has anyone gotten thrush on their tongue after surgery? Is this common?

Are you certain its thrush? I thought I had it post op (my son had it as a baby and what I had seemed similar) but it actually turned out to be dehydration. White coated tongue can also be a symptom of dehydration, which is common post op. Google white tongue dehydration.

I'm post op day 4 and I think I have it. I tried to brush it off but it won't come off. Other than looking nasty no other symptoms.

I have my first follow up appt on Wednesday so will find out then.

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It may not be thrush. It's often what happens when you are on a liquid diet. Because you aren't chewing food, which scrapes across your tongue in the process of eating, you develop kind of a film. Gross, but usually not thrush and nothing that won't go away when you can eat food again. Have you tried a tongue scraper? Brushing didn't work for me, but a tongue scraper got about 70% of the gross off. As soon as I was chewing or even on soft foods again, my tongue went back to its normal pink self. Thrush can be caused by some antibiotics that throw off the chemistry in your mouth (kind of the same way it works with yeast infections of the lady parts), but in adults a lot of times it happens more with people who are immune-compromised. Not saying you def don't have thrush, but I had exactly what you described during the liquid phase, and I had it once before when I went on a slimfast for a month diet, and the mechanical act of chewing food fixed it almost immediately.

Hmmm, I guess I don't know. Only half of my tongue is white and it isn't sore or anything, but looks really disgusting. I constantly feel like I have a dry mouth and am thirsty. I am still on full liquid stage. I did get IV antibiotics, so that's why I wondered. Brushing did nothing.

I had a white coated tongue for the first week after surgery. Drinking different things helped plus brushing the tongue and using mouthwash.

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