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White tongue, dry mouth, frothy saliva

For last one year or more, I have been experiencing this white dry tongue.

Whiteness is at the back of the tongue like in White coating in this picture
http://healthfoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/White-Coated-Tongue.jpg

However the coating is more prominent towards the back of the tongue. It is not very thick, but it smears evening over back of my tongue. I scrape it every morning and it is back, without fail, by evening, everyday for last 1 year. That is what is worrying me.

No real burning or sore after I scrape it. There is no other white patch as such in my mouth. Top of my mouth has Yellow stain covering half of my mouth ceiling. Mouth keeps very dry..even feels like i have put some LA sometimes. Sometimes mouth also gives powdery feel.

I showed it to doctor and doctor said it is not thrush. He said it might be because of GERD + Nasal Dip.

But because it has been happening EVERYDAY without fail, I was wondering if it was GERD.

Recently, I have started having some tingling on front of my tongue, where is no real coating on my front tongue and I dont even brush it there so much.

Yesterday only, i found small, infact tiny, bumps cluster on my inner cheeks just adjacent to my gums.

Pls. suggest what this can be.
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Have you resolved the white tongue frosty saliva issue? I’m experiencing all the same things.
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Do u had a risky exposure like everyone here
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Hai rahulmeds I too experience the same I am too much scared whatever u mentioned same thing happening with me.pls reply is that really due to std or postnasal drip and gerd. I have gerd symptoms also
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And one more thing I never had a penetrative just used perform mutual masturbation with another guy and after exposure to mutual masturbation after 9months I tested with Western blot which results came negative and after that now I have this dry mouth white tongue and bumps on back of the throat
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I'm experiencing the same thing I had unprotected sex a while back and just recently I had oral sex with a  girl then I tested months after for hiv all came back negative it doesn't seem thick like oral thrush it's just dry I do breath out my pith a lot wen sleeping and I do smoke so can this be the cause
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Have u found what it might be
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I have had this for two year now. I earlier had piles problem so that it must be because of that, but now I found out that it could be Oral thrush.
What I have:
1. Every morning a powdery dry taste in mouth
2. Diffused layer which is hard to brush off. when it comes off it comes in yellowish color
3. White layer build over the day. Eating regular keeps it under check.
4. Anus Itching
5. Gastric and Bloating
6. Once I lost significant amount of weight (10Kg) very suddenly. At that time, this white tongue was at its worst. Now, after I have started cleaning the tongue (as it seems), I am gained back much of that weight. And it is not how i feel, it was all measured.

What I DO NOT HAVE is:
1. Whites patches (its diffused white layer towards back of my tongue, not a patch as described for thrush or shown in pictures)
2. Any redness/bleeding after I brush off the white layer
3. No white patch anywhere else in mouth
4. No pain - swallowing or eating


I am scared to think that it is Oral thrush (for reasons that I came across online). I had a risky exposure two years back and got tested for it. But this problem kind of coincides with that exposure which makes me even more nervous like hell...

I seems to have passed this on to my partner as she is also having Anus Itching and a whiter tongue than she usually seems to have. Can this be passed on my kissing or intercourse?  I am so damn scared.
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Hi dude,
I hv got same white tongue no pain frothy saliva and dry mounth.. Since 3 month it started 2 month after a protected encounter with CSW... Please share how u got cured... I'm scared need ur help
Have u got cured or u found the cause
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Do you have dry mouth?
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Nope, went to the ENT doc on Thursday. They shoved the cam down my throat by way of nose. It sucked. But couldn't tell me what was wrong. He thought I was having a dental issue. I've cut back on beer to and my tongue has gotten a lot better.
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Have you already been cured from the white tongue?
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I had the white coated tongue problem after kissing someone and I knew his breath was offensive but I didn't want to be rude but being nice transferred his germs to me and it was so toxic I have had white coated tongue and dry mouth/throat every since.  There is no easy way to overcome this, however a Doctor will tell you that white mouth is normal when you know better.  I tried eating a few cloves of garlic with some seafood and they are quite spicy but they kill the yeast but the overgrowth of the yeast is called candida albicans.  Usually a healthy gut flora keeps them at bay but if your immune system is compromised (Too many antibiotics over the years plus that Venti Caramel frappuccino w/ whipped cream and caramel sauce each morning over the years) help them breed and overgrow.  His infection was so toxic that it caused them to grow rapidly.  Candida have a biofilm that stop you from killing them and most
antifungals give you toxic symptoms of headache and stomach aches.  Some doctors can treat with a non absorbed antibiotic w/ antifungal, however when you are killing yeast naturally or otherwise  you can take Psyllium Husk & Bentonite Shakes to absorb the extra toxins they give off from dying and take a laxative to immediately remove the yeast out of your system because the yeast are hard to kill off & yeast will feed off of dead yeast and get stronger & reproduce.  Parasites are hard to remove but not impossible. You have to commit to the garlic breath every day, deal with the headaches from die off if you don't P&B shake, and take vitamins and minerals and also a probiotic each evening. If healing naturally take the garlic with caprylic acid, and a biofilm buster and also take echinacea & goldenseal to cause your own immune system to fight the infection. After killing the excess yeast you need to heal your leaky gut by taking senna, or bitter herbs.  Good Luck
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Have you found out what it was??
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