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What Do Black Marks On The Lips Indicate?
Question: my husband has some black marks on his lips, he is not into smoking but lips seems to be very black from corner and center and also only lower lip has this issue, pictures attached for reference
Brief Answer:
Answer few questions
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for being at healthcaremagic
I have reviewed the attached photographs and need to ask you few questions:
Is he having itching on the lips?
Is he vegetarian?
Does he have any other ailments or taking any medicines?
Does he have any irritation or rash prior to the appearance of pigmentation?
Is he having too much sun exposure?
Has he used any medicine for pigmentation in the past?
Kindly revert with the answers.
Regards
Dr Asmeet
Answer few questions
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for being at healthcaremagic
I have reviewed the attached photographs and need to ask you few questions:
Is he having itching on the lips?
Is he vegetarian?
Does he have any other ailments or taking any medicines?
Does he have any irritation or rash prior to the appearance of pigmentation?
Is he having too much sun exposure?
Has he used any medicine for pigmentation in the past?
Kindly revert with the answers.
Regards
Dr Asmeet
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. REMY KOSHY
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for being at healthcaremagic
I have reviewed the attached photographs and need to ask you few questions:
Is he having itching on the lips?
There is no itching
Is he vegetarian?
No he eat both
Does he have any other ailments or taking any medicines?
Yes a homeopathy doctor suggested bio oil it's show some improvement initially
Does he have any irritation or rash prior to the appearance of pigmentation?
No nothing
Is he having too much sun exposure?
No he don't have sun exposure but due to low vitamin d almost a year back he took many vitamin d tablet (60000) quite frequent. So we doubt that could be over dose
Has he used any medicine for pigmentation in the past?
Bio oil and lib balm
Brief Answer:
Use depigmenting cream and moisturising cream
Detailed Answer:
If I was your treating doctor I would recommend you to apply depigmenting cream containing kojic acid on the dark patches twice daily along with a good moisturising cream on the entire lips twice daily.
Various brands containing kojic acid are available like kojivit cream or clearz plus cream or kojiglo cream.
Either of the one can be used on the dark patches twice daily.
Along with this he needs to apply a good moisturising cream like hydra rich lip cream or nmf e lip care balm on the entire lips 2-3 times in a day.
Use depigmenting cream and moisturising cream
Detailed Answer:
If I was your treating doctor I would recommend you to apply depigmenting cream containing kojic acid on the dark patches twice daily along with a good moisturising cream on the entire lips twice daily.
Various brands containing kojic acid are available like kojivit cream or clearz plus cream or kojiglo cream.
Either of the one can be used on the dark patches twice daily.
Along with this he needs to apply a good moisturising cream like hydra rich lip cream or nmf e lip care balm on the entire lips 2-3 times in a day.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Veerisetty Shyamkumar
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