Yeah and in it he states that he's healed and he did it by letting it stay on and putting aquaphor on it

Daniel states that before he applied aquaphor he had a period of year and a half of leaving them alone. I would think this would contribute in some way to the eventual healing don't you ? He doesn't have good things to say about the leaving them alone method but he does say that the peeling cycle slowed down somewhat during this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7crA0q11s

He ceased the leaving them alone method and then went onto the constant moisture method. He says at no point did he forceably peel his lips.

I made the mistake of being negative about his posts before and he pulled me up on it. I was this way because I was so eagar for a cure that it blinded me and stopped me from slowing down and listening. Those who have not tried the leaving them alone method for at least one month should do first (in my opinion), because it allows you exposure to people (seeing people and being embarrassed and ashamed) which is a good thing because it helps build strength and confidence and gives you courage, most importantly it gives you patience, and it means that you don't panic because your lips don't like quite right in the future. My lips never look as bad as when they are left alone, the dry scabs look horrible, especially when I have things like soups/pasta with sauces that discolour the scabs until they fall off. If I interfere with a scab in its dry state (even remotely), my lips will respond with redness (inflammation). If I work off the build up, i.e. in the shower, my lips will go incredibly tight again and start on skinning over again and the cycle repeats.

Aquaphor sort of oils everything up and lubricates everything so the dryness does not appear as bad, but if the build up is not rubbed off I would think you may get to a stage where huge chunks of scab fall off regularily because of how it works. Aquaphor sort of exfoliates the dead skin in a painless way. I find it's difficult to keep new skin on the lips when I apply aquaphor. I've never needed to apply more than twice per day. There's no way I would apply it multiple times a day as Daniel was suggesting, I hate the consistency of the stuff and the taste. I never leave it on over night because the taste in the back of my mouth after sleeping is horrible.

Personally, I'm not sure I experience the same exfoliative chelitis as daniel. Check this link.

http://dentistryandmedicine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/lesions-affecting-lips-oral-medicine.html

Try to figure out which EC you actually have first.

In my case my lip peeling is related to biting/chewing from nervousness during my younger years (exoliative chelitits). I could be wrong in this though. It may be that exfoliative chelitits when left alone ends up looking a lot like contact chelitits after a period of time. It's difficult to figure this out as those pictures give no indication of frequency or duration in relation to one another, they are just pictures representing each form of chelitits in no relation to one another.


In Daniel's case it does appear as though he had a bad form of contact chelitis from the start (assumption) I'm only assuming this is the case based on how thick his scabs were compared to mine and the pictures in the link. He says he was never tested for allergies so it would be silly to rule out that a product he may have used being the culprit during the onset of his EC.