Cracked corners of the mouth (angular cheilitis) can be painful and embarrassing. Home remedies can often help clear up the condition.
If your lips are dry it's hard to avoid licking them. But if you lick your lips, you'll make them worse. Why not moisten your lips naturally?
One reader found that cracks in the corners of the mouth disappeared when treated with athletes' foot cream. Others find that changing toothpaste makes a difference.
A reader dabs hydrogen peroxide on the corners of the mouth every day after brushing the teeth to make angular cheilitis disappear.
Certain types of compounds in toothpaste or mouthwash could trigger angular cheilitis and make your mouth sore.
Although angular cheilitis is more often associated with inadequate vitamin B or iron, one reader found that vitamin D helped her sore mouth.
Doctors call cracks at the corner of the mouth angular cheilitis, perleche or cheilosis. Getting rid of these nasty fissures can be challenging. Castor oil?
Natural antifungal herbal oils in original amber Listerine cleared up angular cheilitis when steroid cream could not.