461 I really don't know what your doing here because I think you have no understanding about the condition because you never had it. maybe you had chapped lips or a little peeling but that is not what ec is. ec is a condition that persists for years without cure. chapped lips and a little peeling can be cured by chapstick and licking your lips a lot less than all the time. you have nothing to say on saliva which is where we all struggle. most people here refuse to touch any amount of saliva to there lips because they were told it is bad to lick your lips. but if you look at people on tv and real life it is completely normal to lick your lips. I think this condition is a lack of lip licking not the other way around of too much lip licking. if you were a kid and never been told not to lick your lips, you would lick your lips and they would heal.