Date:   8/7/2014 4:34:16 AM ( 11 y ago)
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Hi Drewww,

while it may sound as if I am all against "leave alone method", it is only because I never use time to explain.
I am 100% against biting, touching,licking, or doing anything to your lips.

BUT, I believe "leave alone method" should be just a smallest part (1%) of what you do to cure yourself, not the only thing you do to get cured.

That is why it sounds like I am against "leave alone method". In reality, I am pro "leave alone method", but I am against people continuing the same lifestyle, same diet, same environment.


"So, if this whole thing is an allergy problem then why I have seen progress by leaving my lips alone?"

I believe your progress is due to leaving your lips alone. But, it is also possible you could also benefit from some dietary changes.


"It wouldn't make sense for me to see improvements if I was still eating whatever I want. How do you explain that?"

I believe allergies and intolerance to foods are secondary problem.

I believe that, (and I am aware that might be wrong), underlying cause of peeling lips is some damage to the intestinal and possibly oral microbiota, and also damage to the liver and digestive tract.

I believe that Exfoliative Cheilitis is a spectrum disorder. In other words, you can have it extremely mild, to a point of just having lips slightly dry, or you can have it totally extreme, where complete lips are inflamed and peeling, "monster lips".
We can say it can be from 0 to 100, where 0 is totally healthy lips, no disorder, and 100 is the worst possible case, "monster lips".


This damage to the digestive tract may not always show on common blood tests / liver tests / stool tests. Why? Rare are tests that can show the condition of microbiota. The Science of microbiota is just developing the last few years.

Healthy microbiota is a set of unknown number (large number) of species of bacteria, yeast, fungi, virus, and possibly even transient worms and protozoa, living friendly inside our intestines, and helping us digest our food.

Beside helping digestion, those creatures help also our immunity. Without healthy microbiota, we may develop candida fungi, and all kinds of allergies, intolerance and hundreds of diseases and disorders.


Microbiota can be damaged by Antibiotics , synthetic steroidal medications, hormonal contraception, immunosupressants, synthetic hormones, infective diseases, pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, food poisoning, mercury poisoning, arsenic, pesticides poisoning and poisoning by any and every toxin.


In the developed countries, the most common causes of damage to Intestinal microbiota are synthetic steroidal medications, synthetic hormonal contraception and, of course, Antibiotics . Mass vaccinations may also play a major role.

I believe that 99% of all people with Exfoliative Cheilitis in developed countries, developed the problem thanks to medications.
We shuld make a survey to find that 1% who never took any medications and still developed Exfoliative Cheilitis.


By leving your lips alone, you have given your lips time to heal. But not only your lips. You have also given your microbiota, your intestines and your liver time to heal.

In healthy people microbiota heals naturally, it just re-establish itself after any serious problem like diarrhea, food poisoning, viral infections etc.

Some people who were treated with medications, loose that ability to re-establish microbiota. Some people loose that ability just for a limited time.
Condition and damage to microbiota and condition and damage to liver is also a spectrum.
We can say it can be from 0 to 100.

0 = perfectly healthy microbiota
100 = totally damaged microbiota

Your digestive tract is always somewhere between 0 and 100.


As time goes, some people can improve the condition of microbiota by accumulating more good bacteria from food and environment, and keeping bad bugs at bay.

Other people are unable to achieve that kind of improvement.


In your case, your microbiota may have gotten better on its own, together with the fact you left your lips alone, or, just leaving your lips alone was enough to achieve improvement.

We will never know for sure, we can only guess.

WS

 

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