Another possible solution

Another possible solution that is consistent with my reasoning is to use a combined corticosteroid/antimicrobial. Check out this message:

http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9606&L=bboplist&D=0&...

"We usually prescribe a combined steroid and anti-fungal such as Vytone cream or Lotrisone cream after recommending that the patient discontinue the use of all other topical substances.  Once in a while, the exfoliative cheilitis does not respond. Even those cases usually resolve by themselves in a few months."

This doctor has used Vytone cream to cure exfoliative cheilitis (and he says that it usually works!). Vytone contains Iodoquinol (antifungal/antibacterial) and hydrocortisone (corticosteroid). Now think about it, the corticosteroid prevents the scab from building up, thus microbes has no place to hide, so the antimicrobial is able to kill them effectively.

Unfortunately, i cannot get Vytone cream here in Mexico, but I wonder if anyone in this forum has tried it?

I will look for Lotrisone or another similar cream like Vioform-Hydrocortisone if my first method doesn´t work.

Some other messages that talk about it (some of them refer to angular cheilitis, but the reasoning is the same):

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9711&L=BBOPLIST&P=R...

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9610&L=BBOPLIST&P=R...

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9610&L=BBOPLIST&P=R...

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9902&L=BBOPLIST&P=R...

It seems that exfoliative cheilitis isn't that rare after all.