Newborns with thick white tongue coating may be caused by physiological reasons, indigestion, oral candida infection and so on.
1. Physiological reasons: newborns are mainly breastfed or formula-fed, and feeding is often more frequent, and because they are smaller, they usually can’t clean up their oral hygiene, leading to the accumulation of breast milk or milk powder on their tongues, which can cause the symptoms.
2. Indigestion: It may be caused by overfeeding, resulting in breast milk or formula not being digested in a timely manner, thus causing symptoms, which are often accompanied by a sour taste in the mouth and loss of appetite.
3. Oral Candida infection: Prevalent in infants and young children as well as immunocompromised people, it can easily lead to curd-like white patches in the oral cavity, which is manifested as a thick white tongue coating.
Newborns with thick white tongue, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.