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Hi , i've been coughing for over a month and the last 3 or 4 days started coughing up tiny soft white balls , these are not coming from my tonsils hel?
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......: when you look at the tonsils, do you have the balls embedded? if so, you have tonsil stones secondary to cryptic tonsil that are completely benign.
Answered 7/9/2014
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