What to do if baby's lips get inflamed

Because babies are just born, they are very fragile in all aspects and are prone to illness. Because of the diet, it is easy to get angry. What to do when baby’s lips get inflamed? Many parents often feel troubled by this and don’t know what appropriate measures to take. In fact, it is not that difficult to solve and treat baby’s lip inflammation. Today I will introduce some good methods to you.

1. Folk remedies

(1) Wash the affected area at the corner of your mouth with rice water three times a day.

(2) Clean the affected corners of your mouth with light salt water. After they are dry, apply the pre-ground vitamin B2 to the corners of your mouth, once after meals and before bedtime. It will generally take three days to take effect.

(3) Take vitamin B2, 2-4 mg three times a day. In addition, take vitamin B complex, 1-2 tablets three times a day.

(4) You can pierce the cod liver oil tube, squeeze out the oil and apply it to the sore corners of your mouth. You can also crush the vitamin B2 into a fine powder and sprinkle it on the affected area.

(5) If you are deficient in vitamin B2 and cod liver oil pills, you can also use the overflow water from steamed rice or persimmon cream to treat it. Apply them to the affected area twice a day and it can also be cured.

(6) If the corners of the mouth are cracked and bleeding, the wound should be washed with warm water or salt water first. After it is slightly dry, apply antibiotic ointment, such as chloramphenicol ointment, or use cod liver oil riboflavin paste and take riboflavin orally. When scabs begin to form on the wound, do not tear off the dry scabs forcibly. Let them heal on their own and then fall off. If combined with Candida albicans infection, 5% clotrimazole ointment can be applied externally.

2. Treatment Misunderstandings

(1) Keep giving your child water

Letting children drink a lot of water in a short period of time will indeed have a "diuretic" effect, but it will also reduce the body's water content and aggravate the dehydration condition.

(2) Applying gentian violet to your child on your own

Applying gentian violet will make the corners of the mouth drier, aggravate the cracks, and even cause blisters, ulcers, erosions and whitening around the child's mouth, and even bleeding.

(3) Apply toothpaste, lotion, or balm to your child

These may cause secondary local skin infection.

Correct approach: If you find your child's lips are dry, apply a little borax glycerin, lip balm or cooking oil to prevent cracking, and take vitamin B2, 1-2 tablets 3 times a day. If erosion and inflammation have occurred, apply 75% alcohol or 0.2% iodine to the corners of your mouth twice a day.

"Sore corners of the mouth" is medically known as angular cheilitis. It can occur on one side or both sides of the corners of the mouth. At the beginning, the junction of the mucosa and skin at the corners of the mouth becomes white or pale, and then the affected area erodes and softens. There is irritation and pain when opening the mouth, and then ulcers, dry cracks and bleeding appear. There is often secondary infection, and sometimes small pustules and scabs will appear. There is pain, and it is difficult to open the mouth when talking or eating.

Angular cheilitis can be divided into malnutritional angular cheilitis, bacterial angular cheilitis, and fungal angular cheilitis, among which malnutritional angular cheilitis is the most common.

Causes of chapped lips

1. Autumn and winter are windy and rainy, the climate is dry, and the skin is prone to cracking. In late autumn and early winter, the weather is relatively dry, and people's lips and the skin around them are prone to cracking.

2. The diet is too refined and picky. Some children have bad habits of partiality and picky eating, eat less vegetables and fruits, lack vitamin C, B2 and zinc, which makes them more likely to have dry and chapped corners of the mouth.

3. Bad living habits, often licking the corners of the mouth. Some babies have a habitual action when they feel their lips are dry, that is, they like to lick their lips with their tongue. When the climate is dry, the saliva evaporates quickly, and the more you lick your lips, the drier they become, causing them to crack and become inflamed.

What should I do if my baby’s lips get inflamed? Because babies are very fragile, you can't use some methods casually. In fact, some folk remedies are really useful. If you don’t believe in folk remedies, you can go to the hospital and get the right medicine for your baby’s condition so that your baby can recover sooner.