/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10963765
Okay guys I'm an expert. Had tonsil stones for year, and no longer do. Solution is simple. Basic stuff first: Your tonsils trap particles of food inside their crypts, that's what tonsils are supposed to do. Your job is to clean out the crypts everyday. How? I use a hockey squeeze bottle with a waterpik tip inserted into the nozzle. Your hand aims and propels the stream with gentle pressure to not hurt the tonsils and yet precise and forceful enough to flush out crypts of all food particles. I can flush one tonsil in about 20 seconds with the assist of a steel chopstick to nudge open/angle crypts to the stream of water. I have about 5 crypts of various sizes on each tonsil. Don't use waterpik. Any kind of waterpik is going to cut the delicate tonsil tissue and you will bleed and get an infection - trust me. I've tried a variety of waterpiks. The best type of stream is delivered by a squeeze bottle, $2 in the sporting goods section. One or two generous squirts per crypt is all you need. Water is the best cleanser. The simple introduction of water into the crypt will displace these tiny food particles - they are not lodged in there like stubborn tonsil stones. The flow of water is enough to carry these particles out. Tonsil cleaning to me is in the same category as flossing teeth, in both procedures you are mechanically removing food particles stuck in your mouth. Reminder: I'm not flushing out tonsil stones; I'm flushing out bits of food in order to prevent tonsil stones from forming. Sometimes the food particles are so tiny I don't even see them, they can be liquid food too. However over the course of months these tiny particles accumulate and then bacteria joins the party, resulting in tonsil stones. If you flush out your tonsil crypts every day, you will never see tonsil stones. No food in tonsils = no tonsil stones.