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Perleche And Angular Cheilitis Treatment
By MengGee Ong
Angular cheilitis (angular chelitis is a common misspelling), the subject of this article, is a condition experienced by many people worldwide.
Usually linked with a Candida or Staphylococcal infection, a patient of angular cheilitis is also prone to oral candidiasis (thrush), indicated by a white lining on the tongue. A lingering inflammatory condition of the corners of the mouth, angular cheilitis has other names that include cheilosis or perleche or angular stomatitis.
Those who are afflicted by angular cheilitis often endure several attacks yearly, each continuing for days to weeks or even months.
Diabetics, people with chronic pooling of saliva, low immunity and have undergone radiation therapy as well as those with nutritional deficiencies in Vitamin B12, folate and iron appear to be affected by this problem.
When it comes to degree of risk, age appears to be a determinant although no one is invulnerable to angular cheilitis.
Angular cheilitis develops frequently to elderly people who have to rely on dentures because of loss of teeth. Unfortunately, dentures that do not strongly carry the facial musculature frequently cause hanging of the corners of the mouth ultimately leading to angular cheilitis.
Another group is teenagers and young children who encounter a less severe type of angular cheilitis known as chapped lips. Chapped lips appear to be mainly triggered by cold temperatures such as during winter.
Usual signs of an angular cheilitis attack include
cracking, redness of the corners of the mouth, development of ulcers, tissue softness and drainage of pus.
While angular cheilitis is not a life critical condition, many sufferers of this humiliating disorder will do just about anything to ease the pain and cure the infection forever.
Just like what he / she would do for many medical disorders, the normal angular cheilitis patient will turn to their doctor for help.
The doctor may prescribe a combination of topical antifungal with a medical steroid such as hydrocortisone for serious cases of angular cheilitis. For less intense conditions, the prescribed treatment may just be medical antifungals such econazole, clotrimazole or nystatin or even oral antifungals.
Unfortunately, these treatments have not been very effective.
Almost all angular cheilitis sufferers show a tendency to give up on alleviating their condition; they simply endure the pain during the attacks and wait for the symptoms to go away.
The painful bouts unfortunately do not vanish for many angular cheilitis patients who have to live with legions at their mouth on an almost persistent basis.
Fortunately, searching online can reveal treatment options.
For instance, if you use (non-metal) dentures, you then need to ensure that the dentures do not act as accumulators of angular cheilitis infection. You can avoid this by soaking dentures overnight in a solution made up of 10 parts water to 1 part household bleach.
For metal dentures, you can use sodium benzoate or chlorhexidine mouth rinse to minimise the risk of discoloring.
There is also a method that utilises conventional household items that is surprisingly inexpensive for an angular cheilitis patient. This riskfree, simple and painfree procedure restricts and kills the Candida bacteria by separating this fungal bacteria and producing a habitat they cannot hold out. The author writes on angular stomatitis and other health issues. If you would like to find out more about the symptoms and treatment of perleche, the author recommends that you visit the following blog on Angular Cheilitis.
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