What is the reason for the red circle around the child's mouth?

There is a circle of redness around the child's mouth. This phenomenon is medically called angular cheilitis. There are many reasons for angular cheilitis. The weather is relatively dry, and children have poor self-control and often like to lick the corners of their mouths with their tongues. Such repeated stimulation can easily cause the skin to become dry and cracked, leading to redness and swelling. In addition, if the child lacks vitamins, this situation will also occur. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize nutrition in time and provide good treatment in time.

What is the reason for the red circle around the child's mouth?

1. Autumn and winter are windy and rainy, the climate is dry, and the skin is prone to cracking.

In late autumn and early winter, the weather is relatively dry, and people's lips and the skin around them are prone to cracking.

2. The diet is too refined and picky.

Some children have bad habits of partiality and picky eating, eat less vegetables and fruits, lack vitamin C, B2 and zinc, which makes them more likely to have dry and chapped corners of the mouth.

3. Bad living habits, often licking the corners of the mouth.

Some babies have a habitual action when they feel their lips are dry, that is, they like to lick their lips with their tongue. When the climate is dry, the saliva evaporates quickly, and the more you lick your lips, the drier they become, causing them to crack and become inflamed.

What to do if your child has angular cheilitis

1. Folk remedies

(1) Wash the affected area at the corner of your mouth with rice water three times a day.

(2) Clean the affected corners of your mouth with light salt water. After they are dry, apply the pre-ground vitamin B2 to the corners of your mouth, once after meals and before bedtime. It will generally take three days to take effect.

(3) Take vitamin B2, 2-4 mg three times a day. In addition, take vitamin B complex, 1-2 tablets three times a day.

(4) You can pierce the cod liver oil tube, squeeze out the oil and apply it to the sore corners of your mouth. You can also crush the vitamin B2 into a fine powder and sprinkle it on the affected area.

(5) If you are deficient in vitamin B2 and cod liver oil pills, you can also use the overflow water from steamed rice or persimmon cream to treat it. Apply them to the affected area twice a day and it can also be cured.

(6) If the corners of the mouth are cracked and bleeding, the wound should be washed with warm water or salt water first. After it is slightly dry, apply antibiotic ointment, such as chloramphenicol ointment, or use cod liver oil riboflavin paste and take riboflavin orally. When scabs begin to form on the wound, do not tear off the dry scabs forcibly. Let them heal on their own and then fall off. If combined with Candida albicans infection, 5% clotrimazole ointment can be applied externally.

2. Treatment Misunderstandings

(1) Keep giving your child water

Letting children drink a lot of water in a short period of time will indeed have a "diuretic" effect, but it will also reduce the body's water content and aggravate the dehydration condition.

(2) Applying gentian violet to your child on your own

Applying gentian violet will make the corners of the mouth drier, aggravate the cracks, and even cause blisters, ulcers, erosions and whitening around the child's mouth, and even bleeding.

(3) Apply toothpaste, lotion, or balm to your child

These may cause secondary local skin infection.

Correct approach: If you find your child's lips are dry, apply a little borax glycerin, lip balm or cooking oil to prevent cracking, and take vitamin B2, 1-2 tablets 3 times a day. If erosion and inflammation have occurred, apply 75% alcohol or 0.2% iodine to the corners of your mouth twice a day.