What Are Those White Spots on My Throat?
An increasing number of folks are finding white spots on the back of their tonsils, and they are not entirely sure what to do about it. Thankfully in most instances, they are nothing more than tonsil stones – small accumulations of food particles and other microscopic bacteria that can collect in the tonsil crypts or the tonsils themselves. Tonsilloliths can appear in a number of different places in the mouth. But because they tend to accumulate near the back of the throat, the sensation is often that of something hard and / or lumpy in the back of the throat that seems like it could be easily swallowed, but it cannot. That sensation is almost worse than the tonsillolith itself. But not quite. Nothing is worse than the disgusting little blobs that smell like natural gas mixed with rotten eggs. They can cause all manner of annoying symptoms, the most common of which is bad breath. Removing them is a challenge generally, but on occasion you will likely cough one up at the absolute worst
