It's like UV treatment for psoriasis, which you need UV light on regular basis to maintain results. I think UV light may have improved Daniel's lips just like it improved your lips being outside in the sun all day. However, teh salmon or omega 3 may have had more to do with healing his lips...unless he still spends hours in the sun every day, then we will not not if the omega 3 is what healed his lips.

Anti-fungal--sun light kills fungus--I'm telling you It's a fungal infection or some sort of reaction to a toxin which your lips are trying to clear out of your body--which also could have happened cuz you were away from the source of contaminates so long each day.

khorven I checked your history and I wanted to comment on your post about exercising (and regarding about the sun as well).

I got my EC while I was going to the gym everyday, and I go to the gym by walking which takes a total of an hour to and from the gym. That also is not the only time I'm under the sun, I play(ed) football and jogged a lot. I have no idea if drinking protein shakes caused my lips to peel but my diet was definitely healthy.

This just proves that I'm kind of an outlier, and the only non-outlier factor that I can contribute is that I used to lick, peel and pick at my lips and I used to get chapped and dry lips from time to time. I guess everyone here is also an outlier in one way or another, because this condition is truly mysterious.

Studies have shown that vitamin D deficiencies have been linked to disease, so I would say it's obviously a factor, but we have to remember not everyone suffers from EC despite not having enough sun exposure.