Re: Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy

EDIT: I thought you were talking about using peroxide on your skin, I didn't realize you were talking about swallowing it.

I'll leave my original post below, but just wanted to explain that I had misunderstood you when I wrote it.

Be careful and research carefully anything you are thinking of doing! Good luck. :-)

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Several people on the forum have mentioned using this in the past. You can do a search for mentions of it.

Hydrogen peroxide is great, and for about 4 months (until last month when I started eliminating everything I could think of that might be causing my lips to be irritated) I rinsed my mouth with a diluted solution of hydrogen peroxide each night after brushing my teeth, to kill germs and whiten my teeth.

One thing about peroxide is that it is a debriding agent, meaning that it clears out cells, and it also can kill and remove healthy cells as well as unwelcome things. Many hospitals have apparently stopped using peroxide because it's harsh on healing, fragile tissue and there are gentler antimicrobials out there.

When I used it as a mouth rinse for 4 months, my lips were in contact with the hydrogen peroxide solution each night, but still my cheilitis got worse and worse. So I think for me, it wouldn't help my lip irritation/flaking.

However, I developed a bleeding cut on my lip a few days ago when I opened my mouth to put a spoonful of dinner in it, because my lips are so dry (it's 34% humidity in the house where I live, and impossible to get the humidity up in most places of the house, even with humidifiers, so my lips are cracked and inflexible), and I've dabbed peroxide on the cut before I've gone to bed for the past 2 nights, and I think the peroxide has helped it to heal.

Things to watch out for if you are using hydrogen peroxide on your lips: don't swallow it, don't get it on hair or clothing (it is a bleach) Tweet