Cracked mouth is a symptom of dry and cracked lips, which may be caused by dryness, lipitis, xerostomia, etc. It can be cured by general treatment, medication (e.g., gentamycin), and surgical treatment.
1. Dryness: Low humidity in the air may lead to dry and cracked lips. Normally, you should drink more water to increase the moisture of the body, and you can also use lip balm to moisturize your lips.
2. Lipitis: the disease and sun exposure, drug stimulation and other factors related to the lips may appear cracked lips, bleeding and other symptoms, to immediately stop the use of drugs that may induce lipitis, lipstick, etc., go out and do a good job of sunscreen, to avoid sun exposure, eat a light diet, prohibit spicy and stimulating food.
You can use saline wet compresses on the lips, which is good for moisturizing and relieving dryness; you can also use tretinoin cream and other drugs for local anti-inflammatory; bacterial infections can be treated with gentamycin ophthalmic ointment and other drugs for anti-infection.
3. Keratitis: the disease and malnutrition infection and other factors, patients will appear lip whitening, cracked lips and other symptoms, usually to reduce their own to correct lip biting, lip licking and other bad habits, pay attention to diet, nutritional balance, allergies caused by the symptom should be timely detachment from the allergen.
Bacterial infection caused by keratitis, you can use gentamycin, erythromycin and other drugs; fungal keratitis, you can use clotrimazole, miconazole and other drugs; viral keratitis can use acyclovir and other drugs; contact keratitis can use loratadine. When the symptoms are more serious and the lip fissure is bigger, it can be cleaned and sutured.
When the symptoms of cracked lips appear, you can consult the doctor in time, under the guidance of the doctor to carry out the relevant treatment.