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

This article is from 1908 -- in the last 100 years, it seems that not much more has been discovered about this malady.

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CHEILITIS EXFOLIATIVA.

M. L. RAVITCH, M.D.

JAMA. 1908 ; LI(20):1684-1685.

(Journal of the American Medical Association.
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.)


"I think that Dr. H. Radcliffe-Crocker gave the above disease an appropriate name, since the most prominent symptom is exfoliation. Some authors are inclined to recognize it as a form of eczema, as did Besnier-Doyon, who called it eczéma exfoliant des lèvres; some insist that it acts like psoriasis; thus Bateman calls it Psoriasis labialis. Since a few cases were associated with seborrhea, Rayer is inclined to think this disease a part of seborrheic process and calls it pityriasis des lèvres. Drs. Hyde and Montgomery in their text-book, insist that this affection should not be confounded with eczema, and call it "cheilitis glandularis apostematosa." So do Stelwagon and Volkmann. Lately Dr. Hyde recognized this disease as an instance of infective folliculitis.

SYMPTOMATOLOGY, PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT.

From all the inquiries I have made I find that so little has been written about cheilitis exfoliativa that very few of the text-books go..." Tweet