To collect a throat sample, stick out your tongue, find your tonsils, and swab back and forth. Swab your throat before your nose! Wash your hands and refrain from eating or drinking for 30 minutes ...
Not only are tonsil stones a "thing," they're far more prevalent than they're discussed. One woman details her year-long ...
Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons hoped to find a more user-friendly test for strep throat than swabbing the tonsils directly, but instead discovered that the swab has to touch the tonsils to ...
No matter how well you brush your teeth or how many breath mints you pop, you can’t quite seem to shake that stubborn case of bad breath. What’s going on? Many things can cause bad breath, but one of ...
As anyone who's ever gone to the doctor with a sore throat can attest, throat swabs are the pits. "Tonsil swabbing is terrible - it makes people gag," said Dr. Jonathan Lee, an ear, nose and throat ...
Jake Parks is a freelance science writer and editor for Discover Magazine, who covers everything from the mysteries of the cosmos to the latest in medical research. View Full Profile. If you’ve ever ...
To collect a throat sample, stick out your tongue, find your tonsils, and swab back and forth. Swab your throat before your nose! Wash your hands and refrain from eating or drinking for 30 minutes ...