How to Do the Saliva pH Test

Wait at least 2 hours after eating. Fill your mouth with saliva and then
swallow it. Do this again to help ensure that the saliva is clean. Then the
third time, put some saliva onto pH paper.

The pH paper should turn blue. This indicates that your saliva is slightly
alkaline at a healthy pH of 7.4. If it is not blue, compare the color with
the chart that comes with the pH paper. If your saliva is acid (below pH of
7.0) wait two hours and repeat the test.

Where to Get pH Paper

It would be good if health food stores and pharmacies would stock pH paper.
Why not go to your local health food store or pharmacy and suggest this to
them? There are many suppliers of pH paper. Look for laboratory suppliers in
the phone book. You want narrow range pH paper measuring pH 4.5 to 7.5 or pH
4.5 to 8.5. One source is Micro Essential Laboratory Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.
11210 telephone 718-338-3618. They will send you a catalogue. When sending a
container of pH paper through the mail to a friend, a single roll dispenser
(catalog #334 that measures pH 4.5 - 7.5) is quite sturdy and should not
break. However, the Jumbo strips (catalog #3827) in the more fragile plastic
tube container are larger and easier to read. These pH strips to measure
acid/alkaline balance belong in every family medicine kit, right beside the
thermometer to measure body temperature.