During the last four months I've been dealing with a lip issue that I've never had before. It started out with what I thought was a fever blister but I don't know now if it was judging by what has transpired over the last number of months.
Fever blisters normally arrive after I've eaten sugary foods and have gone off track with my diet because sugar suppresses the immune system. These types of foods certainly give my immune system a fight, enough for a fever blister to appear. So after numerous fever blisters within a short period of time, I decided to take conventional action and buy some topical fever blister treatment.
After applying this topical treatment to my lips they started to get worse. The top of my lip wound up getting very dry and no lip balm, oil or anything was helping. My lips were peeling and were so dry that I thought I had a bad case of chapped lips. I started taking ASEA on March 1st of this year and so I sprayed that on my lips. After spraying the ASEA on, I noticed my lips felt as though liquid was oozing out. I don't know if the ASEA was drawing out the infection or not but something was going on and it was very strange.
I continued to spray ASEA on my lips daily, sometimes twice a day without any noticeable improvement. Occasionally I'd put the topical treatment I bought only to be sorry later because it seemed to make things worse. I finally threw the lip treatment away along with all my lipsticks I had been using.
I started using Dr. Bronner's ginger lip balm and that seemed to help take away the dryness. But after the dryness left I woke up one morning with swollen lips! Soon after I developed a red ring around my lips which extended above my top lip. So when I put lipstick on to camouflage the swelling, I looked like a clown! Needless to say the lipstick came off!
Some time after, I noticed a crusty sore in the corner of my mouth which again I thought was a fever blister. It began to be difficult to open my mouth to eat. I started applying the Dr. Bronner's ginger lip balm again since it seemed to help once but not this time.
Some time later, I woke up again with swollen lips which then turned into a red ring around my lips and what looked like very chapped and cracked lips. The skin on my lips was just peeling off and they hurt.
My husband and I went away for a long weekend to our favorite place, Dayton, PA last week where we visited Elma, an Amish women who took over her husband's nutritional store. My husband and I decided to go there first before we arrived in Dayton to see if there was anything that might help my lip problem. I had looked up my symptoms before we had left for Dayton and found a few things that might help. We bought some B-Complex, Tea Tree oil and Lysine. Elma showed me a jar of Calm Cream but I said I didn't think that would help. I was thinking it would be better to take something internally to get rid of this annoying condition since topically nothing helped.
I took the Lysine and B-Complex and applied the tea tree oil when we arrived at my cousin's. I didn't notice any changes. Later we went to Mitzie's cafe where we could get WiFi and I did another internet search. I asked my friend, Tammy, a nurse who stopped in at Mitzie's, if she had ever heard of Angular Cheilitis which she hadn't. I was at a loss. The symptoms I had were a match for Angular Cheilitis but I found no solutions on the internet.
Later that night as I was getting ready for bed, I looked in my cousin's medicine cabinet to see if she had something, anything that might help because I wondered how I was going to sleep. My lips were making me very uncomfortable. Lo and behold! I couldn't believe what my eyes saw! I saw that same jar of Calm Cream that Elma has handed me in the store earlier that day. I thought, what harm could it do? So I rubbed some of the cream on my lips and went to bed.
The next morning my lips looked significantly better however, I wasn't sure if it was the cream or if the supplements had started to work. We went out that day and my lips got worse as the day went on. They were again beginning to look very dry, chapped, cracked and a bit swollen. I still had the crusty sore in the corner and another was forming on the other side. Some time in the afternoon it dawned on me that the Calm Cream could have been the reason my lips seemed much better in the morning. We went back to my cousin's and I put some more of the cream on my lips. Within about a half hour, give or take, there was a definite and noticable improvement. I realized that Calm Cream has calendula as one of the ingredients, same ingredient in natural diaper rash ointments.
My husband and I went back to visit Elma to buy some of that wonderful Calm Cream. I told Elma what had happened and that she was right to hand it to me. She was kind and gracious and said she really didn't know if it would help, she was just guessing. I've been using the crea all week long and my lips are doing just fine now. The sore in the corner is now completely gone and no more dry, cracked, chapped and swollen lips! I will continue to put this on my lips daily to keep angular cheilitis at bay, at least until I feel confident it won't return. But I'll be sure to buy more Calm Cream before I run out because I wouldn't want to be without it!
I still must find out more about the effect that ASEA had. I'm interested to know whether or not if was actually helping bring forth the infection and drawing it out.
Where can you get Calm Cream? From Elma at Window's Road Nutrition, 33 Window's Road., Smicksburg, PA 16256. Just print or save and print the order form to the left and mail it with a check for $23.29 ($18.20 for the 4oz jar of Calm Cream, plus 6% sales tax and $4.00 for shipping*) to Window's Road Nutrition.
I'm so grateful for our Amish friends!
~ Lisa
*Shipping is $4.00 no matter what size your order is except for heavy liquids which they will bill you for the extra cost.
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