What causes chapped lips in children?

Since children are still young and have not fully developed in all aspects, their body resistance is weak and they are prone to physical abnormalities. Children are especially prone to dry lips or corners of mouth. Some children even have chapped lips. This can affect children's eating and can easily affect their appetite and cause malnutrition. So what causes chapped lips in children? Let's find out together.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, dryness is the main air in autumn and winter, and dryness is drying and easily consumes body fluids. There are no sweat glands on human lips, so they cannot secrete sweat to replenish the loss of surface moisture. The lubrication of the lips is maintained by the sebum secreted by the sebaceous glands. Under normal circumstances, the lips generally do not chapped. In the dry and cold autumn and winter, the secretion of sebaceous glands decreases, making lips prone to chapped and painful. In addition, since there are fewer fresh vegetables in autumn and winter than in summer, some children are partial and picky eaters, which can easily lead to insufficient intake of riboflavin in the body. This is also a reason why children are prone to chapped lips and corners of mouth in autumn and winter.

Some children often feel uncomfortable with dry and cracked lips and corners of mouth and like to lick their upper and lower lips and corners of mouth with their tongues to let the saliva moisten their lips and corners of mouth. As a result, the more they lick, the drier their lips and corners of mouth become, and they may even crack, bleed, and become more painful. This is because saliva contains substances such as protein and amylase. When licked on the lips, the cold wind blows, the water evaporates and the amylase sticks to the lips, making the dryness worse. In addition, many children like to eat oranges. Since oranges are aromatic, spicy and warm fruits, eating too much can easily cause dryness and heat, consume qi and damage body fluids, causing children to get "inflamed" and have symptoms such as dry lips and sore throat. The more oranges they eat, the drier their lips become. Therefore, children should not eat too many oranges.

You should drink more water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. It is advisable to eat more foods such as pears, water chestnuts, lotus roots, etc. which have the effects of promoting salivation, quenching thirst, and nourishing yin. After the illness, wash your lips with warm water 2 to 3 times a day, and then apply 70% glycerol solution; you can also apply the oil in the vitamin E capsules to your lips and corners of your mouth; you can take vitamin B2 orally, 5 to 10 mg each time, three times a day. Patients with dry throat and lips can use 30 grams of Tremella fuciformis, 15 grams each of Imperata cyperus and Ophiopogon japonicus, decoct in water and drink as tea. At the same time, educate children to give up the habit of licking their lips and corners of their mouth.

The above is the reason why children have chapped lips. We must actively treat the child when this happens. While the child's diet should be comprehensive, reasonable, and taking medicine, we should also pay attention to improving the child's physical fitness and do some appropriate exercise to improve the child's resistance and immunity.