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Been battling a nasty cold past 3 days. today i noticed my tongue looks pale, kinda whitish. there's nothing to scrape off. doesn't look like thrush.
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White tongue: The tongue is known to have many variations with pigmenting, size, appearance, & not always due to disease. Causes of tongue that looks patchy include: lichen planus (responds to steroids), white sponge nevus (familial, benign, permanent), smoker's leukoplakia (2% risk of cancer, needs biopsy), hairy leukoplakia (due to epsteinbarr virus), warts (due to papillomavirus), "thrush" (rx antifungals).
Answered 5/19/2017
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