Talk:Angular cheilitis

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[edit] Pictures

Wow this page needs pictures

I don't think it does yet, it describes the condition well and is quite small, so a picture isn't so urgent. Sqityl 08:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Moved image from here to the article. Barrylb 15:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chapped Lips?

Is this condition the same as chapped lips? Most other sites seem to treat them differently. Malamockq 19:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The less severe cases I described (and others edited) are meant to be chapped lips (because the page originally re-directed here), but if there is another article then I vote this information should be transferred there then deleted off this article. Bendragonbrown47 19:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Indeed chapped lips is general drying and possibly cracking across the lips, but generally not in the corners as with this condition. it is generally due to air conditioning and/or dry cold outside air in winter (but corners of lips may be involved if excessive lip-licking occurs and promotes a fungal infection vs just dried lips).David Ruben Talk 20:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chapped lips no longer redirects here

FYI... Since the conditions are related but not the same, the chapped lips article now describes its own condition rather than redirecting here. --Ds13 05:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] B-12 Deficiency

The article mentions that vitamin B-12 deficiency may cause this condition. However, all the listings of B-12 deficiency symptoms I have found on the web do not mention this condition. I would be interested in a citation for this claim. 152.5.254.24 14:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

It does occur, although personal experience is not often identified and iron deficiency tends to be more commonly picked up that B12 in such screening of affected patients. I agree though, not much evidence found to cite from on searching PubMed. I've added a citation for the relative rates of deficiencies, but as for the absolute rates (i.e. incidence of having a deficincy if present with angular cheilitis) I could find no direct source. However PMID 105102 gives for a related condition of causing sore mouths that "330 patients with recurrent aphthae was screened for deficiencies of iron, folate and vitamin B12. In 47 patients (14.2%) such deficiencies were found" David Ruben Talk 03:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
To further elucidate, B12 deficiency often leads to a type of anemia. Anemia is basically an insufficiency of the red blood cells to carry oxygen in the body, for whatever reason. It is not just caused by iron insufficiency. So the user who said that B12 insufficiency is a possible cause of angular cheilitis is correct. He or she is just going back further down the line of causes. - 74.138.205.247 (talk) 12:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)