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Should i be worried about the white stuff on my tonsils?
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Usually not: If no pain, fevers, or trouble swallowing, "white stuff on tonsils" is usually just sebaceous secretions or cellular debris that your tonsils are collecting, filtering, in doing their job. Nothing wrong, nothing to treat.
Answered 9/28/2016
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