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Peeling lip problem
Gear Girl
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I have had a strange problem with my lips recently where my lips will get incredibly dry and build up a hard shell. If I then apply any sort of lip balm or chap stick the top layers of skin will soften and start to peel off leaving the raw skin underneath. The lips will then build layers and harden again. This just endlessly repeats in this cycle and is getting annoying. I believe I compounded the problem at first by constantly picking off the moistened peeling skin but I am fighting this urge tooth and nail now. This problem may have been initiated at first by me picking at dry chapped segmented lips but I honestly can't even remember how it started.
I have no idea how to fix this without just having the skin peel off again while softened and repeat the cycle. Maybe I should not apply any lip balm at all and see what happens to the hard skin naturally. Has anyone experienced anything similar or have any solutions to this? Thanks.
I have no idea how to fix this without just having the skin peel off again while softened and repeat the cycle. Maybe I should not apply any lip balm at all and see what happens to the hard skin naturally. Has anyone experienced anything similar or have any solutions to this? Thanks.
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If it is still a major problem, talk to your doctor.
The only thing diagnosed recently was low iron but I just finished my pill taking regiment for that.
Hmm I suppose dehydration may be a possibility. I drink a lot of milk and occasional juice but very little water.
Like everyone said, just get a really good high quality, medicated, lip balm. Carry it around with you and apply it constantly.
It sounds like you're putting on some chapstick.. maybe licking your lips or breathing through your mouth alot, and you lose the benefit.
This would be my guess.
Become a chapstick addict is what I'm saying.
But yeah the reason that is happening is because your lips are getting a little bit chapped and then you are probably licking them, which is not a good idea.
On the other hand, you may have picked up a mild bacterial infection, in which case, i'd try somthing like Blistex Healing, which is medicated, works for me.
You could also try to go some days without applying chapstick and see if your lips heal on their own (also no licking and so on).
Otherwise, go see a doctor.
If this doesn't help, you need a dermatologist.
You know how your balls will shrink if you take steroids because your body realizes it doesn't need any more of those hormones? The same thing can happen with your lips naturally moisturizing themselves.
This is bullshit.
When people say "you are dehydrated dehydrated" they don't mean "you are as desiccated as Death Valley." "Enough water to stay alive" and "enough water to stay healthy" are very different things.
You can't drink too much water (hydrotoxicity or whatever its called is irrelevant to the discussion unless you're a complete dumbass in which case your loss will not be mourned) you'll just pee out the excess. So drink more water.
If your pee isn't crystal clear every time you're going, you're dehydrated. Low-grade dehydration won't kill you, might not even do you any lasting harm over a prolonged period, but being properly hydrated = better than not. If nothing else you'll feel better. I know I do, whenever I stay properly hydrated (which isn't often enough).
Furthermore, just about everything else people drink when thirsty has sugar in one form or another. Which is not good for your teeth and not good for your weight.
It might not solve your peeling lips problem, but it can't hurt you to try drinking more water for a few weeks (and stop picking/chewing on them, which I know is goddamn hard as someone who does it) and see what happens. You can always go back to your bad habits once you've broken them, if you're stubborn.
This is really stupid of me to point out, but I just can't let it go for some reason. :P
The "faster you cut your hair the faster it grows" statement is a myth.
Its late so I just typed it into google and came up with this to back me up on that, but I can get some more evidence tomorrow if you question the article.
On topic: Yeah, just drink more water and carry around chapstick at all times. That should do the trick!
okay
almost everybody is slightly dehydrated. but your urine doesn't need to be crystal clear for you to be hydrated. if your urine is a golden wheat or lighter, you're probably fine. if your urine is amber or darker, you're almost certainly dehydrated. and if your urine is pungent, you're definitely dehydrated.
that said, the OP probably is dehydrated. they should make a point to try to consume 2-3 quarts of water per day, and should apply Vaseline to their lips every 4 hours or so until such time that this condition clears up.
And drink water / apply chapstick, as everyone else has been saying.
After a shower, rub your lips with the towel...it helps to remove dry skin...
And then, petroleum jelly (vaseline) or even a chapstick should do the trick in a week's time..