Dry lips are mostly associated with diseases such as chronic lipitis, solar labyrinthitis, and granulomatous labyrinthitis. According to different etiology can be taken to change the lifestyle, local treatment, drug treatment and other measures.
1. Chronic lipitis: refers to chronic non-specific inflammatory lesions of the lips. Most of them are related to dryness, cold and lip biting, lip licking habits and other stimulating factors, manifested as red lips with yellowish-white or brown flakes, dry lips and so on. At this time, you can change the lip biting, lip licking and other bad habits, avoid wind, cold and other adverse stimuli, quit smoking, alcohol and spicy food. Local vitamin A and cod liver oil ointment can be applied.
2. Solar labyrinthitis: the disease is caused by ultraviolet radiation in sunlight, manifested as red mucous membrane of the lips, red, swollen, congested, erythematous, desquamated, dry, etc., the course of the disease can be prolonged so that the red lip pigmentation loss, red mucous membrane of the lips, the appearance of white plaques. Its treatment includes sun protection, local use of chloroquine ointment, titanium dioxide ointment, fluorouracil and other coated.
3. Granulomatous lipitis: a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by lip swelling and hypertrophy. The performance of the red mucous membrane of the lips is dry, the appearance of fissure grooves, chapped corners of the mouth, and so on. Its treatment can be local injection of tretinoin and prednisolone, oral thalidomide, methotrexate, trinitrotoluene and so on.
Dry lips may have other causes, should be timely consultation, improve the examination, clear diagnosis, standardized treatment under the guidance of a professional physician, the use of drugs need to comply with medical advice.