Chapped lips

It's possible! For example, if your lips are chapped, and you keep licking them, (adding what you think would be moisture), it only dries it out more. You need a different kind of moisture that only lip balms contain.

Sounds like some good ol' Chapstick is in your future!

If you are drinking enough of water then it could be from the weather (sun exposure, dry air etc). I would use Vaseline or Aquaphor ointment and during the day any type of lip balm that has a sunscreen protection in it.

I don't know what really causes it. I have noticed that drinking water does help but when it doesn't...I just apply chapstick. Normally the chapstick brands and the sexylips brand works great for my bad chapped lips.

Too much kissing.

I'm really sorry that your lips are so dry, that must be really uncomfortable and frustrating. Since you are drinking quite a bit of water and aside from taking the weather into consideration, make sure you are getting enough vitamins. Vitamin E, vitamin C, and B vitamins (like riboflavin, B2, and folic acid, B9) all play a part in skin health and could be a reason your lips are chapping. You can either take B complex supplement or make sure you're eating beans and legumes, whole grains, and poultry and eggs. Vitamin C is easy to get enough of if your concious of it, eating oranges or dark green veggies like broccoli will give you enough vitamin C quickly. Vitamin E can be taken in a supplement or you could eat a fortified cereal like Total, almonds, peanut butter, or use vegetable oils. If you choose to take a supplement just make sure to stay with inthe RDA of 1.7mg of riboflavin, 400µg of folic acid, 60mg of vitamin C and 30 IU of vitamin E daily. Unitl the vitamins kick in, make sure to use lip balm with vitamin E. Hope this helps you a bit!

Source: Me....I'm in the process of becoming a Registered Dietitian.

:happy: :happy: I agree with Weather seasons changing try burts bees too :-) thanks for the info on chapstick wow Feel better:)

+1 for Burt's Bees. :flowerforyou:

I used to use Carmex, and it works great, but I like Burt's Bees much better. Anything that ChapStick makes just puts a waxy coat on my lips and I have to keep reapplying every 15 minutes!

I have never been much of a water drinker. When I started watching my weight I increased to around 8-10 glasses a day. I also have noticed that my lips become very chapped. It is not the weather. I do not lick my lips. It is from the increase of water consumption - I know this because I tested it by stopping/starting numerous times to see if this was the problem and it is. They get so dry I get fever blisters. It sounds ridiculous because you would think with increased water consumption you would have wonderfully plump and moist lips. :0)

I saw somewhere that it can be a riboflavin or B2 deficiency. I am going to try vitamin B complex - maybe that would help you too? Good luck!

I have extremely bad chapped lips and have for several months. It got so bad that I had to go to the doctor for it. Got blood work done and turned out that I rather severe vitamin D and B deficiency. Now I take a daily supplement of both vitamins and its much better (although not totally gone). I would recommend going to the doctor if it gets to the point where mine was. My doctor also checked for several other things to rule them out, including low white blood cell count.



Also, if you are getting the splits in the corners of your mouth, that is likely a fungal infection. My brother is a periodontist and he sees this all of the time. People generally just think it's chapped lips when it isn't. Antibiotics are needed for this. Best to throw away all of your chapsticks until its better. I swabbed my chapstick and grew cultures just to see what would happen.* Sure enough, had traces of the fungal infection on it. Kind of gross :P

*Microbiology major... so shhhh haha.

I am noticing the same thing. I have been drinking 144 ounces of water each day and my lips are getting chapped. I live in FL, so it is not due to cold.

Vaseline at night helps. If I don't use it every night I get chapped lips badly because without realizing it, I lick my lips all the time. But Vaseline helps me, even with all the lip lickin' that goes on in my life.