The symptoms of Angular Cheilitis are assumed to be associated with the flu because the symptoms of Cheilitis are similar to flu-like symptoms.
However, this assumption is completely incorrect. The reason we wrongly think that Angular Cheilitis symptoms such as dry cracked lip corners is symptomatic of the flu is because angular cheilitis appears much more frequently during cold snaps, and usually it is during the winter months when we see more cases of the flu.
However, what is really going on is that when our bodies experience a sudden temperature drop, our immune systems are overloaded, leaving our lip and mouth skin flaky and dry. When our lips are dry, we naturally want to lick them in order to sooth them.
The fungal bacteria that is always living on the skin starts to flourish and grow like a wild fire when the saliva from the licking keeps the mouth corners moist.
Before long, the nasty, red, raw mouth corner cracks appear, without proper treatment, the cracks become further infected turning into crusty, bleeding lesions.
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