Angular Cheilitis Treatment & Cure

Angular Cheilitis (also known as perleche and angular stomatitis) is both an embarrassing and uncomfortable skin issue that occurs around your lips.

This short article will help you to better understand angualr cheilitis so you can not only eliminate the discomfort but also cure yourself of it more quickly.

Angular cheilitis is where one or both corners of your mouth become inflamed from a combination of stress/trauma and excess moisture from saliva. The bacteria from your saliva will settle in the cracks in the corner of your mouth and the excess stress or trauma will prevent your body from being able to kill the bacteria.

Eventually the bacteria will cause your lip corners to chap, scab over, and crack causing painful lesions on the corners of your mouth that will take weeks to heal naturally.

Angular cheilitis is a tricky skin disorder/illness. Normally your mouth is one of the fastest healing parts of your body, but the bacteria/fungus from the angular cheilitis prevents your body from being able to heal itself. This combined with the fact that many people don't really understand what angular cheilitis is and may think they are suffering from severely chapped lips can make the lesions last for several weeks.

Normally most people will try to relieve their discomfort by applying chapstick and neosporin to their lips regularly throughout the day. But since this doesn't kill the bacteria (which lets your body heal itself) it doesn't necessarily do anything besides temporarily relive pain.

If you attempt to just let your body heal itself, it can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months before you will be able to rid yourself of your chapped lips corners.

I stumbled upon this technique by accident the last time I had angular cheilitis. I had been suffering from it for two full months and had a pretty bad case of it. At that time I didn't really understand what it was, but I was applying hourly doses of chapstick and neosporin to my lips so they would heal before my family's beach vacation.

Long story short, it didn't go away during the beach vacation. But after day two of vacation I looked in the mirror and noticed that my angular cheilitis had completely disappeared. And even better, there were no signs of a scab, scar, or any mark on my lips to indicate I ever had an issue with my lips at all. It didn't take me long to realize that the combination of sunlight, chlorine from the pool, and salt water from the ocean had quickly killed the bacteria and sped up the healing process.

With this being said, the best way to get rid of angular cheilitis quickly and naturally is to soak your lips in salt water by either going to the beach or swimming in a salt water pool. Not only will this kill the bacteria, but it will also increase the healing time as well.

Of course, if you don't have access to a salt water pool or the beach, this resource offers several angular cheilitis treatments that will do the same.