What are these lumps?

[jewlies]

In the back of my mouth, near my tonsils there are little white-ish lumps.(i guess you could call them lumps). I took a Q-tip and got one out one time and it smelled really foul, almost like vomit, and broke apart as if it was a piece of food that had been stuck there for a while.They usually make it painful to swallow, but not always.You can see it sort of stuck to the side of my tonsil in the back of my mouth.And if i get one out, soon enough another one sort of "apears" there in about a week or two.
they are about the size of pea.Please help me,What are they?

[National Jewish]

There are different possible answers to your question.

1. This could be a "pocket" near the tonsil where food collects, but is not infected.
2. This could be an active infection in a "pocket".
3. This could be an abscess.

I would suggest seeing your family doctor who can figure this out by either looking at the back of your throat or performing a culture of the material.

[SarcSurvivor]

One possibility is a cheese-like gunk that sometimes accumulates in little pockets in the tonsils. A cough can dislodge this and bring it up. This accumulation can be a source of bacteria and debris and cause recurrent tonsillitis.

Try searching the internet for terms like tonsil stone, tonsilloliths (alternate spelling tonsillith) and tonsil calculus.