Re: Other names (medical terms or otherwise) for peeling, cracking, flaking lips that have gone beyond light chapping

Hey,

I agree with your frustrations with the website, as do probably everyone ...
Perhaps you saw my recent post:
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1520406#i


I disagree with others' logic that if we have the same problem therefore we need the same solution. I have always maintained this forum was about the symptoms, and each of us had to rule everything out to find their own cause. Reporting the onset of your condition and your success or failure treating helps others choose appropriate treatments for their cases. As I've said in the past, even our symptoms vary to some degree, some have inflammation/swelling, some redness and pain, some fordyce spots, some the lips turn white in contact with water.

The commonality, if any, between all of us lies at the skin-cell level, if we could each take electron microscope pictures of the layers of our lips I imagine we would see a pattern.

Therefore, "exfoliative cheilitis" is NOT the perfect term to describe our collective condition: -itis means inflammation often caused by infection, -osis means any abnormality (I was Dxed by a useless oral pathologist with idiopathic cheilosis). Angular cheilitis is specifically in the corners of the mouth, actinic is pre-cancerous lesions from UV exposure. Other terms that have arisen and died: labial hyperkeratosis, hyperkeratinization of the lips. However, "peeling lips" is the one that sticks, rolls right off the tongue, all the kids are saying it.

http://twitter.com/peelinglips


Peace. Tweet