I have seen many people around me who came under attack of this disease and found themselves in so much pressure and depression just because their face look weird or it has red mark on the corners of the lips.
First thing i want to clear that you should not give this disease lots of attention so that your life becomes miserable and you forgets each and every single thing which is happening around you. You feel like abandoned by the society, by your friends, by your family but it is not true. Keep try to ignoring it and distract your mind by doing several other things which helps you in distraction.

As you know if we keep on looking on that scar it will lead to several problems and you would face so many difficulties in meeting others and you will find you depressed sitting alone in the single room. Those who are suffering from this disease keep trying to distract your mind doing things which makes you feel good.


Side by side you should also consult your physician regularly to remove any misunderstanding or a myth which has been creating problem or tension in your mind. Just remember these things which may help you in many cases. Do not feel shy or depressed because of this disease.

Having splits and cracks at the corner of your mouth, felling ashamed while going out or in a party, It is angular chelitis. This disease is normally caused by lack of vitamins and caused to people suffering from anaemia. In worse cases, the splits can bleed when the mouth is opened and shallow ulcers or a crust may form. Person can feel pain in eating food or even face problem in smiling. It can cause at less harmful level in winter season which we normally called as problem of chapped lips. Angular cheilitis is caused due to defeciency of vitamins( especially vitamin B2) and to anaemic patients but it is also caused by bacterial infection.

It can be caused by many things including bacteria, fungus, malnutrition, or by an intolerance to a certain type of yeast called candida albicans. This intolerance can lead to a fungal infection that is called candidiasis
If a person is not suffering from serious infection he/she can apply topical antibiotic to the infected area and can get relief.
Terrasil is a remarkable healing gel that stops infection, soothes inflammation and heals sensitive Angular Cheilitis (Perleche) lesions. Terrasil stimulates blood-flow to rapidly repair cracked skin and prevent scarring.
As per precautions one should eat lots of green vegeables, drink loads of water, take multivitamins directly or indirectly. Mostly doctor suggest a 1% hydro cortisone topical cream. This treatment unfortunately has proved to be ineffective and does little to ease the symptoms resulting.
Although there are many different remedies such as an ointment for athletes foot that you can apply to your cracked corners of the mouth,this is a short term cure. Your ultimate goal must be to get rid of this condition permanently and not to ever dread the cold winter months again. Angular cheilitis can be cured with products you have lying around at home,quickly and permanently. We can go for natural remedies as well. Like to cure this disease we can also go for tea tree oil, aloe – vera and petroleum jelly.

Angular cheilitis Results

Many people afraid of this disease because it happens on the face and it can left scar or a red spot on your face if not taken proper care. Angular cheilitis is a disease which is similar to many facial and lips disease and the strange part is that these are so common and natural that can attack to anybody. This disease mainly attacks on older age people though a previous research shown a strange fact that 25% patient are very young . We all know some of us lick our lips during winter when our lips become dry and to make them wet we do suck kind of things which may lead to infection. Same thing happens with children at the age of 2-5. You have seen many children and their mouth which has filled with saliva at the corner. Usually when they sleeps this saliva comes out from their mouth and store at the corner of the lips and transform into this disease.

People feel shy while going and meeting with their family, friends and cousin as they do not want to let them see their weird face. Now come to after infection part. After getting infected one may have red spot on the corner of lips. As the infection grow more, things get more worse and splits and cracks occurs on the infected region that is the corner of our lips. You would see wounds after few days and it pains a lot when we open our mouth to smile or eat or even when we talk.
Angular cheilitis does not only affect your physical appearance but also makes your social life miserable. Doctor has suggested that we should not lick our lips again and again as it will help infection to spread more in our body.

First we should understand about the basics or we can say the root of this disease. So that it will not ever happen to us in future. By just using some antifungal cream or with some antibiotic pills we can not make sure that we got rid of this disease permanently. People have this myth in their mind that somehow this disease is related to cold sore or chapped lips though there are so many similarities between this two like cracks and splits, chapped and dry lips but we should not relate these with each other.

Angular cheilitis is a common disease and can attack anybody at any age group. Sometimes it disappear as the times passes by or with normal antibiotic creams whereas sometimes it takes longer duration and cause a lot pain to the patient that is unbearable. Patient lose self confidence while meeting with his colleagues and friends as it affects physical appearance of the patient.

You woke up one day and saw that your face turned red and some weirds cracks and splits appears on the corner of the mouth. You must be wondering that it could be the cold sore and would be disappear in few days. This wrong strategy can lead to worse impact of this disease. After few days when you will find that it is causing loads of pain,itching,burning then you feel like meeting your doctor as soon as possible. Doctor gave you things which would be going to help you in getting rid of this disease but still it left scar on your face or white spot because of lack of knowledge and wrong step taken by predicting it as a normal cold sore.
Understanding is as necessary as a cure of any disease . It just not only helps patient in instant recovery but also prevent from any future exposure.
There are so many causes of this disease and some of them are as follows

Mostly people in their mid 60s or 70s comes under the attack of this disease. In 2006 New York research has shown few interesting facts and figures. It has stated that people who crossed 50 mark of their age are mostly the one’s who suffered with this disease . Though it can be happen with anybody but as the study shows it mostly common among the older age people.
This disease can takes place because of non stop licking lips or saliva which comes down from the mouth and stored on the corner of the lips, Mostly during sleep.
Study has shown that patients who was suffering from this disease also have some problems like :

These few problems are the most common in aged people who are not aware of vitamins and nutrition . They ignore the fact that if they want to say fit and healthy , they should take good care of their diet. Angular cheilitis can be cured in 8-10 days after getting a report of a 10 patients in Us.
Its quite difficult to overcome the problem of older people as their resistance power and body strength is quite less. Healing process can take several days according to a particular person’s recovery .

Symptoms of Angular Cheilitis

When a person is infected with this disease then he finds out that his lips has got deep splits and cracks on the corner . When a patient try to open his mouth to eat or to talk then it start paining . Proper care should be taken of the infected area to heal it as soon as possible otherwise it may effect other areas of the face.

When infection takes place the infected area where splits appear turns red in color . One should not scratch or rub infected area when it itches. Sometimes infected area burns a lot , for that patient can use petroleum jelly or antibiotic cream . Infected area should be washed properly with the antibiotic soap or liquid.

When people open their mouth it results in widening of splits and pus comes out from it.

When this disease attacks someone sores appear on the both sides of the lips. It generally happens in the winters .

How Vitamins and Nutrition helps to cure angular cheilitis

People raises many question about angular cheilitis .They ask why it occurs or what are the cause of this disease. Some of them have tried many cheap products that was advertised with a money back guarantee whereas some of them were used by the patient without any prescription by the doctor.
People may often assume that by taking a pill for a disease they can get rid of it. In that case I would say “NO”. Just remember one thing Its necessary to find the base of the problem first rather than solving it again and again. Same is the case with the patient of angular cheilitis. Study shows that Over 90% of the patients lacks in vitamins and nutrition . Vitamins are necessary for one’s growth and it helps him in staying fit forever. Vitamins and Nutrition is as necessary for the body as bricks for the building. Have you ever seen any building or house without bricks or cement? Same case is with human body also. Vitamins give resistance power to body to fight with bacteria and virus, those are moving around us every time.

Angular cheilitis also comes into action when some bacterial infection attacks our body. IF proper care and treatment would not been given to the victim then infection can make things even more worse. Angular cheilitis makes splits or cracks on the outer region of the lips. Infected area becomes red in color and some swelling also appears. Victim find it difficult to open his mouth as it hurts a lot. Antibacterial pills are available in the market which can help to remove infection and prevent virus to spread more.
If you want to get rid of this disease permanently then you should be careful about your diet . Proper intake of vitamins and nutrition on the regular basis will surely help you to immune your body from such kind of disease.

Home remedies to prevent angular cheilitis

This articles is written after doing a survey of over 450 people and we came on this conclusion that various things if taken carefully and in right quantity can be effective and let us free from these irriotic reddish cracks and splits which hurts a lot.

Most of the people suggested that if proper intake of nutrition has given to the patient than it shows the speed recovery .It reflects that a balanced diet is much important for everybody whether he is in his 20s or 80s.

Some of the doctors recommends after experiencing the result that aloe vera is also plays an important role in healing up of the infection though it is not a permanent cure.

Lips gets dry after infection and people try to lick their lips to make them wet but this may lead to more pain and helps bacteria and fungus to grow more in whole body. They should consider using a lip balm after discussing with the doctor.

These creams can easily be found in the nearby medical stores and one can use on the infected area to get rid of infection.

You should drink loads of water. I am not telling you to have 10 ounces of water a day but atleast 3-4 litres a day will make things difficult for the infection to stay on your face.

This oil has also shown good results after using it on infected persons. You can use this product after consulting your doctor.

Difference between cold sore and angular cheilitis

Cold sore
It is basically cause by the herpes virus. It occurs on lips or around mouth region. People takes it lightly as it is common in winter days and one can get rid of it by putting petroleum jelly or some antibiotic cream.
It normally heals up in few days. Most of the people lick their lips when it occurs to make that area wet.
They keep on doing the same thing which at the end leads to worse effect of this disease. Almost every person gets this cold sore
during winters.Normally it takes 5-10 days in healing process when there is a case of cold sore.

On the other hand angular cheilitis has its own effect and it makes things even more worse.Symptoms of angular cheilitis are mainly few. The infected area becomes reddish in color and some swelling appears on the area, It becomes dry and people try to lick that region to make it wet. When people open their mouth to talk or to eat they find it difficult as it hurts a lot. If proper cure was not given to the patient than crack and splits becomes deeper and wide. The main problem is that once it grows bacteria and fungus can develop in the infected area and can leave worst effects. Sometimes because of carelessness of victims scars, stretch marks remains on their faces forever. So iF you find anything similar happening to your face than just run away and see some doctor around your place or else use our home remedies.