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Tongue Is Cracked and WhiteQuestion by Anonymous on 12/14/2007
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand)
Take some 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda with 1/2 glass of water three times a day on an empty stomach with a pinch of potassium bicarbonate or potassium citrate will help. Often you may need larger dose, but this can only be recommended upon a noticeable improvement of the mouth conditions.
It takes about 1-2 weeks for condition to improve. The diets of high protein I have seen to be the cause, and now I guess it is coming with a vengeance. So it will take awhile to reduce this problem.
The fungus tend to thrive in acid environments, so just taking plenty of bicarbonates, and avoiding all acid forming food especially fried foods, bread, pizza, sandwiches, pastries, sugar, white flour, will really really help. Just make sure the diet is 80% leafy green vegetables and whole fresh fruits. No canned, no prepared food and absolutely no snacks. Beans and legumes are taken on once a week or less than 10% of diets. Too much tends to cause a large buildup of oxalates, which of course causes kidney stones, especially when the body's bicarbonates are low.
It is funny that there is no current medical literature dealing acid tongue or even acid tongue remedy, while I have to face this problem quite often. Are the medical practices getting ivory tower
Replied by Vicky (Miami, Fl) on 10/30/2012
I would like to also recommend getting the prescribed mouthwash from your Dentist to give you a little boost to try to fight this bad breath. That's what I did and it encouraged me to the everything I mentioned above and I have 85% better smelling breath than before and it's been 6 months since I started this regime.
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