I got EC because I rubbed my lips a lot, and after a while they started becoming dry, that's when I started peeling my lips. A couple of months passed and that's when I got tired of it and did some online research and found Daniel millers story. What I'm trying to say is that if a person knows they caused some sort of trauma to their lips, then leaving them alone in my opinion is the only method for them to be cured. If a persons lips became dry