Why don't you post the ingredients in the paste and we can look at what's in it ?

ecaccutane, sorry I don't have any pictures I took when I had ec, even though I had it for over a decade. I don't want to post any now pictures either but trust me I have beautiful lips now that are very healthy. when I did have this they would really only be inflamed after the crusts came off, usually by force, otherwise they would weld on to my lips. my diet is really good for the last year vegetables, salads, chicken, fish,steak,potatoes etc. and I also started taking omega 3 fish oil almost everyday. I got ec from obsessive lip licking and biting. I had a ocd disorder where I thought I had to lick my lips even despite of the webpages saying not too. so I licked for many years but I also tried many different things mostly just leaving them alone and avoiding water or liquids touching them, eating carefully not smiling all trying to heal the scabs. they are not scabs by the way. I finally decided I would stop licking my lips and biting them and the first thing I did was hydrate them with water a lot throughout the day, I almost became obsessed with hydrating my lips and drinking water. Vaseline, lip balms and coconut oil actually don't contain water so they dont hydrate the lips even though they say they moisturize. what they do is seal in the moisture so it doesn't dry out too fast. so hydrate your lips by soaking them in water, you can do this by simply drinking glasses of water and getting the water on your lips or going to the sink and cupping water in your hands then soaking your lips for 30 seconds or you can soak your lips in the shower for 5 minutes and be sure to take off any dead skin that comes off gently and easily because after you do it wont ever come back if you keep hydrating them a lot. the only product I recommend is burts bees lip balm the flavored kind cherry,mango,strawberry etc. I use the mango flavor. the ingrediants are really good and its the best thing ive ever put on my lips. here are the ingrediants. sunflower seed oil, coconut oil, beeswax, castor oil, mango seed butter, lanolin, soybean oil and canola oil. after you soak your lips good like I said, seal in the water(moisture) with the lip balm. do this a lot throughout the day and you should get better really quickly.

Yes you are right I did post that.

The reason I posted it was because I was so excited when I saw a change in the peeling from changing my toothpaste. I was expecting my EC to cure and when it didn't I fell back onto other theories. I think also because it was marketed as fluoride and SLS free I felt like it was my last option in terms of what toothpastes were available. The lips continued to peel but my peeling reduced in severity ever since, it just never clicked with me that I needed to go further with it and try a paste that causes even less and ideally no irritation to the lip area what was damaged from biting. To answer you then :

1) I got EC from biting my lips. Very nervous and anxious as a child, it started when I moved to secondary school which was a nerve wrecking time for me, although saying this I remember being nervous in primary school and biting my lips even then. I always brushed my teeth religiously which probably didn't help them recover from the damage I caused to them from biting.

2) Since changing/trialing different toothpastes I've gotten lips not to peel, dry out and bleed as much, but they still do. My gums would bleed all the time before and the scabbing would be impossible to control without biting the dead skin off immediately. I think inflammation is difficult to describe because the EC to me became a normality. I never remember feeling like my lips were swelling in size, but certainly the colour changed all the time. Only recently from taking pictures and archiving them do I realise now that the redness on the inner part of the mouth that comes and goes is not normal. You can see the red area (stiching in line is bright red) and slowly I am getting it to go pinker. I used to get this redness all over the lips because I think the harsher toothpastes would strip the wound area and strip off the healthy skin around it as well. My lips used to sting all the time, not so much at all now. What's crucial is testing whether there is a change from changing your toothpaste. Ideally to being with avoid using toothpaste for 7 days and see if there is a difference. Your peeling will not stop in this time, but if you notice a lighter peeling, less irritation and less bleeding, you probably have found your answer.

3) I have tried all the changes to the diet you can imagine. I've tried gluten free and been gluten free for two years odd. I've tried anti-inflammation diets, flushing. I don't eat milk/dairy now. I've not noticed any change in how the lips peel from any dietary changes. Frankly I have driven myself quite mad at times trying to find links between the peeling and the food I'm eating that day. I don't think it's the answer for me, I'm pretty certain. If this wound healing does not achieve a cure I'll have no option but to focus back on this area though.

4) see my blog. I apologise because it is messy and I've missed a few updates due to real life taking over, but I am making progess now. In time I'll probably go back and see if there are other photos I can dig out which may give an even better explanation of how they have changed.

I am not cured, but slowly I am getting my lips to peel less and less, and no it's not easy and it takes time to see changes.

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The first photo in my blog is 4 months ago which is when I got really determined to cured this goddam problem once and for all.