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Home Remedy Topic: Angular Cheilitis11 home remedy submissions for Angular Cheilitis
| Submitted at 2010-06-29 07:38:24 from 86.44.91.219 |
Suffered with long & repeated bouts of it. Finally came across the treatment of a possibly unrelated fungal disease which a doctor has cured for years with one simple product. So, open your kitchen cabinet: Sodium Bicarbonate - baking soda.
I had the typical sores at the edge of my mouth - gone within a day. Worked overnight. That was many months ago. Had been to the doctor who had given me an anti-fungal cream (at least he had the correct diagnosis) and it did Nothing. Changes in weather, stress & tiredness. Nothing has brought back the sores like I used to have every few months once it started. Just dab some baking soda on the sores with your finger, rub it a bit if you like, let a tiny bit of powder stay in the sore for a short while. You might feel the slightest bit of burning - it goes to work immediately. About a month ago, when overly tired, I thought I felt the very initial sign of reocurrence. A dab of baking soda. Gone. Forgot all those scam sites selling you who knows what. Smile again all the time for a few cents worth of baking soda!
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| Submitted by Dick at 2010-06-15 10:22:27 from 72.173.32.38 |
I too suffer with Angular cheilitis, had dry flaking lips for years before any open sores developed, but when they did, it was with a vengance. I now have the open sores healed, but the lips and corners of the mouth are still very sore/tender. I was wondering if this is a permanent thing a person has to deal with??? Will they ever feel normal again, or once you have AC, is it always there and ready to flare up again??? I'd appreciate any comments.
The therapy I used was the dish washing soap, a prescription anti bacterial & anti fungal from my Dr. The anti bacterial was very expensive and one used to fight tough infections such as staph
I sure can relate to the drooling, and sure wished there was an explaination for that, as I never used to have that problem. Mine is not only at night, but anytime during the day, it'll happen. I'm a 70 y.o. man and contribute it to the muscles in the face not being as taunt and the sagging, almost permanent frown resulting from that. At any rate I try to keep smiling, even though it's a trial. I certainnly don't have any abundance of saliva, just wished it would stay inside my mouth. Dick
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| Submitted by Dee at 2010-03-22 18:01:29 from 72.65.71.193 |
Try Thermazene (silver sulfadiazine). Please go ahead and google it. I had severe cracking, nearly nonstop with bleeding, etc. It was MISERABLE!
I tried this cream twice a day for the first week,then & now, I use it nightly before bed.
Only came back once after three nights of not using it.
WELL worth a try!
Good luck!
P.S. I found it at Amazon.
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| Submitted by Dee at 2010-03-12 13:04:14 from 151.205.28.56 |
I can most certainly relate as I have dealt with all the negative aspects of Angular Chelitis, having had it in active form myself for close to a year, if not more. I tried everything & finally came across this stuff.
I came across an article that said Angular Chelitis can be either yeast caused, bacterial, and fungal, or a combination of the three, which I believe I have had.
So, I did some research & found this ointment. I used it twice daily for a week, then at bed time by the beginning of the second week.
Thermazine
(Silver Sulfadiazine) Cream 1%
Google it.
I bought it on Amazon, but you can probably find it elsewhere. I did not need a prescription. I have NO connection financially to gain. I only want to help others get relief & their smiles back!
I haven't had a recurrence in over a MONTH! I waited till I was crack free to spread the news. lol
It had been active for what seemed like an eternity. I was SO miserable with the cracking, pain & bleeding, not to mention embarrassed by the way it looked.
Best of luck & God bless!
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| Submitted by JB at 2010-02-16 10:36:32 from 75.73.247.231 |
I used a combination of the other items posted here.
My symptoms were deep cuts in both corners of my mouth and small bumps/lesions that started spreading from those corner cuts onto the skin around my mouth.
I washed the corners of my mouth with antibacterial soap twice a day and covered the corners with Aquaphor (which is a thick lotion similar to Vaseline). I used Blistex (the ointment, not the balm) on my lips. I used Neosporin (a topical antibiotic) on the skin around my mouth. Neosporin is not meant to be eaten, so don't use it on your mouth!
I also started taking a good multi-vitamin in case it was a lack of vitamins causing the problem. I used GNC Women's Ultra Mega vitamin in case this was caused by a lack of vitamins.
This cleared up all symptoms in several days.
The skin around my mouth really itched while it was healing. If that's really bothering you, a hydrocortizone cream would probably help.
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| Submitted by P Bow at 2010-02-14 19:24:18 from 98.249.92.92 |
I have had angular cheilitis for about a year. Tried many remedies (home and prescription) without good results. Finally bought several lip sticks (chap lip sticks) and one worked overnight. It is CARMEX (original) (moisturizing lip balm) a sunscreen, SPF15. I found these at Walgreen and also Walmart. My lips felt better the first time I applied it, within a few hours the dry skin peeled off my lips, overnight the inside of my lips peeled. The redness at the corners of my mouth faded gradually within 6 or 7 days. I continue to use this, applying it several times a day. Remember this is a
chap stick type product by CARMEX. My lips began feeling better within an hour or two of initial application. Also, be sure to brush teeth at bedtime.
Simple and effective.
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| Submitted by Gabe at 2009-12-29 03:04:15 from 71.202.41.55 |
Ok, so my symptoms were very serious. My lips were inflamed all the time, cracking, peeling, drying out and lesions almost every week. I tried all types of lip balms, almost everyone on the market. With no help solving the bacterial infections, I ventured to out side sources, hydrocortisone wasn't working, nor was any type of lip balm. So her is what I found after paying 50$ for a 'kit'. It seriously saved my lips. The embarrassment was more than enough to make me try this, and after few sessions, I found that the lesions worked.
First get Antibacterial dishwashing soap. Any type of over the counter dishwashing soap as long as it is ANTIBACTERIAL, lemon works well.
Second some Vaseline or petroleum.
Third some non alovera tissues for blowing your nose.
Third. Vitamin b.
First get a extremely clean bowl, wash it out and fill with warm water. Soak your lips in the bowl for a half minute to a minute to get the lesions to open up and become soft tissue. Make sure they are damp.
Wash your hands and then the bowl with the antibacterial soap.
Take your Clean washed hands and apply about a pennies worth of the antibacterial soap to your index fingers and start to wash your wet lips with it, the lesions will open up. Start a good lather on around your lips taking about a half minute to a minute on each lip, and really work your lips. Be gentle but still make sure to thoroughly lather them up.
leave your lips with the lather on and wash your hands thoroughly to get all of the bacteria off you hands, really make sure the bacteria/fungus on you hand are all off. Use warm to hot water.
Them take your clean bowl, fill with warm to hot water, but nothing that will burn you or hurt your face and wash of the soap. Make sure to get it all off. Take your time, wash them really well.
Then re washes your hands to get off that bacteria, thoroughly.
Take the Clean tissues and dab your lips and mouth area, use as many as you need to but DO not use the tissue more than one dab, this why you have a box. Be generous with the tissues since you have a lot of them.
You will feel your lips tighten up; this will make them feel clean, almost totally tight. This is good, it means that your lips are clean of bacteria.
Now take the Vaseline, petroleum jelly, and apply to your lips. This makes the bacteria that was once there, not be able to get air to it .no air= no place for the bacteria to grow. Be generous but not too much, do what you think is ok.
Now let that sit for 2 hours. Do what ever you need to do and then after the 2 hours wipe off the Vaseline with some tissues. This will make the bacteria not be able to grow on your lips and mouth area.
Do this process one more time. It will take about 4 hours or so. But it will totally help. It worked wonders for me.
Now the b12 vitamins are to supplement the lack of b12 that kills off the bacteria, angular cheltis is a lack of b12 in the system, or from what I have heard it is. Now take the vitamin everyday and repeat this process many times as you feel necessary, like me I repeated a few times a weeks for over month. The first time for mild cases should do the trick, but if you are like me and have extremely red sore unhealthy lips. This could take a while.
But it seriously worked for me. I have the occasional outbreak of bacteria, but it is in what I eat. I stay away from alcohol, yeasts, bread and cheese. It kind of sucks but it is what I need to do to keep my lips respectable, not embarrassing and to bearable to eat burritos.
I paid 50$ or well my dad paid this, to help me get over it. The pdf file was kinda worth all of this knowledge.I pass it on to you, cause I know how it feels to be looked at and judged by this.
Good luck. And you are not alone.
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| Submitted by L.R. at 2009-12-09 12:38:34 from 173.53.144.34 |
I have diabetes and I took some vit.B 50 for a few days then some iron also. Then i came to this site and read the entries. I found some Tinactin powder for athelete's foot,added some water to form a paste and applied to the corners of my mouth. This is healing up now and the pain is almost gone, I can open my mouth now and eating is so much easier.
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| Submitted by Harrison at 2009-03-15 04:46:32 from 66.191.19.15 |
I was struggling with this problem for a while. I tried a bunch of different ways to get it to heal with cortisone, different anti-fungals etc. From what I've learned about this problem is that it is caused by fungus, and can also be accompanied by a bacterial infection. I believe I developed this problem because I was drooling in the corners of my mouth occasionally during sleep. I've read that other people have developed the same problem from drooling. I believe I have the absolute best way to heal this problem. It involves dietary therapy and a really good topical that works great. The best way to heal the problem is through your diet. Yeast lives best on sugars, and I've found that by reducing them healing is greatly increased. In my case the dietary change was absolutely essential, without it there was no success. Here are some guidelines to help starve the yeast.
1. Avoid all sweeteners like sucrose, fructose, cane sugar, brown rice syrup, beet sugar, glucose.
2. Greatly reduce intake of grains during healing. Especially refined grains like white rice, or white flour.
3. Avoid fruit juice as they are high in sugar. Eat the whole fruit as the fiber will help reduce a spike in blood sugar.
4. Avoid alcohol especially beer and wine because they contain yeast.
5. Avoid other fermented foods, yogurt is ok.
6. eat mostly fresh fruits and vegetables, good protein like fish, chicken, turkey, avoid red meat.
Next I found a great topical ointment that works for both bacterial and fungal infections so will take care of both problems if both exist. It is very similar to a moisturizer so it can be put on several times a day but can't be noticed. The stuff is a little expensive but lasts a long time. It works really well for helping heal acne too. It is called Emugency first aid spray their website is
If you do what I said above it will work. Let me know about your success.
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| Submitted at 2009-03-12 21:41:30 from 76.120.194.99 |
1. To prevent or treat mild cases: stop using any kind of 'oral rinse' before going to bed at night -- no Listerine (dries out your mouth) and no weird calcium stuff (gives bacteria stuff to feed on). Coat the corners of your mouth liberally with Carmex (the kind in the little pot with the yellow lid.
2. To treat more serious cases...use a cotton swap to apply .05% hydrocortisone to the affected area 2x per day. Use the Carmex as well.
3. If the hydrocortisone on its own doesn't work, try a VERY SMALL DAB of Lamisil (yes, the athlete's foot cream) on each corner of your mouth. You aren't supposed to put it on your face, but sometimes it's the only thing that works!! You may need a tiny bit of moisturizer over it, too, as it can dry out skin.
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