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My tongue is like a sponge, is yours?
My tongue is like a sponge, is yours?
My tongue normally looks smooth except of the very back where its a little rough. Now if I even gently scrape the surface with e.g. my finger, it reveals those "hair-like" things that are on the tongue of which the edges are white (gives the tongue the white color), which makes it look like its hairy.
Now I've been researching the hairy-tongue since long time ago and all I came up with is that its normal and it will go away on itself if you eat rough food.
When I brush with the tung brush it seems that a lot of thick-saliva (which is probably mostly mucous mixed with saliva) comes from within the tongue, like it is a sponge that was sucking all the mucous throughout the day.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has that. This "hairy-tongue" thing makes it easy for bacteria to hide inside the tongue and all that mucous that gets sucked in is all the food they need to produce that stinking stuff.
Everyone has a different tongue. Maybe what makes our mouths prone to bad breath and the bacteria that cause it, is the structure of our tongues that is formed by our genetics?
In other words...
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however, it doesn't seem to be coming from the tongue, or even what was on the tongue.. i'll stick out my tongue, use the brush for 20 seconds or so .. i won't put my tongue back in my mouth, .. but when i go to spit the gunk out, it seems to have collected closer to the back of my throat.. it's not from the tongue at all.. i think the tongue brushing just stimulates more saliva to be produced.. that saliva may loosen up the slimy surface of my mouth or something.. but i'm certain it's not comoing out of my tongue..
interesting theory though.. i too have a very hairy tongue .. i also have a lot of round formations on the furthest reaches of my tongue.. if i put my finger back there, i can feel that they go all the way to the back of the throat too..
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I also get a lot of slimey stuff showing up after brushing. Could be a defense mechanism from annoying the throat area with the tung brush...
Anyway, if only we could find a way to clean that very posterior part of the tongue gently but effectively (brushing that area (behind the arrow-shaped formation of taste buds) is not recommended) we'd be onto something
Some time after meals I usually feel a slimey lump kind of on the borderline between the nasal passage and the throat - kind of on top of the left end of the soft palate on this image:
Maybe that's also a hiding place for bacteria. Does anyone else get that feeling of a lump in that area?
Btw one time at school during gym class a boy from my class was sticking his tongue out to another boy. The other boy's reactions was "Aah look it all white shit on his tongue". He was really grossed out by it. I've talked to the boy who stuck is his tongue out many times, I can assure you he is not a chronic halitosis sufferer. I was like damn his whole tongue is coated with white stuff. Why the hell doesn't he suffer from halitosis like I do. It was a little mean to think like that now that i think of it.
Put some sewage in a blender, add some gum, turn it on. It will still stink.
These hairs are impossible to scratsch or nipp of. i think they smell by them selves. But also absorb, and easily takes up what is being put in the mouth.If I scrape of all the coat, they will quickly get coated back again. just like spongue always do in a moisty enviroment.
Yes this is exactly what i mean. These hair-like things start pink and are white at the top.vanja wrote:When i scrape off all the coating on my tongue, i reveal "individual" threads.(white hair). I think they are an extension, or the end of the utter cells on the tongue.
Did you ask any doc about this?
I remember last summer I used my tongue scraper A LOT for a few days, so much that my tongue hurt. I saw these "hair" getting smaller and smaller mostly in the middle line of the tongue (because I scraped there better) and my tongue got pink at those spots while my bb was a lot better but it was impossible to follow that routine for long.
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Yes I have dry mouth but not always, this is when my bad breath gets even worse. Its just random times of the day, especially when I'm out, thats why I believe it has do with my (many) allergies...unsungzero7 wrote:do you have dry mouth? Exactly how do they administer an oral thrush test because I think i should go get one myself for ive had a history of yeast problems. Is it a simple saliva test? Also, have you ever done the home test for candida where u spit in a glass of water and watch for the cloudy saliva? I know I fail miserably.
Of course I also get dry mouth when i speak. I drink a lot of water too...
For the saliva test my ENT took a small plastic (i think) tube like thing (like a pen) and it had inside something that looked like a q-tip. He rubbed the edge on my tongue and put it back in the tube and gave it to me to take it to a microbiology lab. I took the results the next day and it only cost me 20€ which were returned to me by my insurance like for almost all the tests I did :p