Dr. Rasya Dixit | Appointment booking number: 099018 90588
Consultant Dermatologist & Cosmetologist | Dr. Dixit Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic, Bengaluru
Cheilitis is a lip ezema or a dryness of the lips. Dryness of the lips are due to many causes. Some of them are due to use of hash lipsticks or very drying sin washes or face washes. Some of them may be due to licking of the lips, which could be drying out the lips. Excessive exposure to the lips can cause something called as the Actinic Exfoliative Cheilitis. Use of certain tablets like to treat acne like isotretinoin can also cause chelitis. Let us not forget even vitamin deficiency like Vitamin D deficiency can also cause cheilitis. Cheilitis could be a part of perioral dermatitis, which is a part of eczema around the mouth or it can be eczema. So atopic dermatitis can present as lip cheilitis. So here are varied effects of cheilitis, which is very important to meet the dermatologist to see what is the primary cause of lip cheilitis. Whatever the cause is, go and meet your dermatologists. So use bland lip balm it should not have any perfume in it. Avoid licking the lips. The saliva of the lips can make the lip dryness worse and make the lip dryness worse use a very gentle soap free face wash and a moisturizer to hydrate the skin around the lip area. You may need additional topical steroid creams , you may need topical tacrolimus, you may need vitamin supplements and topical sunscreens. All these can be given by a prescription by a dermatologists, don’t neglect it. It can become very unsightly and can lead to hyperpigmentation of the lips and this is going to difficult to treat in the long run. So if you have cheilitis please speak to your dermatologist
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