What are Chapped Lips?

A health article about chronic chapped from Your Health Online the A to Z directory of dealing with Health Problems & nutritional Self Care Strategies

Severe and chronic chapped lips are a result of very dry skin on the lips.

Dry skin occurs when the moisture, or water, content of the skin is decreased for any reason.

The skin on our lips is actually mucous membrane, so for them to remain smooth and chap free is a bit of a challenge.

Some of the common symptoms of chapped lips

When the Lips are severe and chronically chapped they usually have the following qualities

roughness,

dryness,

redness,

peeling,

cracking,

sensitivity and

tenderness.

What Causes chapped lips

Common cause of severe and chronic chapped lip are allergic reaction to cosmetics, skin infections, extreme weather conditions like excess sun and wind exposure, biting of the lips or a vitamin B deficiency.

If dryness, cracking or soreness of the lip has already developed, it is especially important to use a medicated product to provide relief.

Use a lip care product as part of a daily regimen too.

Daily treatment of the lip helps maintain a smooth feel and appearance, moisturize your lips and maintain their healthy condition.

Some of the common causes of chapped lips are :

• A lack of essential fatty acids and/or B vitamins, poor diet and dehydration.
• Allergic reaction to cosmetics like lipsticks, lip gloss.
• Extreme weather conditions like excess sun and wind exposure.

A product with a penetrating analgesic can soothe the lip quickly and effectively.

Massage dry lip with lip balm or petroleum jelly.

You can also try coating your lip with skin moisturizer, vitamin E oil or aloe vera gel.

These greasy products help keep your lip properly moisturized.

Treatment/Therapy:

1. Avoid going out in dry, cold weather without putting on lip balm or lipstick.
2. Keep lips soft by not licking them.
3. Try to keep the air in your home humid.
4. Use a sunscreen on your lips when outside in sunny weather.
   Avoid excessive sun exposure.
5. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
6. Drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration.
7. Take vitamin B, C foods in diet.
8. Hot water fomentation, followed by a mixture of Vaseline and honey applied on the lips at least thrice a week will prevent lips from chapping.
9. Give dry, flaky lip the brush-off; Once a week exfoliate your lip. Wet a soft toothbrush and gently brush your lip with a circular motion.
10. When participating in outdoor activity, use a lip balm that contains a sun block to prevent sunburn.
11. If lip become chapped, avoid wearing lipsticks while lip are recovering as drying products in color pigments may irritate chapped lip.

Self Care strategies for Living with chapped lips

With Glycerine and Milk Cream you can cure severe and chronic chapped dry lips

1. Mix 2 drops of glycerine with 1 tsp of cream on the top of milk and apply to lip to cure the chapped lip and keep overnight to get smooth and shiny lip. Helps to cure dry chapped lip.
2. Grind rose petals with cream on the top of milk and apply on lip to cure the severe and chronic chapped lip. Helps to cure severe and chronic chapped lip.

Mentholatum are the remedy for severe chapped lips

Before you go to bed at night rub some Mentholatum on your chapped lip. Use as much as you would if you were applying chap stick.

When you wake in the morning the dryness is gone. Works especially well with cracked and severe chapped lip.

This remedy leaves your lip soft and supple.

Petroleum jelly is the best Home Remedy to cure the severe and chronic Chapped Lips

Apply petroleum jelly to your lips 3-5 times a day. The great part is that it's clear and thin, so it looks great over your lipstick because it's shiny! Try it!

It helps in great deal to cure the severe and chronic chapped lips.

Unsalted Butter to cure the Severe and Chronic Chapped lips

Rub melted unsalted butter on your lip. Yummy! Just doing this once or twice weekly can prevent chapped lip.

During extreme winters, apply vaseline at nights and carry a chap stick for use when needed.

This will help to cure from the severe and chronic chapped lips.

Olive Oil is another method to cure the Chronic Chapped lips

All you have to do is take a little bit of olive oil on the tip of your figure, and place on your chronic chapped lips as you would chap stick. You will have immediate results. Just apply when you feel you need it.

Aloe Vera Gel is generally considered to heal damaged lips if they are cracked and damaged.

Some people use aloe vera gel to avoid lips drying.

Many more pull out the aloe to put on sunburn to ease pain and speed healing and also to put on chapped lips if they are cracked or have other damage. Many of these people believe that aloe dramatically speeds healing of such damage.

All above Homemade remedies are best to cure the chronic and severe chapped lip, you must follows the above home steps to cure the chronic and Severe Chapped Lip.

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