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by Dr Umang Khanna (BHMS)
Angular cheilitis is a common skin condition affecting the corners of your mouth. It leads to painful, cracked sores. People often confuse angular cheilitis with cold sores. Unlike cold sores, angular cheilitis isn’t contagious. This condition usually goes away with special skin ointments, medication or diet changes.
Cundurango is best suited for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where painful cracks at the corners of the mouth are present. The cracks can be quite deep. In some cases, the corners of the mouth may be ulcerated.
Graphitis is for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where the corners of the mouth are extremely dry, and rough and have deep cuts. These corners are highly cracked and fissured. Apart from this, it is an excellent medicine to treat cases with eruptions, crusting, or ulcers at the mouth corners. They have a watery, sticky, gluey discharge. It also helps reduce scaliness in eruptions. In many cases, dryness, cracked lips, and a persistent burning sensation are also present with the above symptoms.
Arum Triphillum is prescribed when manage a burning sensation on the lips. The lips in such cases become rough, sore, and cracked, and are accompanied by intense burning. The corners of the mouth are also sore, cracked, and bleeding. Those affected keep on picking their lips frequently.
Petroleum is best suited for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis when there are deep cracks at the mouth corners that bleed often. Along with this, the skin is rough, thick, and hardened. The condition is worse in cold weather. Its use is also made when there appear crusts at the angles of the mouth with redness, burning, itching, and bleeding. Another indication to use it is eruptions at mouth corners with scaliness.
Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis with blisters at the mouth angle Natrum mur is the drug of choice. With this, the corners of the mouth and lips are dry, ulcerated, and sometimes cracked too. Sometimes there are scabs on the lips with burning, smarting sensation and sometimes bleeding.
Merc sol is best suited for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis with ulceration at the corners of the mouth. Pain and soreness is present in these ulcers. Sometimes yellow scabs form at angles of the mouth. Along with this, the lips are dry, cracked, ulcerated and painful to touch. Excessive salivation and bad taste in the mouth may be resent along with some cases of oral thrush (fungal infection in mouth) along with angular stomatitis presenting with above symptoms.
Arenic album is prescribed for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where the burning sensation in the mouth is prominent. Along with there is excessive saliva with frequent spitting. This is accompanied by a bad taste in the mouth. The lips may be dry, parched, cracked along with constant licking.
Silicea is best suited for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis when crusts at the corners of the mouth. The crusts are usually hard and brownish-coloured in cases needing it. Sometimes corners of the mouth are ulcerated with it. These ulcers may be painful. Itching is also present in these ulcers. Its use is also suggested where pus has formed in the affected area at the angles of the mouth.
Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where dryness of lips is present bryonia is drug of choice. The lips are also swollen and cracked or covered with crusts. Sometimes bleeding appears from cracks. A burning sensation may appear on the lips when touched.
Rhustox is best suited for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where there are crusty eruptions at the mouth corners. Itching and burning are present, along with blisters and ulcers. The lips may be parched and can be covered with reddish-brown crusts.
Sulphur is prescribed for Angular Chelitis / Exfoliative Chelitis where there is itching present at the angles of the mouth. These angles are ulcerated, and there is also pain in the oral commissures (mouth corners) in angular cheilitis.
Hepar Sulphur is where eruption attended with heated sensation in the corners of the mouth. Sometimes there are ulcers at mouth corners. Itching around my mouth is also felt. Cracks in the lower lip may be present. It is also important medicine for healing these cases when pus has formed in the lesions.
Acid nitricum is for rawness, ulcers, or scabs formation at mouth angles. It is attended with dry lips in most cases. The lips may also have blisters or ulcers attended with swelling and itching. Cracking and peeling off skin from lips mainly the lower lip is mostly present. Stitching pain from splinters may be there in the lips.
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