Your first episode of Angular Cheilitis was NOT the happiest moment of your life. Besides the constant stares you got from other people, the symptoms were unbearable. It’s likely you felt: “Painful Skin Splits around your Mouth and Lips ” “Lip Sores with Oozing Blood” “Whitish Coating on your Tongue” “Ugly Bumps around your Mouth” [...]

Sometimes, the cracking and redness that appears at the corner of the mouth is simply a cold sore. These cold sores are very common, and they usually appear and vanish without ever really causing any harm. Using certain types of lip balm can even make them go away more quickly. However, if you’ve ever had [...]

Angular cheilitis is a bacterial or fungal infection that starts out looking like a normal cold sore. However, within several days, the redness and cracking will start to spread across the mouth and lips, and soon, it will stretch across your entire mouth. These sores will start to hurt, especially when you try to eat [...]

Angular cheilitis is a fungal or bacterial infection that causes painful sores to appear at the corners of the mouth and then slowly spread across the mouth and lips. They resemble cold sores at first, but these sores are much more painful and last much longer. They are caused by saliva accumulating at the corners [...]

If you don’t suffer from angular cheilitis, you probably have no idea what it is. However, once you’ve seen an image of the sores it causes, you will never forget what it looks like. Basically, angular cheilitis, sometimes called cheilosis, is a type of rheumatoid condition that affects the mouth and lips. It causes very [...]