How to treat chapped lips

Usually, staying up late, drinking, and eating spicy food can easily lead to getting inflamed. If the liver fire or stomach fire is too strong, it will cause sore corners of the mouth. In fact, sore corners of the mouth are clinically called angular cheilitis. The disease is most likely to occur in spring and autumn, and once it occurs, it will have a greater impact on the patient's life, especially when eating.

In fact, chapped lips are clinically divided into different types. Not all chapped lips are caused by getting angry. Some patients are infected with pathogenic bacteria. However, no matter what type of chapped lips it is, you must pay attention to treatment. So, how to treat chapped lips?

1. Systemic treatment:

Angular cheilitis caused by vitamin deficiency can be treated by supplementing with vitamin B2, folic acid, etc.

If you have other systemic diseases such as anemia, diabetes, etc., you should actively treat these systemic diseases.

2. Local treatment:

When a scab is formed, it should be removed by local wet compresses and applied with antibiotic ointment.

Dietary treatment for sore mouth corners:

1. Eat more fresh vegetables, radishes, carrots and various fruits, and eat appropriate amounts of foods rich in B vitamins such as soy products, milk, eggs, lean meat, animal liver, etc. to avoid vitamin B deficiency.

2. Don’t lick the corners of your mouth frequently. If you just spray lotion on your face, it will bring the moisture in the skin into the air, making your face drier. I think everyone understands this. Similarly, if you keep licking your chapped lips with your tongue, they will become drier and chapped, which will cause the corners of your mouth and lips to become chapped.

3. If you find that you have sore corners of your mouth, you can apply some vitamin E or Vaseline on the corners of your mouth and lips to moisturize them. Lip balm can also be used, but it is best not to use any color.

4. If the corners of your mouth are cracked and bleeding, wash them with warm water first, wait until they are dry, and then apply some antibiotic ointment, such as gold toxin.

5. When the wound begins to form a scab, do not tear it off forcibly. Let it fall off naturally. How to deal with chapped lips

6. If there is a serious infection at the corners of the mouth, such as the area of ​​the sore corners expanding, the skin peeling and ulceration, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

The above is a detailed introduction on how to treat sore corners of the mouth. In order to avoid sore corners of the mouth, I hope that all friends will pay attention to eating more fruits and vegetables, especially pay attention to supplementing vitamin B. If sore corners of the mouth occur, be careful not to open your mouth too wide when eating to avoid tearing and bleeding at the corners of the mouth.