Why can you have cheilitis

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In spring, many people's lips will feel red, and many people like to bite their lips, which can easily lead to cheilitis. Let's share with you the causes of cheilitis.

Why can you have cheilitis

Reason 1: acute allergic cheilitis is a kind of mucosal disease which is easy to occur and belongs to type I allergic reaction. Lip is red lip, located at the junction of human skin and mucous membrane, because close to the body surface, capillary is very rich. Because the surface tissue of lipstick is very thin, foreign bodies are easy to "invade", and immune cells and antibodies running in blood vessels will "stand up" here to "fight" with the invaders. As a result, the red lip has become the battlefield of antigen and antibody.

Reason 2: the incidence of chronic cheilitis is related to various chronic long-term persistent stimulation, such as dryness and cold, especially with bad habits such as licking and biting lips. Chronic cheilitis can occur in both upper and lower lips, especially in the lower lip. Often repeated attacks, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, especially in the winter windy and dry season. After exposure to the sun and the disease, bad lip licking, biting, lip red, encounter thin scab that tear off habits, slowly will appear the phenomenon of infection, to the late will slowly erosion, will appear cheilitis; lip scald treatment is not timely can also form chronic inflammation, the whole body tuberculosis, hepatitis and other lesions are also prone to cheilitis.

Reason 3: the cause of dry desquamation cheilitis is unknown. Candida albicans infection can cause fungal cheilitis, deep fissure can extend to the skin, and may cause bleeding and blood scab, fissure is difficult to heal for a long time. Gray white phosphorus scraps can cover the whole lip. Fungal cheilitis is mainly characterized by white pseudomembrane or patches. The pseudomembrane is not easy to remove. There may be redness, swelling, ulceration and erosion of the lip. PAS staining showed hyphae. Patients often lick their lips because of dryness and pain, and sometimes rub them because of mild pruritus.

matters needing attention

People with cheilitis should drink more water, don't always bite their lips with teeth, and don't eat irritating food. If cheilitis occurs in the lip, we must avoid eating, so as to avoid lip irritation.