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I have a yellow coating on the sides of my tongue what could this be?

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Check immunity: Thrush is considered an opportunistic infection, meaning it will generally only infect people who have an immune system weakened by infection, medications or primary immune deficiency. Oral antifungal medications are available by prescription.

Answered 2/10/2015

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