We are usually familiar with lip cracking in winter. However, many people have said that their lips are cracking even in hot weather.

Over the last few days, many people are writing about the experience of cracked lips on Facebook. Many people carry a lip left in their pocket, which is used in winter to protect them from the pain of chapped lips.

Professor Mostafa Zaman, a physician at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka, says that winter is no longer what it used to be due to climate change and at the same time changes in the characteristics of the seasons are having an effect on the human body.

He said that now it is getting hot again during Ramadan, due to which many people are suffering from dehydration. Someone’s lips are cracking because of the heat, again someone is having constipation. Because the skin is getting dry fast.

He said that the watery part of the skin is rapidly declining due to dryness. The lips are more affected, because the skin on the outside of the lips is very thin.

He said that for those who observe fasting, it may be more. Because from Seheri to Iftar, one has to abstain from food and drink for about 14 hours in this heat.

But he says it’s not a big deal. The normal effect of temperature. It is possible to avoid it if you are aware.

The lips are more cracked than the skin of the body, because it is basically a very thin layer on the surface of the skin. Therefore, when the amount of moisture in the air is high in winter, the water content of the body decreases and then this layer of skin is quickly damaged i.e. it dries out.

Mostafa Zaman said that this layer of lips is called epidermis or outer layer. As it is thin, it is affected quickly by temperature fluctuations or humid air, ”said Professor Mostafa Zaman.

He said that when the lips are a little dry again, many people try to wet them with the tongue. But later when the saliva dries, the lips become drier and may crack.

He said that many medicines used to treat high blood pressure, heart, kidney or cancer also remove water from the body and that is why the skin of many people especially the lips are affected. In many cases, the position of the lips is just below the nose, so the effect of the hot air that comes out with the breath, the lips become dry.

Lip cleft solution

Doctors offer some tips to prevent chapped lips. These are:

Drink plenty of water

Lip care

Avoid intense sunlight and dust

খাওয়া Eat balanced and nutritious food

করা Use Vaseline if necessary (but doctors say to be careful not to use anything mixed with chemicals)

MN / 06 May