sufficiently hydrated, and you don’t have all that bacteria shitting up your mouth then your morning breath will be a lot less stanky.
Your way is to have to pee all night.
I'm not saying drink a gallon right before bed. Drink plenty of water throughout the day, then slowly less and less until it's about bed time. Then take a fat piss before you go to bed.
Instructions unclear. Urinated on hooker and got charged extra.
Aaah before, not in. Why didn't anyone tell me
Dude. I'm getting near to 50 years old. Thinking about water after 7pm is a recipe for 10x bathroom trips in the night.
Vibes based hygiene
I brush my teeth as soon I wake up to get rid of morning breath (possibly due to dry mouth)
i brush my teeth after breakfast. maybe it's half an hour after waking. maybe it's noon. it doesn't really matter
I brush after eating, never before.
My face isn't dirty after sleeping.
The appeal is that someone else is taking care of you, to the degree of getting up hours earlier to cook for you.
I imagine it's a luxury from the days before our current standards of climate control.
Imagine you don't have a central heating unit--you've got fireplaces, and that's it. You wake up, and it's a brisk 8°C in your house. Staying in your nice cozy bed might not sound so bad.
It may also be a leftover thing from days when people couldn't afford to stay in bed in the morning. Only the rich could afford to lounge around that way, so having that once a year would have been a way to treat someone like royalty.
Yup, this makes sense.
My wife has an autoimmune syndrome that makes stairs painful in the morning. I wake up, make coffee, bring her coffee and a snack, and about an hour later when I know she's awake I bring her breakfast in bed. We eat together and talk about what we'll do for our respective days, and if there's anything we need to coordinate for the day that's when we talk about it. By the time she's done with that she's mobile enough to do some stretches and loosen up enough to walk.
As someone else said, coffee for morning breath, eat breakfast, then brush teeth. It's about being served breakfast as soon as your ready to sit up in bed
Wtf... Who brushes their teeth BEFORE they eat?! That's like wiping your ass before you shit
I think that's actually what dentists recommend (brushing before eating not wiping before you shit). I can't remember the details fully but I thought it had something to do with particles of food getting pushed into spots it shouldn't if you brush right after. Toothpaste is meant to protect your teeth, so brushing after eating probably more like waxing a dirty car than wiping before you shit.
Yeah, I literally gagged when I read that.
Hmm like I get you should brush your teeth but, why would you brush your teeth before you eat in the morning?
Because I don't want to eat before I've gotten rid of my morning breath.
That’s fair you do you
So :
Yes, I wash up after breakfast anyway.
No. I resent even having to go pee.
I love not having to get up, saying toasty in bed (my house gets very cold 6 months a year--around 12C). Also, we tend to make better breakfasts in those cases. With a flower from the garden and everything.
Additionally, in my 9 year old's case: since she was born, she had at least 80% of her breakfasts in bed. She likes to wake up slow, she reads for a while after waking up, and since she started middle school her days are hectic, so we pamper her that way. It's twenty minutes of comfort before she starts her 10-hour days.
do people just wake up and start consuming food/drink without brushing their teeth & washing their face?
Yes. I also generally eat breakfast before showering or brushing my teeth.
what's the appeal? I get liking someone else making your breakfast, but why is having it in bed fun?
It is an extremely lazy way to get breakfast. You don't even have to move out of bed to eat.
I've got the same question.
You could sit confortably to eat on a bed. But you can't do it in the bed. And whatever is your posture to eat, it is one you'll take to chill in a bed. So what the point? Why put crumbs, sticky stuff and beverage to a bed that will to be confortable ?
For the real fancy experience, you can use a bed tray. Example
I know them but don't think they solve anything.
Bed tray is the way
It's a good deal when offered
It probably started with one person getting up earlier, making coffee, and bringing back coffee and some small pastry or something. That would be easy to deal with, and a nice wake up.
Then it turned into this whole thing where they bring a tray with all this stuff on it, including a vase with a flower, and it's all wobbly and spilling, and you have sit up with your legs out straight, unable to properly lean back against something, etc. It was a nice thought, but way more trouble than it's worth.
Just bring me some coffee, please.
Only when I am confined to bed. But even in this case, washing your face in the morning is a must...
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