TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Many factors makes our dry and cracked lips. Well it can be caused by various things and the most often cause is due to dehydration. Besides, there are some trivial things that can cause dry lips. What are they?
Reporting from Dokter Sehat, the following habits can cause your lips to dry, even cracked.
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1. Like to lick lips
Often licking your lips does not make your lips wet and moist. Even, lips will be drier. Saliva will not be able to make our lips become moister considering its main function is to help food easier to digest.
2. Excessive or deficiency of vitamin
Health experts say if we lack the supply of vitamin B2, then the lips will easily have cracking, otherwise if we have vitamin A deficiency, the lips will also have the same problem.
3. Affected by fungal infections
Health expert Shawn Allen said that mushrooms could arise due to saliva around the lips. The amount of this mushroom content can trigger infection and make the lips easily cracked. For this reason, it's a good idea for us to consume much water instead of moistening your lips with saliva.
4. Affected by allergies
In some cases, cracked lips can actually occur due to the appearance of allergies, especially those related to beauty products to certain foods.
Those are four things that cause dry lips besides lack of body fluids or dehydration. Even though it looks trivial, cracked lips can make a very uncomfortable feeling. Therefore, always keep the health and moisture of your lips so you won't have dry lips. (*)
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