How's the swollen lip? - Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics Network

How's the swollen lip?

Abstract: Lips have always been the part that can best reflect people's physical condition. Most people know that you can know your health by looking at the color and characteristics of your lips. If the shape of lips suddenly changes, such as redness and inflammation, it may be inflammation or eating something bad, which will have a certain impact on normal life. Let's look at swollen lips.

First, the cause of lip edema

1, allergic reaction

When an allergic reaction occurs after eating a certain food or drink, the lips will swell. In addition, some women who love beauty like to put lipstick on their lips or inject collagen. If the body is allergic to these substances, it will also cause swelling of the lips.

2. Keratoacanthoma

If the lips are swollen and accompanied by a hard brown lump or ulcer on the upper edge of the lips, it may be keratoacanthoma. This is a rapidly developing skin lesion, which is usually related to sun damage. It will suddenly appear and disappear by itself, leaving only a small dent, but it may also belong to precancerous lesions such as actinic cheilitis.

3. Recurrent lip swelling facial paralysis syndrome

If the lips are swollen for a long time, accompanied by different degrees of facial swelling, facial paralysis, migraine, drooling, sweating, tears, you need to be alert to recurrent lip swelling facial paralysis syndrome. At the initial stage of the disease, it can last for several minutes to three weeks at a time. However, after repeated attacks, it can become chronic or even permanent.

4, chronic cheilitis

The main manifestation of chronic cheilitis is that it will recur, usually in winter and spring dry season. Severe cases may have this problem all year round. The lips are swollen, dark red and dry, and there is no desquamation and chapping, local itching and dryness, and purulent secretion is serious, which will affect the function of the lips.

5, actinic cheilitis

If the lower lip is swollen, accompanied by red or white hard spots or ulcer bleeding, as well as dry peeling, chapped, vasodilation and other symptoms, we should be alert to the possibility of actinic cheilitis. This is an inflammatory reaction of lips caused by long-term sun exposure, which is common in people over 50 years old. In addition, it should be noted that actinic cheilitis is a precancerous lesion, which may indicate that there is skin cancer in the lower lip.

6. Anaphylactic shock

If the lips suddenly swell with dysphagia, dyspnea and other symptoms, it may be anaphylactic shock. In this case, you must seek medical attention in time, otherwise your life may be in danger.

Second, what should I do if my lips are swollen?

1, hospital treatment

Lip swelling is a common accident in daily life. There are many reasons for lip swelling, including excessive internal heat, angioneurotic edema, food allergy and other factors. Therefore, in order to ensure the effect of lip swelling, we must first find out the specific causes of lip swelling, and then carry out targeted treatment. Due to physical constitution, etiology and other factors, different lip swelling usually shows different characteristics, so we should pay attention to differential diagnosis. In order to ensure the therapeutic effect and avoid the possibility of missed diagnosis caused by various factors, a comprehensive analysis should be made on lip swelling.

2, light diet

In the dry season, I like to eat spicy and fried food, because I don't pay attention to my diet, which is one of the important factors leading to endocrine disorders and excessive internal heat, which will make my lips edema. In order to quickly eliminate lip edema, I must develop a light diet when my lips are swollen, so as to quickly eliminate lip edema.

Step 3 drink plenty of water

Drinking more water can effectively eliminate lip edema. Many people have swollen lips because their bodies are too dry, which leads to swollen lips. Therefore, we should try to develop the habit of drinking more water, keep the body hydrated and quickly eliminate the problem of lip edema.

Step 4 use cactus to reduce swelling

Cactus has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and reducing swelling. Therefore, fresh cactus is decapitated, mashed into paste, evenly applied to swollen lips, washed with warm water after 20 minutes, and used once a day for a week, so that edema on the lips can be eliminated.

5, cold and hot external application

If the bruised lips are swollen, cold compress can be used to promote blood circulation in the early stage, and hot compress can be used to compress the lips after the lips are swollen for 24 hours, which can quickly and effectively eliminate lip edema.

6. Clear and cool sugar water

Materials: Glehnia littoralis 15g, Polygonatum odoratum 15g, lotus seed 20g, lily 15g, yam 15g, coix seed 1600ml, yuba 50g, Lycium barbarum 10g, rock sugar 30g, etc.

Practice: Wash Radix Glehniae, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Lotus Seed, Lily, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Coicis Semen, Yuba and Fructus Lycii, and drain. The yuba is cut into 4 cm long sections. Add water to the pot, bring to a boil, add the cleaned materials, and cook with high fire for 15 minutes, and then cook with low fire. After 30 minutes, add rock sugar and continue to cook for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and fire, effectively eliminating internal fire in the body and effectively solving lip edema caused by excessive fire.

Third, matters needing attention

1, never tear the skin.

If your lips are swollen, you won't dare to tear the skin. Generally, chapped and swollen lips will peel off. Before the skin falls off, society is connected with our lips. At this time, some bold people who are not afraid of pain will try their best to tear off this layer of skin, which will eventually lead to bleeding, pain, redness and swelling, and the pain is even worse when speaking. In fact, the correct way is to clean the dead skin with a cotton swab first, and then apply aloe products.

2. Avoid wearing lipstick every day.

If you wear lipstick for a long time, it will dry the skin of your lips. You can wear no makeup for two days a week and let your lips have a good rest. At this time, you can apply some lip balm to moisturize your lips.

3. Avoid using inferior lipstick.

Some people are greedy and cheap, and buying some lipstick with poor quality will do great harm to our lips. If we use unqualified lipstick, there will be a phototoxic reaction, that is to say, when our lips come into contact with lipstick, they will absorb this harmful photosensitive substance, and then after a series of reactions, the cells of our lips will be damaged to a certain extent, which will lead to lip cancer.