White lumps in the throat with an unpleasant odor: what is it?
Small lumps that sometimes enter the mouth under certain circumstances are nothing more than tonsillar plugs or stones that form in special recesses of the tonsils - lacunae.
They can have different shapes, sizes, colors and textures, depending on their composition.
As a rule, people note white, slightly less often yellowish or even grayish bad-smelling balls. Sometimes they have a soft consistency, in other cases they are quite dense, which is due to the presence of calcium compounds in their composition.
White lumps formed in the lacunae of the tonsils are formed from aged and exfoliated cells of the mucous membrane, a small amount of food residues and various types of bacteria.
As a rule, these are staphylococci, streptococci, somewhat less frequently chlamydia and other microorganisms, that is, mainly representatives of opportunistic flora, which are constantly present in the oral cavity of every person.
Sometimes they contain pus. In such situations, they acquire a yellow tint and a characteristic odor.
When they appear, a person may feel significant discomfort, manifested by:
- sore throat;
- feeling of the presence of a foreign body behind the tonsils;
- bad breath.
Although often the formation of formations does not manifest itself in any way. A person becomes aware of their presence only when he coughs up part of the cork.
