What should I do: my lips crack?
Crack on the lip - a thing not dangerous, but veryunpleasant and painful. Cracking lips can for a variety of reasons, ranging from vitamin deficiency and ending with dehydration of the body. More details about all possible causes are told in the article Why the lips crack. And we'll talk about what to do if your lips are still cracked.
Cracked lips: problem solving
First of all try to get rid of the badThe habit of constantly licking your lips (if you have one). If the lips all the time seem too dry to you, apply a special lip balm or hygiene lipstick several times a day.
If the cracks on the lips you are having at the endwinter, and the corners of the lips are especially cracking, perhaps the reason lies in winter avitaminosis. In this case, the increased use of vitamins A and E will help to correct the situation. Enter into your diet products with a high content of the abovementioned vitamins, including nuts, vegetable and butter, egg yolks, peaches, apricots, carrots. If this is not enough, conduct a course of vitamin therapy - during the month, regularly every day take one capsule of the pharmacy complex vitamin Aevit. For greater effect, crush the "Aevita" capsule, shift its contents with one teaspoon of vegetable oil and this vitamin oil solution several times a day lubricate chapped lips.
Another very common reasonthe formation of cracks on the lips - a lack of vitamin B2 in the body (riboflavin) and iron deficiency. Eat plenty of all kinds of nuts, mushrooms, cheese and cottage cheese, dishes from beef and chicken liver - and you will forget about what chapped lips are.
Help to eliminate the trouble of cracked lips you can also the following recipes:
- For faster healing of cracks, overlay onsick lips, vitamin masks from carrots. Rub carrots on a fine grater, into a tablespoon of carrot puree drip a little vegetable oil and this mixture thickly spread cracked lips. After about ten minutes, wipe off the carrot puree with lips with a gauze napkin.
- Natural bee honey perfectly softens the lipsand promotes the healing of cracks. Every evening for a quarter of an hour, apply a thick layer of thick honey on your lips. After the specified time, the honey should be washed with warm water, and slightly moistened lips with vegetable oil.
- To soften the skin and prevent formationlip cracks can be lubricated with petroleum jelly, sour cream, butter or vegetable oil, apply on them curd masks, masks from cucumber or apple puree.
- Speedy healing of already formed crackscontributes to the juice of aloe. Just break off the aloe leaf, rinse it and cut it along. Lubricate the juicy inner flesh of the leaf with chapped lips several times a day, and cracks on them will quickly tighten.
If your lips are prone to cracking,regularly use hygienic lipstick or special moisturizing balms or lip creams, which now exists a great variety. To heal the cracks on the lips you will also be helped by some medications, such as "Actovegin gel" or "Solcoseryl".
