What are those nasty white things that be in your mouth and they make your breat!
Question: what in t he world are those things...they smell like poop and i hate them its like they come out of some kind of pocket in the back of my mouth, it looks like a gland....how do i get rid of these nasty things????? help please
i know im not the only person who gets them becuz other people have told me they get them too
Answers: what in t he world are those things...they smell like poop and i hate them its like they come out of some kind of pocket in the back of my mouth, it looks like a gland....how do i get rid of these nasty things????? help please
i know im not the only person who gets them becuz other people have told me they get them too
These things are called tonsilloliths ("tonsil stones.") You have described them perfectly. They are typically white, or whitish-yellow, irregularly-shaped, foul-smelling, and usually smaller than a pea. The tissue lining the tonsils (oral mucosa) is fairly sensitive, so people with this problem often report that they feel an irritation in the back of their throat and are able to pick these critters out of their tonsils.
Like your skin, oral mucosa sheds continuously. The dead cells become incorporated in your saliva and then you swallow them. Yum! One more anatomical fact that you need to know: the surface of your tonsils is pockmarked with deep pits, appropriately called "crypts" (since dead stuff accumulates in these pits.) Oral mucosa lines the crypts. Under normal circumstances, as this mucosa sheds, the dead cells leave the crypts and are swallowed. In some unlucky people, the dead cells accumulate and glom together to form hard little balls. All of this dead stuff makes great food for bacteria, and of course your oral cavity is colonized by all kinds of bacteria. Consequently, the tonsilloliths are ripe with bacteria. This accounts for the smell.
The only sure-fire method for ridding yourself of this problem is to have your tonsils removed (tonsillectomy), but there are nonsurgical alternatives which you should certainly pursue before you ask an ENT to take out your tonsils: