If you have nasty stuff coming from your tonsils then you are in the right place. Tonsil stones are perhaps one of the nastiest things that our mouths can produce. The interesting thing about tonsil stones is that millions of people have them but very few know exactly what they are. You’ll find plenty of doctors who have no idea what these things are or how they come about. The reason why medical research and diagnosis of tonsil stones has lagged behind other medical issues is simply because they are disgusting. People who have these tonsil stones are too embarrassed to take them to the doctor and figure out what they are. They typically chalk them up to bad oral hygiene and move on with their lives determined to clean their mouths even more thoroughly.

The problem with this resolution is simply the fact that your oral hygiene in the traditional sense cannot stop these tonsil stones from forming. I remember being obsessed with my tonsils as a child and getting them removed. The prospect of receiving unlimited amounts of ice-cream seemed too good to pass up. We usually learn all of our information about our tonsils as a child. We know that they are in our body trap to germs from entering our system. We also know that after a while they harbor germs and can in some cases turn on our bodies and start to harm us requiring their removal, thus the ice cream + removing tonsils story.

Most people, when nasty stuff starts forming on their tonsils think that they have some form of tonsil cancer or have pieces of a tumor breaking off. I know those thoughts certainly crossed my mind! The fowl stenches of these things are unbearable and actually made a friend of my throw-up. The truth of the matter is that there are few simple steps that you can take to reduce the amount of tonsil stones you develop.

First off these nasty white balls develop in the crypts of your tonsils. Yes your tonsils have crypts. Much like a golf ball with several dimples, your tonsils have holes and spaces where food and debris can accumulate. When food, debris, or germs get trapped in these crypts then white blood cells appear and try to attack them “the whitish/yellowish appearance”. This results in a growing and persistent tonsil stone in the back of your throat. You’ll start to feel as though a pearl is being developed and feel it grow every day. No matter how much coughing or gagging you do you really can’t seem to get them to go away without the proper methods.

Here’s where three things come in handy:

1) Buy a water-pik that has a large water-reservoir, a water-pik is basically a water pump connected to a small nozzle that will spray directed streams of water into various sections of your mouth. This is important because you need to make sure you can reach the spaces farther in the back of your throat where the tonsil stones reside.

2) Go to your local food store and buy some Grape Fruit Seed Extract (GSE) and add 2~3 drops of GSE in your water-pik reservoir. GSE acts as a natural antibiotic that will help prevent the growth of future invaders.

Courtesy of ezinearticles.com by Luke B Tillman-Young