best treatment for severely cracked lips

[Guest guest]

My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry.  They are painful to

even look at! 

 

What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

 

What is the best supplement for this?

 

What is the best topical treatment? 

 

We have tried several things with only limited help...

[Guest guest]

Our son deals with cracked lips during the colder seasons. What

worked best for us was a mixure of bee's wax, royal jelly and raw

honey. We use this at bedtime and by morning they look and feel good

as new. Raw honey truly does the trick all by itself and I have to

put a thin layer on his lips while he's sleeping. It's truly the

best!

When I say (RAW) honey I mean absolutly no processing done to it.

Hope this helps, Laurie

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> What is the best topical treatment? 

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[Guest guest]

Are you giving Vitamin A? Chapped lips are the first sign of too much Vitamin

A. Is he licking his lips?

[ ] best treatment for severely cracked lips

My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry. They are painful

to even look at!

What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

What is the best supplement for this?

What is the best topical treatment?

We have tried several things with only limited help...

[Guest guest]

No, he is not on vit. A and he is not licking his lips...

From: <Ladyshrink111@...>

Subject: Re: [ ] best treatment for severely cracked lips

Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:21 PM

Are you giving Vitamin A? Chapped lips are the first sign of too much Vitamin A.

Is he licking his lips?

[ ] best treatment for severely cracked lips

My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry. They are painful to

even look at!

What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

What is the best supplement for this?

What is the best topical treatment?

We have tried several things with only limited help...

[Guest guest]

Alyssa,

We struggled with this all last winter/spring. Turns out our son was

allergic to soy - and many lip balms use soybean oil as an

ingredient, if not the main ingredient. Once we got the soy out of

his diet, and started rubbing organic 100% coconut oil, or jojoba oil

or shea butter on his lips they healed right up. Getting yeast under

control helped, too.

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> Are you giving Vitamin A? Chapped lips are the first sign of too

much Vitamin A. Is he licking his lips?

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> My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry. They

are painful to even look at!

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> What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

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> What is the best supplement for this?

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> What is the best topical treatment?

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> We have tried several things with only limited help...

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[Guest guest]

I'm sure Dana will chime in, but B2 is supposed to help. B1 and B12 deplete

B2 is what she said, and she's right - I started taking mB12 when my lips

started to crack. I stopped the B12 and just started B2 today.

Or EFAs?

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Thanks .  He is already soy free in his diet but I never thought to look at

the contents of the chap stick!  We have tried Vaseline and Aquaphor but they

just aren't working.  I think yeast is playing an ugly role in this symptom for

him too.

From: <sunshine369@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: best treatment for severely cracked lips

Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 2:31 AM

Alyssa,

We struggled with this all last winter/spring. Turns out our son was

allergic to soy - and many lip balms use soybean oil as an

ingredient, if not the main ingredient. Once we got the soy out of

his diet, and started rubbing organic 100% coconut oil, or jojoba oil

or shea butter on his lips they healed right up. Getting yeast under

control helped, too.

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> Subject: Re: [ ] best treatment for severely cracked

lips

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> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:21 PM

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> Are you giving Vitamin A? Chapped lips are the first sign of too

much Vitamin A. Is he licking his lips?

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> My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry. They

are painful to even look at!

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> What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

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> What is the best supplement for this?

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> What is the best topical treatment?

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> We have tried several things with only limited help...

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Carmex is very popular with soldiers, who have to deal with the

weather in the field for sometimes several weeks at a time (like in

the Mojave Desert, where we have a training center). I use that. But

as someone else suggested: read the ingredients first and make sure

it doesn't have any offenders for your kid.

Good luck with this.

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.org

http://www.kidslikemine.org

http://www.solanorail.org

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> My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry. They

are painful to even look at!

> What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

At my house, B2 deficiency, especially if you are giving B1 and/or

B12, because those deplete B2.

Dana

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Alyssa,

Look at the ingredients in vaseline and aquaphor - chemicals. One of

them may be making it worse.

It took me a few months on soy-free diet to figure out there was

soybean oil in lip balm, too. Also I found that the " fancy smelly "

hand soap from the smelly bath mall store that my mom has at her

house has soybean oil in it - in addition to all the chemicals - so

watch out for that too. Also look at childrens body wash and lotions.

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[Guest guest]

Olive oil brings me relive within minutes! When it wears of, apply it again.

Good luck!

Leo

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[Guest guest]

Sorry, I've not followed the thread and I may be repeating, but here

extra b vitamins, esp b2, help. Both dh and ds have this problem.

Anita

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> My poor boys lips are cracked and bleeding they are so dry.  They are

painful to even look at! 

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> What does dry and cracked lips indicate?

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> What is the best supplement for this?

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> What is the best topical treatment? 

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> We have tried several things with only limited help...

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[Guest guest]

LANOLIN is our favorite overall.

For outings, we take along Burt's Bees honey type for the kids, Burt's Bees

standard lip balm

for me (peppermint is too much for the kids to take sometimes)