I've had it for years. Then I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I tried changing my diet to suit the diabetes - low carbs, whole wheats, leafy greens - and my IBS flared up so badly. It was bad before I started taking my metformin/glucofage but it got increasingly worse when I changed my diet for the diabetes.
Newborns are also coated with a thick, pasty, white material called vernix caseosa (made up of the fetus' shed skin cells and skin gland secretions), most of which will be washed off during the baby's first bath.
This coating may be differentiated from the very common off-white discoloration of the tongue associated with breast milk or infant formula debris by several means: (1) an oral Candida infection is a very bright white color -- milk debris is an off-white color; (2) oral Candida infections may also involve the buccal surface, inner lip area, and ...