{"id":9158,"date":"2008-01-03T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/tonsillolith\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:23","slug":"tonsillolith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/tonsillolith\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonsillolith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just learned about a medical condition which affects me: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tonsillolith\">Tonsillolith<\/a>. Well, not so much as a condition, but something which can affect you.<\/p>\n<p>And here I was thinking this was just &#8220;a bit of food that got stuck in the back of my throat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t normally have bad breath, but every once in a while I&#8217;ll have a feeling like there is something caught in my throat, and removing a bit of what I thought was just food sorts it out.<\/p>\n<p>Huh. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as: Tonsil Stones<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.actaitalica.it\/issues\/2004\/5-04\/mesolella2.pdf<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/39213\/Small-stinky-whitish-balls-coming-out-of-my-throat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just learned about a medical condition which affects me: Tonsillolith. Well, not so much as a condition, but something which can affect you. And here I was thinking this was just &#8220;a bit of food that got stuck in the back of my throat&#8221;. Interesting. No, I don&#8217;t normally have bad breath, but\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}