Black Tongue – Mystery Solved?
In March of this year, my husband (Dave), my youngest son (Brad), and I took a trip to Cuba. One morning, near the end of the week, Dave woke up with a black tongue. It was very bizarre and kind of freaked us out a bit. Upon giving it some thought, we concluded that it must have been from the black beans he’d eaten for supper the night before. Since Brad and I did not partake of the black beans, it made sense that Dave was the only one with a black tongue.
Oddly, several days later, after we were home, I woke up one morning with a similar black tongue. Now I was really freaked out. I certainly hadn’t eaten anything black and this had never happened to either of us before. Had we contracted some weird Cuban disease or something? We had our shots before the trip.
With some serious brushing with a toothbrush, I was able to remove the black from my tongue. It didn’t seem too serious, but it was very strange nonetheless. Several weeks later, it happened to me again. Now it was really starting to bother me. It was no longer an isolated incident.
I searched for Black Tongue on the internet and actually found several sites devoted to the topic. Seems Black Tongue is the result of some kind of vitamin deficiency or something. As well as the tongue being black, it referred to the tongue as looking ‘hairy’. Well, neither of us had hairy looking tongues, and I highly doubt that within the same week we both suddenly became deficient in vitamins resulting in a weird black tongue.
So what could be causing it? What had changed in our lives that could have this bizarre effect on our tongues? I thought about it and wondered if it could have anything to do with the Pepto Bismol tablets we had picked up for our Cuba trip. It seemed like a long shot, and we couldn’t remember for sure whether we had taken the tablets on the nights before we were plagued with black tongues or not (besides Pepto Bismol tablets are pink, not black).
So, this morning I woke up with a black tongue, yet again. AND what do you think I took right before going to sleep last night? You got it – 2 Pepto Bismol tablets!
Mystery solved?
Maybe. I might have to conduct a test and see what happens.
In March of this year, my husband (Dave), my youngest son (Brad), and I took a trip to Cuba. One morning, near the end of the week, Dave woke up with a black tongue. It was very bizarre and kind of freaked us out a bit. Upon giving it some thought, we concluded that it must have been from the black beans he’d eaten for supper the night before. Since Brad and I did not partake of the black beans, it made sense that Dave was the only one with a black tongue.
Oddly, several days later, after we were home, I woke up one morning with a similar black tongue. Now I was really freaked out. I certainly hadn’t eaten anything black and this had never happened to either of us before. Had we contracted some weird Cuban disease or something? We had our shots before the trip.
With some serious brushing with a toothbrush, I was able to remove the black from my tongue. It didn’t seem too serious, but it was very strange nonetheless. Several weeks later, it happened to me again. Now it was really starting to bother me. It was no longer an isolated incident.
I searched for Black Tongue on the internet and actually found several sites devoted to the topic. Seems Black Tongue is the result of some kind of vitamin deficiency or something. As well as the tongue being black, it referred to the tongue as looking ‘hairy’. Well, neither of us had hairy looking tongues, and I highly doubt that within the same week we both suddenly became deficient in vitamins resulting in a weird black tongue.
So what could be causing it? What had changed in our lives that could have this bizarre effect on our tongues? I thought about it and wondered if it could have anything to do with the Pepto Bismol tablets we had picked up for our Cuba trip. It seemed like a long shot, and we couldn’t remember for sure whether we had taken the tablets on the nights before we were plagued with black tongues or not (besides Pepto Bismol tablets are pink, not black).
So, this morning I woke up with a black tongue, yet again. AND what do you think I took right before going to sleep last night? You got it – 2 Pepto Bismol tablets!
Mystery solved?
Maybe. I might have to conduct a test and see what happens.
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