After entering the winter, in addition to the cold, everyone feels the most is dry, everywhere to dry!
Even the water spirit baby began to dry up. Especially the lips, at every turn, are red hair dry and peeling, and even cracks and bleeding.
Every baby with a cracked mouth will be followed by a mother who "urges the baby to drink water".
In winter, the lips are dry, can drinking water solve it? How to tell if a child has cheilitis?
Today, Dou Miao's mother will come to tell you about the lips.
01
Babies always have dry lips
It is quite possible that it is missing!
Lips are inherently more delicate than other body parts!
The skin on the lips is thinner, there are no sweat glands, not only can not secrete sweat, but also secrete less oil, even the protective pigment is very small.
Coupled with the cold winter and low humidity, the moisture on the lips evaporates easily.
But in addition, the following unhealthy habits are also responsible for dry lips!
Without this vitamin, the baby's lips are not dry
Vitamin B2 is a nutrient necessary for the formation of the surface of human organs, with the function of protecting the mucous membranes of skin hair follicles and sebaceous glands.
It cannot stay in our bodies and must be replenished daily. If the baby's usual diet is single or picky, it will be seriously deficient in vitamin B2, causing dry lips.
Adult lip balm for babies? Don't mess with it
Some parents want to be convenient and give their own lip balm to the baby.
But unbeknownst to it, adult lip balm adds a lot of chemical and sensitizing ingredients. When applying to the baby, you may also bring germs from your mouth to the baby.
The baby's lip skin is immature and has poor resistance, which can easily lead to damage to the lips or even infection.
Dry skin is not something you can tear if you want to
After the lips are dry, some babies and parents always want to tear up.
The skin of the lips is thin and can be easily torn, causing bleeding and forming wounds. This also allows fungi and bacteria to take advantage of, making the skin of the lips more fragile. So be sure to let your child hold back!
Breathe with your mouth open
Some babies are used to using their mouths to breathe when they usually exercise, sleep, or have a cold and nasal congestion. At this time, a large amount of air passes through the lips, instantly taking away the moisture of the lips, causing the lips to quickly dry out and crack.
02
Baby who loves to lick her lips
Most people can't escape this type of disease
In addition to the above, there is also a habitual action that will also make the baby's lips dry and cracked, aggravated, and even sick!
That's right! It's about licking your lips.
Loving to lick your lips is a common problem for almost every child.
But the result is often more and more licking, drier and drier licking, and finally a vicious circle, and even contracted disease.
There are three main reasons for this
Accelerate evaporation: Saliva is only a temporary moisturizer on the lips, and when the moisture evaporates, it will take away the original moisture of the lips.
Take away the grease: Repeated lip licking will take away the original scarce oil from the lips.
Residual substances cause cheilitis: there is no evaporated digestive enzymes or residues in the saliva stick to the lips, constantly irritating the skin, easily causing dry itchy scabs, cracks, erosions in the lips and surroundings, coupled with bacterial invasion, easy to cause chronic cheilitis or angular cheilitis.
This has cheilitis is not an ordinary dry mouth...
01What is cheilitis?
Mild lips are dry and peeling, red, swollen and painful, severe rupture and bleeding, and even have different symptoms such as blisters and erosions, which directly affect the baby's daily life such as talking and eating.
02How to distinguish dry lips from cheilitis?
The best way to tell the difference between the two is to look at where the inflammation occurs.
Cheilitis is generally in the local position of the upper and lower lips; angular cheilitis is generally at the corner of the mouth, and once infected, it is easy to recur.
Ordinary dry lips, just simple dry peeling, will not appear itching, ulceration and other phenomena. It can be recovered quickly by careful treatment, such as applying lip balm, and usually occurs in autumn and winter.
03 What to do if you already have cheilitis
Usually, after the baby has finished eating, it is necessary to wash the baby's lips and lips with warm water in time to avoid irritating the lips with residues such as soup.
Patiently guide your child to get rid of the habit of licking his lips and biting his fingers.
Once the baby is suspected of being infected with such diseases, you cannot blindly use drugs, go to the hospital in time to consult and prescribe the right medicine.
03
Do these 3 things well
Baby stay away from "dry" lips
In addition to not letting the baby lick his lips, there are 3 things that mothers can do to help keep their baby away from dry lips.
Enhances moisture
Dry and peeling lips have a lot to do with dehydration in the body, so it is important to ensure that your baby has enough water in his body.
When turning on the indoor heating, it is best to put a basin of water or a humidifier to control the humidity at 40%-60%, so that not only the skin is not dry, but also reduces respiratory problems.
Wear a mask on your baby when you go out to avoid the damage to your lips caused by the wind and the sun.
Source: Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents, total water intake includes all water sources, such as milk, vegetables and fruits, boiled water, etc
Vitamin B2 supplementation
In addition to giving the baby more water to drink every day, you should also eat more foods rich in vitamin B2, after all, food supplements are safer!
For example, animal offal: heart, liver, kidneys, etc., eggs and lean meat, various fish (especially eels), legumes and grains. As well as some vegetables and fruits, such as spinach, seaweed, carrots, apples, bananas and so on.
Baby Lip Care
Most of the time, a simple lip care can solve the problem of dry lips.
●Peelable wet compresses: You can apply a hot gauze wet compress for a while before going to bed, gently remove the softened dry skin, and then apply lipstick or other "oil" thickly.
●Babies over 2 years old should use children's lipstick, and babies under 2 years old can apply cod liver oil, olive oil, vitamin E oil, etc.
PS: Children's lipstick is colorless and fragrance-free, try to avoid flavors, peppermint, cinnaminate, lanolin and other irritating and easy to allergy carcinogenic ingredients.
● Lipstick is best applied vertically, 2-3 times a day, the moisturizing effect is better. Because the lip lines are arranged vertically, applying lipstick up and down makes it easier to apply into the gaps of the lip lines.
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