Re: White spots and ramblings

"I think it's tied to our diet, but what I can't figure out is why people that eat fast food all day/ are severely obese/ people who surf and are in the sun all the time/ people who are anorexic and missing nutrients - their lips are perfectly fine."

One factor that is oftenly overlooked here: a factor that severe reduces the health of the skin of our lips, that allows these factors to play a role in hyperproliferation of our skin, which can grow into EC.

Next to (combinations of) medications and other therapies, many of us have the 'factitious' disorder: lip biting/ licking/ scratching etc.
This insult, when sustained for some time, causes an abberation in our lip-wound healing process, setting it into overdrive. How exactly this abberation is caused, and how the lip-healing process can be reverted back to normal, is still unknown unfortunately.

In very rare cases, EC, or susceptibility to EC, can be genetically inherited, which could explain why some of us still get EC without any prior injury/ medication etc. Although I am still unsure of this, I think it is not an unlikely cause of EC.

This large variety of causes for EC also means that it is likely that certain 'cures' might only work for some people. Therefore it is important that everyone fills in the form on the EC-website that was recently made, to allow us to search for common denominators, and to see if someone with a similar cause of EC as you has found a cure.