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What causes are there for a perpetually white tongue? I've worked with a baby, now 3 1/2 months old, who has had a white tongue almost from the start. Her mother has had no soreness beyond some initial discomfort, it hasn't responded to 2 or 3 rounds of gentian violet (widely spaced, never more than 4 days in a row), and her doctor is insistent that it isn't thrush. "I see lots of normal babies with tongues like that, and it isn't thrush," he says. "I think it's just taste buds". But it's nothing like the faintly whitish cast that many people have to their tongues. It's clearly a coating.
The baby has always been a finicky eater. Rationales are easy: oversupply, unfamiliarity with bottles (when mom is at work), genetics. But I can't help wondering if that tongue coating affects her willingness to eat. Thoughts?
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY USA
www.wiessinger.baka.com
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