cracked lips on side of mouth

Hello, Without examination confirmation of a diagnosis is tough but the symptoms that you are having can be due to stomatitis and angular stomatitis. Stomatitis is an inflammation of the mucous lining of any of the structures in the mouth and Irritation and fissuring in the corners of the lips is termed angular stomatitis. Most common causes are iron deficiency anemia, or vitamin B deficiencies.They can also be caused by allergies and infections.

If the cracking is on the outside at the corners of the lips, one of the gals here mentioned using Vagisil successfully.

Check out the website below that gives you more advice with regard to painful cracked lips, how to deal with them and the types of illnesses that can cause cracked lips. http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Painful-Cracked-Lips Make an appointment to see your doctor again so that he can take a swab of the corners of your lips and from inside your mouth to find out if there is a fungal issue and also ask your doctor to run some blood tests with regard to ruling out any medical conditions.

i have been suffering for about 2 months with cracked lips at the corners of my mouth please can you help ive tried vasaline which helps it from hurting but its not clearing up

Currently, I have one pimple-like bump on one side of my lip (as seen on the left side of picture), and on the other side are small dry spots on my lip. I cannot tell WHAT in the world they are because they are rather small and not very noticeable. I have to look especially close to be able to see these dry spots on the left of my upper lip. Now I'm kind of a hypochondriac. Once I started researching all of this information on Herpes, I started flipping out, thinking that I have HSV 1.

My lips are always cracked and dry

He also has cuts on his tongue. Hs mouth has always been very sensitive so much so that even a pinch of pepper he could taste in his food. Please help... it is very painful also.

Im on treatment for hep c and have had a lot of side effects come and go, lately Ive been experiencing cracked corners of my mouth and its very painful not to mention embarassing and ugly, did anyone else experience this while on treatment and if so what can I do to make it go away or somewhat better?

@ Belle - I read on here to try Monostat. I had a little tube that came w a kit. Only lips n sides of my mouth where it cracks, and it's gone. I only use it as needed now. Maybe a few days a month.

Lips dry due to needing more hydration. Olive oil works for adults. Would that be safe for a baby? Never looked it up...

He currently does not have any visible sore on his mouth, but he has very dry /cracked lips (may bleed). If he kisses me (with his dry /cracked lips), how likely will he pass the virus to me? Also, if he licked and kissed other parts of my body like neck and nipples, will it have chance of catching HSV1?

I was having really bad chapped lips and they were even cracking. Then I started drinking lots of water and my lips got so much better!!

s penis and i must have bit it or something and it started to bleed a little and it got in my mouth and i am worried that i may have some open cuts or sores and that the blood got in it. i also, have dry/cracked lips and worried that the blood could have got in there as well. is there any chance of catching hiv??

s preety but lives alone and has no bfs i dont know why but thing is that i kissed her on the lips and my lips were cracked with a small smear of blood on my lower lip!her lips too were cracked and we kissed one day! now i know we cant get hiv by kissing if no blood contact but suppose that girl bite her lips on PURPOSE!!!!i kept thinking this all time.

I was recently on vacation in a very dry environment and developed pretty chapped lips and a "crack" in the right corner of my mouth. I chalked it up to the weather and lack of sleep / hydration. I have now returned home (about 4 days later) and my lips have cleared up with the exception of the corner crack and I have also developed what I would describe as a small whitehead a half inch or so down from the crack, on my lower lip just below the "rosy" part.

i know tha saliva does not spread hiv but if there was blood that i did not noticed?? i dont remember if my lips were cracked and i am very worried, as 1 month later my throat was in pain for 3 days ( i had no fever or something else) and now i feel like there is knot on my throat for days......... i am so worried!! is there any chance??

For 2 months I have suffered with dry cracked lips, redness in corners of mouth. Moisture tends to collect in corners of mouth. I feel like if I smile my mouth is stretching. I am constantally wiping the moisture out of the corners of my mouth. My lips have a burning sensation inside and out. Mouthwash sets me on fire, but just the anterior portion of my mouth. I have tried many kinds of chapstick. The redness in the corners of my mouth is spreading. It is very embarassing.

One night I bit into a piece of an apple right on the side of my bad tooth, and somthing didnt feel right. My whole lower jaw swelled and my mouth was in so much pain. Needless to say I noticed my lower left side of my lip and jaw/cheek became numb, and has been numb since. The swelling finally went down, but I can still feel like a hard bump in my lower jaw bone. I am starting to get worried, that my lip and cheek is still numb...Is this normal?? Will the feeling ever come back?

I forgot to add, I have cracked lips, so may be the breast milk can go through the cracked lips..

Every night I would rub gobs of Vaseline on my feet and cover them with socks. I used Vaseline on my lips also and it did help. I told the nurse about this problem and she said I was dehydrated and increase the water. I started drinking 100 to 120 ounces of water daily and within a week my heels and cracked lips went away.

I tried treating it with blistex but the remained chapped. As a result of my chapped lips I believe I received an infection that must have occurred when my cracked lips encountered some virus or bacteria. I have redness around my mouth, irritation (itching), occasional minor swelling, and dry lips. I went to emergency room when it first started. Thinking it was an allergic reaction, the doctor gave me a shot or benedryl and a hot of cordisone to relieve swelling.

Or a bad case of Chapped lips , a condition whereby the lips become dry and possibly cracked. It may be caused by the evaporation of moisture. Lip balm can often provide temporary relief, though it should not be used extensively. One should avoid licking their lips as saliva contains the enzyme amylase, which can damage the already compromised lip tissue. Honey can be used on the lips as a natural remedy.

But he has ate me out... and one time he had what looked like cracked lips... on both corners of his lips. and he ate me out... after i realized they were there it was to late... i freaked out but it was on both sides... and looked like cracked dry lips... anyways that was about 3 weeks ago.. well about a week ago i thought i had an UTI. Hard to pee. Felt like i had to pee all the time. hurt before i pee'd.

Or a bad case of Chapped lips , a condition whereby the lips become dry and possibly cracked. It may be caused by the evaporation of moisture. Lip balm can often provide temporary relief, though it should not be used extensively. One should avoid licking their lips as saliva contains the enzyme amylase, which can damage the already compromised lip tissue. Honey can be used on the lips as a natural remedy.

s in the blue tube) almost constantly and drinking about 8 glasses of water a day. My lips were the opposite though. They split and cracked on the outside but itched and swelled on the inside. It may seem like a pain but the chapstick really help- and I do mean specifically that one. Mine got so bad that neosporin, abreva, blistex, carmax, even bagbalm did nothing for it. I tried everything and that's all that works if I let it get bad.

Hello, I recently met a girl through friends and we kissed while she laid on top of me. She had a nose ring on. She pushed her face against mine pretty hard as it was a bit of a rough kiss and might have irritated her nose. She then told me she tasted some blood, I was a little puzzled at first because I didn't understand what she meant until she raised her head and her nose was bleeding a lot. I didn't taste any blood but a little might have gone into my mouth.

Fast forward a couple of months, the dry cracked corners of my mouth seem to have spread downwards towards my chin and are larger and redder now. Also, there is redness that is slightly flaky on either side of my nose extending down to the top of my mouth. As well there is similar redness on the middle of my forehead above my eyebrows. Also there are little patches of redness directly below and above the center of my lips. My question is could this have been caused by the yeast infection?

Cracked lips on side of mouth

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