Question Anyone's tongue ever turn black?

[MacDuyver]

Was recently diving in the Philippines and woke up to a (mildly hungover) shock the next day. I was brushing my teeth and spit out dark charcoal gray foam. I stuck my tongue out and the entire surface was pitch black. I'd done two tanks the day before,neither of them tasted smoky, deepest dive being a shipwreck at 90ft ish, so I poured over my DAN dive med guide convinced I had some sort of weird DCS. Found zero mention in anything at all of a black tongue, and on closer inspection it was just the srface, no discoloration anywhere else on my tongue. I used my toothbrush to remove all of it fairly easily, and it hasnt come back. but I'm still wondering why the hell my tongue turned black.

 

[Ghost95]

Alcohol and possible fungal colonization of your tongue.

Look it up in relation to drinking and not diving and i think you'll find a little more info.

Hangover and a harry tongue.

 

[astr0b0y]

I feel like we can’t be cabin buddies in the future…

 

[MacDuyver]

Alcohol and possible fungal colonization of your tongue.

Look it up in relation to drinking and not diving and i think you'll find a little more info.

Hangover and a harry tongue.

gross. Why does it happen with diving and not regularly?

 

[Endler's]

Take any Pepto? Why Are My Poop and Tongue Black After Taking Pepto Bismol?

 

[Zef]

...so I poured over my DAN dive med guide convinced I had some sort of weird DCS. Found zero mention in anything at all of a black tongue...

"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras."
-Dr. Theodore Englar Woodward


-Z

 

[Doctorfish]

Thrush, fungus infection.

 

[MacDuyver]

Thrush, fungus infection.

That’s simple enough. Do you think it’s just coincidence w the dive?

 

[Guille G]

You haven’t been licking your fingers to turn the pages on an ancient treaty on Comedy written by Aristotle, have you? That has been know to be problematic…

 

[Searcaigh]

That’s simple enough. Do you think it’s just coincidence w the dive?

Possibly, are you using your own regulator? When did you last clean it?