Do You Have Bumps in the Corner of the Mouth? Can You Say Angular Chelitis?
Bumps, or crusty skin in the corner of the mouth is often a sign you may have chelitis.
Angular Cheleitis or Perleche is an infection of the mouth area and particularly affects the sensitive skin at the corners of the lips.
The ulcers, or legions look like paper cuts and split painfully when the sufferer opens their mouth to eat, or drinks acidic beverages like orange juice.
Often a fungal infection of the mouth accompanies the bumps or crusty skin at the corners of the lips.
Canidia (thrush) infects the mouth cavity, causing swelling of the tongue.
The tongue becomes coated with a whitish hue.
The legions themselves at the corner of the mouth are a characteristic whitish hue also.
Underneath the skin is split and raw.
and reddened.
If you have the characteristic dry flaky skin at the corners of the mouth where the skin splits commonly and sometimes bleeding occurs, it may be Angular Chelitis.
Angular Chelitis is not contagious, however the accompanying yeast infection or oral thrush can be.
However, if you just have Chelitis, you can kiss anybody you want and not fear spreading the affliction.
However, with crusty raw bumps at the corner of your lips, I am not certain you will find someone willing to kiss you back! Affection is a thing we start to lose during an Angular Chlitis attack.
Even if someone did want you to kiss them, often sufferers feel uncomfortable and self conscious by the unsightly legions and avoid affection in the first place.
Angular Chelitis is not dangerous or life threatening.
However it is painful and quite debilitating because of where the infection is.
The unsightly legions are right on the face and the condition is often very persistent and hard to treat.
Angular Chelitis is traced back to a vitamins and minerals deficiency, particularly a lack of iron (red meat is rich in iron) However, patients often report an attack coming on at the onset of winter or a few cold days.
As an illness, Chelitis progresses in stages.
Early chelitis is the much more common chapped lips.
The lips dry out to a painful level.
Getting red raw and split if you smile for example.
The more advanced version, progresses to the corner of the lips, centering most of the bacterial infection there.
If left unchecked it eventually grows quite out of hand and the Candida bacteria flourish throughout the entire mouth and tongue.
By the large majority, people with Angular Chelitis would virtually do anything to rid themselves of this insidious affliction.
Angular Cheleitis or Perleche is an infection of the mouth area and particularly affects the sensitive skin at the corners of the lips.
The ulcers, or legions look like paper cuts and split painfully when the sufferer opens their mouth to eat, or drinks acidic beverages like orange juice.
Often a fungal infection of the mouth accompanies the bumps or crusty skin at the corners of the lips.
Canidia (thrush) infects the mouth cavity, causing swelling of the tongue.
The tongue becomes coated with a whitish hue.
The legions themselves at the corner of the mouth are a characteristic whitish hue also.
Underneath the skin is split and raw.
and reddened.
If you have the characteristic dry flaky skin at the corners of the mouth where the skin splits commonly and sometimes bleeding occurs, it may be Angular Chelitis.
Angular Chelitis is not contagious, however the accompanying yeast infection or oral thrush can be.
However, if you just have Chelitis, you can kiss anybody you want and not fear spreading the affliction.
However, with crusty raw bumps at the corner of your lips, I am not certain you will find someone willing to kiss you back! Affection is a thing we start to lose during an Angular Chlitis attack.
Even if someone did want you to kiss them, often sufferers feel uncomfortable and self conscious by the unsightly legions and avoid affection in the first place.
Angular Chelitis is not dangerous or life threatening.
However it is painful and quite debilitating because of where the infection is.
The unsightly legions are right on the face and the condition is often very persistent and hard to treat.
Angular Chelitis is traced back to a vitamins and minerals deficiency, particularly a lack of iron (red meat is rich in iron) However, patients often report an attack coming on at the onset of winter or a few cold days.
As an illness, Chelitis progresses in stages.
Early chelitis is the much more common chapped lips.
The lips dry out to a painful level.
Getting red raw and split if you smile for example.
The more advanced version, progresses to the corner of the lips, centering most of the bacterial infection there.
If left unchecked it eventually grows quite out of hand and the Candida bacteria flourish throughout the entire mouth and tongue.
By the large majority, people with Angular Chelitis would virtually do anything to rid themselves of this insidious affliction.
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