A long-time smoker had a green tongue and hair growth after taking antibiotics. Photo: Courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio: A unique case of a reaction to antibiotics with smoking in the United States has been reported in which a heavy smoker developed a green tongue and hair-like bumps on it.
The 64-year-old man, whose name has not been released, is a resident of Ohio and a smoker. After she started taking antibiotics, within just two weeks, the color of the tongue started to change and turned dark green.
He had a gum infection after which the doctors prescribed a course of ‘Clindamycin’. But under its side effect, the color of his language started changing. Although the report is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it lacks details.
It is not known how long the victim has been smoking and whether the reaction is caused by smoking or the effect of antibiotics. It has not been told whether the tongue has become green from cigarettes and medicine. But this is a strange phenomenon in which hair-like bumps have also appeared on the tongue. They are probably caused by food residues and bacteria.
Some experts believe that the hair-like bumps are made of keratin, which is also a protein common in the human body. It is believed that due to smoking, bacteria has stuck to the tongue and hair has started to fall out from them.
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