Gee, Enola Straight, glad to have helped, I guess. It must have been pretty satisfying to get rid of so much. Now that you’ve gone back there, there’s no turning back. Soon you’ll be sitting around with your tongue in the back of your mouth, working on extracting tonsiliths during important conversations, etc.
Damn, I want to learn how to do the “self tongue clean”.
Isn’t there a risk of actually swallowing your tongue though?
I’ve had those nasties from the tonsils too - my doc called them inflammatory exudate.
I’ve been hacking these things up for years, but they’ve never been smelly. Anyone else?
Squish one, then smell it.
What, nobody calls them throat smegma?
Smegma is described as ‘cheesey pearls’, right? same description applies here. The exudate part of it is the same, but being in your mouth means you get to add bits of things to it that make a merry home for bacteria. hence the smell. The base function, IIRC, is as a lubricant for your throat (as smegma is for… well, look it up if you don’t know the term). Why either ‘lubricant’ would be lumpy, don’t ask me - I just live in this body, I didn’t design it.
I find that if I’m drinking enough water, they don’t stink (and they tend to be smaller and more healthy-colored). If I am not drinking enough water, or I am otherwise ill, :eek: .
Tonsil Cheese!
Tonsil boogers.
Years ago, my doctor suggested occasional warm salt water gargle to prevent this from happening. Tonsils are porous with a surface texture something like the skin of a strawberry, with pits into which food particles accumulate. His explanation was that the salt crystals had the effect of “sand blasting” the tonsil area and cleaned everything out. Additionally, the salt tends to dry out the mouth as you sleep, allowing infections to heal faster. I’ve perfected my agrgling method to the point where I can channel the salt water around my tonsil area with great force. Since I’ve started doing this (about 6 or 8 years), I’ve not had a tonsil turd.
You know how your lips can get “addicted” to Chapstik?
I think my punching-bag-thingie-in-the-back-of-my-throat is addicted to tonsil tongue-ing. If I don’t, I get stopped up with thick mucus.
