Lipping lips can easily lead to chronic cheilitis. What are the bad habits that hurt your lips?

When the lips are dry, they will peel off, and at this time you will like to lick your lips. Let’s see if licking your lips can easily lead to chronic cheilitis? What are the bad habits that hurt your lips?

Speaking of lips, they will easily peel off in a relatively dry environment. Let's see if licking lips can easily lead to chronic cheilitis? What are the bad habits that hurt your lips?

Lip licking can easily lead to chronic cheilitis

The main symptoms of chronic cheilitis are swelling, infiltration, hypertrophy, poor elasticity, chapped, dry, desquamation and pain of the lip mucosa. The main site of disease is the lower lip, but the upper lip may also be affected.

Li Zhimin, deputy director and associate chief physician of Quanzhou Dermatology Prevention and Treatment Institute, said that chronic cheilitis is a chronic, non-specific inflammatory lesion of the lips, which is mostly caused by various long-term and continuous stimuli, such as dryness and cold, and especially related to bad habits such as licking and biting the lips. When you lick your lips with your tongue, due to the dry air outside, the moisture brought by the saliva will not only evaporate quickly, but will also take away the already little moisture in the lips, causing a vicious cycle of "the more you lick, the drier; the drier, the more you lick; the more you lick, the cracked." In severe cases, it may even cause pigmentation on the skin at the corners of the mouth.

Lips are prone to scabs during this season, which is also related to the bad habit of licking lips. Since saliva contains a variety of digestive enzymes, after the saliva on the lips evaporates, these large molecular proteins will remain on the lips and form a scab together with the shed cells on the lips. Since the tissue under the scab is incomplete, if it is forcibly torn off, there will be more local exudate, thus forming more scabs.

In addition, factors such as mouth breathing (such as snoring habits), fungal infections (such as oral Candida infections caused by dentures), and allergic constitution can also cause or aggravate lip infections.

Bad habits that hurt your lips

1. Licking lips

Many people make the mistake of licking their lips or moistening them with saliva when their lips are dry, thinking that this can temporarily moisten their lips. However, they do not realize that this habit is harmful to the skin around the lips. Licking your lips with your tongue can cause severe inflammation of the lip corners or irritant dermatitis, which is all caused by saliva. Licking your lips will not only fail to moisturize your lips, but will accelerate the evaporation of moisture from your lips, making them drier.

2. Tear off the dead skin on your lips with your hands

When the lips are severely chapped, the lip skin will curl up. At this time, do not tear them with your hands, as this can easily tear the lips, causing pain and bleeding. Frequent and repeated irritation of the lips will cause lip infection. You can use small scissors to cut off the dead skin on your lips, or you can apply honey to your lips for a few days until the chapped lips improve.

3. Wear lipstick every day

The shape of the lips is second only to the eyes in aesthetics. The lips themselves do not have beautiful curves, but they are full of beautiful emotions. Women always have a lipstick in their bags and apply it countless times every day. Wearing lipstick for a long time will affect the health of the whole body. The lanolin and wax in lipstick have strong adsorption capacity, which will adsorb suspended matter such as dust, bacteria and some heavy metal ions in the air onto the oral mucosa. Women will bring the harmful substances attached to the air into their mouths when drinking water and eating, which is harmful to their health. Women are advised to remove their lipstick before eating. Long-term application of lipstick will make the lips drier, so it is recommended that women who love beauty should not wear makeup for one or two days a week to give the lip skin a rest.

4. Using low-quality lipstick

With the arrival of winter, the lipsticks sold in major shopping malls and online stores are varied, with various functions, such as moisturizing, high-efficiency protection, and flavors of lemon, apple, strawberry, etc. However, some of the packaging and printing are very rough. Don't be attracted by the exaggerated advertisements and discount promotions, but go to regular counters to buy them. Some low-quality lipsticks are mostly added with flavors, pigments and other substances, which can easily cause allergies, so you should be careful when purchasing. It is recommended to buy unscented lipsticks. The surface of inferior lipsticks is mostly irregular, and if you look closely you will see tiny swellings, sweating of the paste, etc. If you don't identify them carefully, the lipstick you buy will not only fail to protect your lips, but will hurt your lips instead.

5. Lip biting

Biting your lips and tearing your skin will injure your lips and make the chapped lips worse!

6. Pouting

Pouting when taking selfies or when acting coquettishly or getting mad at your boyfriend will aggravate lip lines.

7. Not removing lip makeup

Not using lip makeup removers or using too much force when removing makeup will aggravate lip lines

It is better not to lick your lips too often, be careful of getting cheilitis, which is not good. You should avoid these bad habits regarding your lips, if you want to have hydrated and tender lips.