What are the obvious symptoms of lip inflammation

Cheilitis, also known as cheilitis, is a relatively common type of skin inflammation, especially in spring and autumn when the weather is relatively dry, which can easily lead to symptoms of dryness and desquamation in the lips. In more severe cases, swelling and erosion may occur, causing pain that may cause the patient to be afraid to eat and a loss of appetite. In addition, allergic cheilitis is also common, mostly caused by allergies.

Symptoms of cheilitis

1. It can occur on both the upper and lower lips, but is more common on the upper lip. There are two manifestations:

1) Dryness and desquamation

The red part of the lips is dry, flaky and cracked. There is oozing or bleeding from the tear. Some patients may be asymptomatic, while others may feel dry, burning, itchy or painful lips. Some bite their lips to relieve the itching or tear off scales, which worsens the condition.

2) Exudative crusting

The lips are swollen, eroded, with inflammatory exudate and bleeding, forming pus or blood scabs. When the scabs are torn off, the eroded surface will remain. The pain and scabs make it difficult to move the lips. The disease may be mild or severe at times, recur repeatedly, and persist without recovery.

2. Symptoms include dryness, scaling and cracking of the red part of the lips.

Severe symptoms include lip swelling and erosion, inflammatory exudate, formation of blood or pus scabs, obvious pain, and a burning sensation. Severe patients will experience symptoms such as high fever, muscle and joint pain, headache, cough, and erythematous blisters all over the body. After the blisters rupture, large areas of skin will fall off, which is called "toxic epidermal necrolysis."

1) Allergic cheilitis is more common on the lower lip, with erosion of the lip vermilion, light yellow exudate not exceeding the edge of the lip vermilion, mild swelling of the lips, and lip eversion. In severe cases, the swelling is obvious and there is bleeding or ulceration, and blood scabs are formed. When the scabs are removed, a bleeding wound surface is exposed, or there is pus and blood. Local burning, pain, dryness, and itching. The pain is aggravated by friction, and lip movement is restricted. The disease is difficult to cure and can last for several months or longer. The submandibular lymph nodes are swollen and there is local pigmentation. The symptoms of benign lymphoproliferative cheilitis are similar to those of photosensitive cheilitis, with erosion, ulcers, pus and blood crusts, desquamation, chapped skin, pain, swelling, etc.

2) This disease is equivalent to the category of "lip wind" in traditional Chinese medicine. The disease is mostly caused by Yangming stomach heat, spleen meridian blood dryness, or combined with wind evil and the combination of wind and heat.