Cracked lips: causes and methods of treatment

The problem of parched and cracked lips to manyIt is familiar not by hearsay. Especially often it is encountered in the winter, when cold winds and frosts blow on the street. How to care for the lips, so that they remain soft and attractive? What if your lips are cracked?

Why the lips crack

The skin on the lips is thin, soft and sensitive. It can not independently withstand external influences. The lips suffer from frost, and from the heat, and from the wind, and from the dry air. The weathering skin turns red, it starts to peel and crack, there are wounds on it that can cover during a conversation or an attempt to smile. All this is not very beautiful, and besides, it also hurts. But the causes of cracking of the skin on the lips are not only in external factors. Often a person is to blame for what happens to his lips. Troubles can begin for the following reasons:

1. The habit of licking lips. A person may even not notice this harmful habit behind himself. Just constantly at home or on the street wiping her lips with saliva. Ironically, but after that, the lips dry even more and eventually crack.
2. The habit of biting your lips. This problem occurs in both children and adults, and it harms the skin condition.
3. Disregard for the protective, nutritious andmoisturizing lip balms. It is necessary to apply such remedies not before the very exit, but a little beforehand. In frosty weather, you should use special protective cosmetics (balms). All lip products must contain UV filters.
4. Because of the frequent use of waterproof cosmetics or lipsticks, which overdry the skin.
5. Coryza. If the nose is laid for a long time, then, due to breathing through the mouth, the lips become wet, moisture evaporates faster from their surface, and they crack.
6. Irrational nutrition also affects the skin condition. If a person's lips are cracked, he most likely lacks vitamins.
7. The habit of picking up dried skin on the wound. Cracks due to this habit do not heal longer. In addition, infection can occur in the wound.

Maybe you are sick?

Cracks on the lips may not be sosafe. They are a sign of some diseases or an independent disease. Dry, chapped lips are a common symptom of gastrointestinal problems and anemia. And if the cracks appeared in the corners, it is most likely an angular stomatitis. In people, this disease is called "zayedoy." The medical names of this disease, besides the above, are several: angulitis, cheilitis and others.

If the corners of the lips cracked, what to treat the pathology? The doctor must determine this. The matter is that a binge can be of two types: streptococcal and candidal. Their treatment is different.

Problems of young children

Chapped lips are a common problem in children. An adult can overcome bad habits, but it is difficult for babies to explain what they are doing wrong. If you are sure that your baby is healthy, he does not have anemia, and he does not lack vitamins, then give him more water. But it is desirable, that the kid did not drink and did not eat in the street, it worsens a condition of a skin of labiums. And also, if the child's lips are cracked, lubricate them with baby balm, Bepanten cream, sea-buckthorn oil. In case of severe damage to the skin, consult a doctor - he can prescribe medicines, for example, "Solcoseryl".

How to return beauty to lips: peeling

On the rough, weathered lips appearpieces of scaly skin. They interfere and often cause a desire to break the skin. This can not be done. It is better to peel at home to remove the damaged layer. There are a lot of recipes for this procedure, here are some of them:

• Honey and sugar. In a teaspoon, mix a little honey and sugar, then apply the mixture on the lips. Massage with light movements for about two minutes, then rinse with cold water. After the lips dry, apply a nourishing balm.
• If your lips cracked, you can use a mixture of vaseline with ground coffee or sugar. This mixture is also rubbed with massage movements for 2 minutes, and then washed off.

Exfoliate dry parts of the skin from the lips cannot only with a scrub, but with a soft terry washcloth. It must be moist and clean to prevent infection. Lips should also be moist, this is important! Strongly rub the skin is not necessary, all movements should be neat and soft. After the procedure, make sure to use a nourishing balm for the lips.

Moisturizing Masks

The problem can be eliminated with moisturizing masks. All that may be needed for treatment is on the shelves of the refrigerator or in the kitchen cabinets:

• For the mask, you need fatty cottage cheese and cream. It is necessary to mix very little, for the next procedure it is better to prepare a new portion. The mask is applied for 10 minutes and rinsed off with warm water.
• Olive oil perfectly nourishes and moisturizes the skin. You just need to put it on your lips and hold it for a while. Oil will restore the skin elasticity.
• Mask of cucumber. For this recipe you need a small grater to grate the cucumber. Kashitsu is better to put lying down. She should stay on her lips for about 15 minutes.
• Honey and sour cream. These two products do not need to be mixed. First, sour cream is applied, and after 15 minutes - honey. This recipe works well if sour cream is applied in the morning, and honey before going to bed.
• Butter. Cracked lips? Lubricate them every half hour with butter. It will quickly restore the skin.

What would this eat?

We already talked about the lack of vitamins. You can buy multivitamins in the pharmacy or vitamins A and E separately. But sometimes the lips crack because of the lack of biotin. This substance can be obtained during meals. Eat more nuts, almonds, eggs, especially yolks, fish and liver. If these products are sufficient, you will forget about cracked lips.

So, you got several answers to the question: "How to treat chapped lips?" Which one is right for you, see for yourself. Some recipes can be combined. But you always need to remember that the problem will not get rid of too quickly. It can take several days to remove it, during which the means for nourishing and moisturizing the skin will be applied repeatedly.