Re: according to my derm, ec tends to spread/deepen when irritated

precisely... the way to beat ec is not to fight fire with fire... simply to keep the lips as soothed as possible at all times.... so they go into a healing state as opposed to an inflamed degenerative one.

Also I would like to add, this is exactly the reason there is no established "cure" for EC. It's a chronic inlflammatory skin condition caused by numerous differentiating factors and the way to beat it is to eliminate said factors... and take good care of yourself and your lips.

I think a lot of the twigs and berries remedies we have heard working for some people online are simply either fabrications, or cooincidental, and by that I mean these people are probably always trying something new to heal their lips, and for whatever reason their ec went into spontanteous remission during their lastest scheme so they attribute the positive change to their effort rather than the bodies amazing ability to heal itself. Tweet