What to do if your baby's lips peel

Whenever the weather gets dry in autumn and winter, both the elderly and children will experience lip peeling. In mild cases, it will only cause a little discomfort when eating. In severe cases, the lips may even bleed, causing great inconvenience. Especially when children's lips peel, mothers who love their children will feel distressed. Peeling lips of babies will make children feel inconvenient, but children can't help but want to tear off the peeling skin. So what should we do if babies have peeling lips?

1. Why do babies’ lips become dry and peeling in winter?

In fact, the skin tissue structure layer on the lips is very thin, only one-third the thickness of the body skin. Moreover, since it has no sweat pores and sebaceous glands, it does not have the protective melanin. Therefore, they are naturally very sensitive to the increasingly dry air, low temperatures and other environments in winter. If they are not properly maintained, dryness and lack of moisture will be the most obvious reaction. In addition, the muscles of the lips are thin and tender, and are easily affected by smiling, drinking water, eating, and talking, so the dryness of the lips is more obvious in winter.

Babies have higher water content and are more susceptible to cold winds, which causes moisture in their lips to evaporate faster. In addition, babies are lively and active, laugh and talk a lot, which makes them more likely to crack and bleed due to dryness.

2. External care to save chapped lips

1. Buy a children's mask for your baby

In winter, when you take your baby out, you can put a mask on your baby to block the biting cold wind outside. The purpose of wearing a mask is simple: to maintain the temperature and humidity of the lips to prevent dehydration and dryness. In addition, it can also prevent babies from inhaling haze in hazy weather.

2. Massage your baby’s lips frequently

Mothers can give their babies lip massages often when they are free. Just dip some honey on a cotton pad and gently apply it on your baby's lips before going to bed every night. Then gently massage with your fingers to help promote blood circulation, allow the lips to get oxygen, increase nutrition, and the lips will become moisturized.

3. Apply olive oil and milk powder paste before going to bed

Apply olive oil to your baby's lips before going to bed and let it absorb for more than 20 minutes, then wipe it off. Alternatively, you can mix a small amount of milk powder with water to make a paste, and apply it thickly on your lips to act as a lip mask. This will allow your baby's lips to be adequately moisturized.

4. Cut the baby's lip skin as soon as possible

If you find that your baby's lips have raised lip skin that needs to be treated, you can use small scissors to carefully cut it off. Never use your hands or pliers to tear your lips, so as not to tear your lips, causing pain, bleeding, or even infection. This is what is medically known as the "danger triangle."

The above are the solutions to your baby’s peeling lips. The peeling of babies' lips is largely caused by lack of water, so you must make sure your babies drink plenty of water to replenish the lost water. Also, you should feed your babies more fruits and vegetables to supplement vitamins. This is the only way to solve this problem. I also hope that your babies can grow up happily.