My nutritionist outed me – in front of the entire class. A most embarrassing secret that I hadn’t perceived as a real health issue – you know, one of these happenings that you think will just go away or fix itself. “You have a white coating on the back of your tongue. This could be bacterial or fungal…”
I immediately hit Dr. Google when I got home. Shielding my research from my housemates, I perused the ‘white tongue’ image catalogue displaying varying states of viral ridden tongues. A chore for only the most hardened of stomachs!
I heard Ma’s voice resound in my head “GARGLE with warm salt water”. Ma would always insist that we do this when we had sore throats – such a distasteful tasks but a sworn home remedy. Of course, advice I ignored in my adult years yet now I have found myself resorting back to this natural anti-bacterial remedy.
I now:
- GARGLE with warm salt water every 2 days or so.
- RINSE my mouth out after I floss (about 1/week. I’m not the most diligent flosser)
- SOAK my toothbrush attachment in the remaining unused salt water
- BATH in epsom salts and throw in crystals in hope of mystic fortune
It was only 1 month ago that I established this routine and I no longer have an unnatural fuzzy fungal tongue, my throat glands have not been inflamed nor have I had to endure mysterious sore throats associated with my condition.
So when in doubt, rinse with salt then spit it out!
Thank you for reading. ∼ Free Me Fibro
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Gotta be the Epson salts—maybe the moon phase too 😏
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Mystic crystals of the universe!
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