Hello everyone! This month’s post will definitely be the eschatological post of the blog, because I’m going to talk about two topics that are not very nice and about which not many people talk about. It may happen to you and you do not dare to talk about it (as I said in the first post: everyone talks shamelessly about overweight, but there are many other problems about which people keep silent). It may happen to you and you do not even know it (I have a friend who sometimes coughed the balls of caseum and thought they were pieces of lung, WTF !!!). Or it may happen to someone in your environment. Anyway, let’s go to it.

What is caseum? It is the official name of stinky white balls that form in the tonsils. According to information I have collected from doctors + internet (many times I do not know who of both know more or less, because different persons and pages say totally different things), caseum is made up of remains of food, snot and other organic waste. If you often had angina as a child (as in my case) it is more likely that you will have “holes” in your tonsils, which are called “tonsillar crypts”. Where there is a hole, it is easier for the caseum to form. And it can not be avoided because every day we eat, and the mucus from the nose goes down to the throat. What can be avoided is to get sick so often, with a good diet high in vitamin C and good clothes. I have not had tonsillitis for many years.

The problem with caseum is that it accumulates in tonsillar crypts and can cause bad breath. Well, this is a controversial issue, because according to my experience and what I have read in many forums it does not cause bad breath outwards (that is, others do not notice it) but inwards (when the ball gets very big, it goes out alone from the hole and you swallow it, then you notice it). Or maybe it causes bad breath out when the ball is too big and goes out of the crypt.

What can be done and what I do is, every day when I use my beloved oral irrigator, point to the tonsils to “rinse” them and help remove mucus and possible food debris. This helps a lot, although I have not been able to eliminate the fact that I have caseum, it forms much slower and in lesser quantity. Also, once a week, I carefully squeeze them with a cotton swab to see if something comes out. We must be very careful with this, because it is a very delicate area. Once I did it with my finger (after washing my hands well and without long nails, obviously) and I got a wound, it started to bleed … so do it with a cotton swab and very carefully, also be careful not to swallow the cotton swab! :)))

So here is my advice: follow a good hygiene with the irrigator and check weekly. I have consulted with people of confidence and I really do not have bad breath doing this (obviously remember that you can also have bad breath for other reasons, such as cavities or gingivitis, but I already talked about it in another post).

Let’s move on to another, even more disgusting subject. Black holes around the anus. Yes, there are, it is in general accumulated oil, like that of the nose. Many do not know they have them because what is down there is a mystery to them (how many people have never looked at the whole “intimate area” with a mirror?). Apart from that, depending on your hairiness, you cannot see there very well either. Well, I tell you that it is very common to have pimples formed around the anus, in the same way that they form in the nose. It looks as if you have a granulated skin around the anus, sometimes there is a little black dot indicating that it is the head of the pimple. Do not confuse these pimples with fistulas, hemorrhoids and other anal problems that may require medical-surgical intervention. These are simply pimples, which most of the time are not problematic and you do not even notice you have them. I discovered them when I had intimate hair removal with electrolysis (there were not many hairs there, but I did not want to have any for hygiene reasons). Only once I had a quite big pimple very close to the anus and I could notice it when going to the bathroom. So I “cleaned” my skin there, just as I do with black spots on my nose :)))))) When I finished I put some betadine.

My advice is that you take them off only if they bother you, since it is not an aesthetic problem and normally, they are not problematic. If you want to do a “cleaning”, you can do it yourself, with a mirror, a little flexibility and, especially, very clean hands and nails! You can tissue to do the procedure and then put betadine. The same day you do it you may notice some discomfort because it is a very sensitive place.

I hope this post will be helpful, the next month I will post something more pleasant !! :)))

* UPDATE: There is already a laser surgery that removes tonsil crypts without removing the tonsils. For now, few ENT specialists perform this surgery, here is a video about it: