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I've had these white things stuck on my tonsils but they pop out on their own and i taste blood is that why i have holes in my tonsils?
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Cryptic Tonsils: Sounds like white blood cells and inflammation that collect in crypts in your tonsils very commonly. Tonsils are lymphoid tissue that fight infection.
Answered 4/7/2012
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