Heather posted:
Yes - once. It was a really, really severe case of thrush, all over 
the baby's inside cheeks and tongue, and yes, in the middle it was 
green.

It cleared up with meds.

My question:
Are docs looking for signs of yeast and/or other types of candida in human
mouths anymore?  I ask because a couple of years ago I watched a Hungarian
language film on TV just because it was on.  My language skills are rusty
and they talk really fast, but I caught the twenty-something gal character
asking her friend about the guy she was being set up with for a blind date
"Is he sick or something?  His tongue is white?"  So the younger generation
in that European culture is somewhat aware, though my first thought was so
not kind about what else she could catch.

When I watch singers on TV, such as on American Idol or even Celine Dion, I
see their white coated tongues. 

When my granddaughter had her single course of antibiotics for an ear
infection before they were driving over the 4500' elevation mountain pass a
year ago, she developed a white tongue afterwards.   She has been on
probiotics ever since and her tongue is nice and pink again, but it took
awhile on her supplements.  When I see adults with a nice pink tongue, I
notice they are really healthy people.

So, other then Naturopathic docs and Chinese Medicine herbalists, are
pediatricians looking at tongues for a health diagnosis any longer?  Or is
that one of the things that has been discarded because a white tongue is so
the norm now?
(And I am not asking about a milk tongue on a baby that has just detached
from breastfeeding.)

Judy

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