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2020-10-21T13:15:57.613Z


Dry lips, peeling skin, and popping are sometimes caused not only by lack of water, but also by cheilitis and lack of vitamins. In addition to using lip balm and drinking plenty of water, you should also pay attention to the real cause of dry lips, and prescribe the right medicine to improve your condition. The following is the explanation of dry lips made by Chinese and Western medicine, you may refer to it.


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Written by: Zhang Yuru

2020-10-21 21:03

Last update date: 2020-10-21 21:03

Dry lips are easy to appear in autumn and winter, and even the dander will fall off. Is this just because of the coming of autumn?

Or is it a "warm" reminder that your body gives you in the cold autumn and winter, telling you where your body is unwell?

From the perspective of Chinese and Western medicine, dry lips also reflect different problems in the body!

Dr. Lin Xuqiang, Dermatology and STD Specialist (provided by the interviewee)

Western medicine: 3 common causes

Dry lips because the body lacks water or certain vitamins?

In fact, there are many causes of dry lips. Dr. Lin Xuqiang, a specialist in skin and venereal diseases, pointed out that there are 3 common causes of dry lips.

Cause 1: Dry weather

Dry weather "steals" human body moisture, so that the mucous membrane of the lips loses moisture and the lips become dry.

Cause 2: Lack of water

The Department of Health recommends that adults should consume 6 to 8 cups of liquid drinks per day, such as water, tea, milk, and clear soup, but the actual amount of water required varies from person to person.

When drinking water is insufficient, lack of water makes the mucous membrane of the lips easy to dry.

Cause 3: Lip inflammation (cheilitis)

Dr. Lin pointed out that cheilitis is generally divided into two categories, including skin eczema and contact dermatitis, which can cause dry lips.

Skin eczema is a well-known skin disease, which can be distributed anywhere on the body, most commonly at the joints on the body, and the face, including the lips, is not immune.

As for contact dermatitis, it refers to the irritation and allergies to the lips caused by the food or substances in contact. For example, the pigments, fragrances, and some sunscreen ingredients in lip balm may cause contact dermatitis.

Vitamin B12 can generally be taken from meat, fish, eggs and dairy products.

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Can lack of vitamin B12 cause dry lips?

In addition to the above three common causes, I believe many people have heard that lack of vitamin B12 can cause dry lips.

Dr. Lin responded that the corners of the lips of people who are usually deficient in vitamin B12 will be drier and accompanied by inflammation.

In fact, cases of dry lips caused by vitamin B12 deficiency are relatively rare, because sufficient vitamin B12 can be absorbed under a normal or balanced diet. However, vitamin B12 deficiency is more common in the elderly.

The cold wind makes the skin extremely dry, and the lips will dry out rough and peel off. How can I improve it?

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Western medicine treatment method: prescribe the right medicine for the cause of dry lips

To improve the problem of dry lips, you must first find out the crux of the problem, and then prescribe the right medicine.

If the problem of dry lips is caused by dry weather, Dr. Lin points out that applying lip balm to lock in moisture and moisturize is an indispensable step; if insufficient moisture causes dry lips, just make up enough moisture to solve it.

How to tell if there is insufficient drinking water or inflammation of the lips?

Lack of moisture: dry lips

Cheilitis: dry lips, red, swollen, painful, itchy lips

For cheilitis, topical ointments are generally used to control the situation. There are steroid and non-steroid ointments respectively.

Using steroids to induce side effects?

Dr. Lin clarified that steroid ointments cannot be generalized. As long as they are used appropriately under the diagnosis and supervision of a doctor, side effects do not often occur.

Prevention starts before it happens, and if you take more daily care, you will no longer be afraid of the autumn breeze commonly known as "water thief."

As for how to take care of it?

Dr. Lin raised several points for attention!

▼Lip CareQ&A (click to understand 👇👇👇)

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Registered TCM physician Huang Jingjing (provided by the interviewee)

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Dry lips due to insufficient spleen and yin fluid

At the same time, Chinese medicine practitioners have different opinions on dry lips.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Huang Jingjing doctors said that dry lips are caused by the beginning of dryness inside the body.

She explained: "Because urban people are busy at work, eating irregularly, inadequate drinking water, staying in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, and lack of sleep, they start to consume their true yin, that is, insufficient yin fluid in the spleen, and symptoms of yin deficiency appear. "What is Yin deficiency?

She continued that yin deficiency is a symptom of the body's yin and blood, body fluid deficiency, deficiency, and wasting.

Yin deficiency is different from yang deficiency. The constitution of yin deficiency can cause symptoms such as dry skin, dry mouth, fever in palms and soles, and poor sleep quality.

Eat less spicy food​

Dr. Huang suggested that people with chapped lips and obvious peeling conditions should apply a mild lip balm to moisturize the lips first.

Secondly, people with dry lips should drink water diligently, drink a glass regularly to replenish water, and not stop drinking because of busyness.

In addition, starting from the diet, you should eat more foods that nourish yin and dryness, and eat less spicy, stimulating and salty foods.

▼Foods that nourish yin and moisturize dryness: (click to understand 👇👇👇)

▼Nourishing Yin and Moisturizing Diet: (According to the picture to understand 👇👇👇)

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