It's said that the chapped lips may be a disease. Is it true or false? Why are the lips easy to dry in spring and autumn? For this reason, the reporter asked the experts for confirmation.
Liu Hongwei, chief physician of Stomatology Department of Peking University Stomatology Hospital, said: our lipstick belongs to mucous membrane or more precisely, oral mucous membrane. The mucous membrane is very thin. There are less collagen fibers under it than the skin, so the water it can hold is less. Dry weather is an external environmental factor for dry lips.
Xu Guomei, deputy chief physician of Dermatology Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine, said: when traditional Chinese medicine says that spring and autumn are the transformation of yin and Yang, the autumn Yang is declining, and we show a convergence effect on the whole body surface. Spring is also due to the dry outside, some people feel the rise of liver fire, performance for dry Qi and blood.
In this way, dry weather is indeed the main cause of dry lips. Will dry lips not be disease?
Liu Hongwei said: the lip stem belongs to the inflammation of our lip tissue in a sub state, which is not to the extent of inflammation, but to inflammation.
That is to say, if you just feel the dry lips, there is no other performance, it is not a disease, you can adjust yourself by water supplement and other ways. So, what kind of lip stem is a disease? What kind of disease is it?
Liu Hongwei said: once the lips have peeling, we call desquamation, so the lips are basically in the stage of inflammation. If there is another serious crack, a linear short crack, in which there will be blood exudation and even scab, it is a typical inflammation or a serious inflammation, and it is in the state of cheilitis.
Xu Guomei said: Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that the spleen opens its orifices to the mouth, and its essence lies in the lips. People with weakened spleen function will find that the lips are dry, the lips will turn white and there will be dry desquamation.
It seems that chapped lips may indeed be a disease. Experts tell us that cheilitis includes chronic cheilitis and acute cheilitis. Among them, chronic cheilitis is the most common in our life. Its main manifestations are scaling, redness and chapped lips. In the treatment of cheilitis, the wet application of lips is a very important link.
And many patients often do not master the right method, resulting in repeated illness, the treatment effect is not ideal. So what's the right way to wet?
Liu Hongwei said: we take out a piece of cotton with a width and a length suitable for lip red, pour a small amount of liquid medicine, and then use tweezers to pick up one end and let it drop down until it is not enough to drop the liquid medicine, and cover it on the patient's lips. Every three to five minutes, use tweezers to hold a part of the solution and move it to the cotton tablet. Keep it wet for 20 minutes. If you don't have these solutions, it's OK to use light salt water.
After wet compress, Vaseline cream or lip balm should be applied in time to lock moisture. In fact, in life, there is also a kind of folk therapy for chapped lips. Is this feasible?
Liu Hongwei said: sesame oil and lipstick also contain a certain amount of humid ingredients, but if it is more dry and dry at the stage of disease, lipstick and sesame oil will not work.
That is to say, when the lips are inflamed, the treatment effect can not be achieved only by applying oil. However, we can prevent lipitis by applying lip oil in dry weather.
Experts remind
Be sure to avoid the habit of licking your lips and tearing dry the skin with your hands. This is also the key inducement of chronic cheilitis. Clinically, there are not a few patients suffering from lipitis due to the neglect of these details, so if there is peeling and chapped lips, it must not be despised, and it is recommended to go to the hospital for relevant diagnosis.