Licking lips repeatedly

Introduction The symptoms of skin behavior disorder are repeated lips, causing flushing of the lips, and even erosion and exudation. Cubaneaus behavior disorders are diseases caused by abnormal mental states and are a neurosis of the skin. Patients often use methods that damage their skin to achieve a sense of pleasure. This kind of bad behavior is repeated and becomes an intractable habit that is difficult to control. More common in teenagers and children. Patients should strengthen their ideological work, persuade education, encourage them to participate in group activities, and divert attention. Can be combined with the corresponding psychotherapy.

Cause

(1) Causes of the disease

1. Under the influence of mis-education or adverse environment, it causes personality disorder and causes neurological disorders.

2. Genetic quality can cause this disease.

3. The lack of trace elements such as zinc and copper in the body can cause the disease.

(two) pathogenesis

Accepting the influence of wrong education or adverse environment, genetic quality, lack of zinc in the body, trace elements in copper and other factors cause neurological disorders. Forming bad behavior, after repeated repetition, becomes an intractable habit that is difficult to control.

an examination

1. Sucking your fingers, after a long time, your fingers are swollen, biting your nails, causing nail defects or periungual inflammation.

2. Repeatedly rubbing lips, causing flushing of lips, and even erosion and exudation. Eczema-like changes. Swelling, hypertrophy, and even erosion, exudation, etc.

3. Repeatedly colliding with the head, causing head trauma.

4. Tight hands, causing finger edema, ecchymosis or underarm bleeding.

5. Tightening the waist or other parts, causing tissue atrophy or excessive thickening of the stratum corneum, forming a scorpion-like appearance.

Differential diagnosis

A few atypical cases need to be identified with the following diseases:

(1) Perioral dermatitis: described by Frumess et al. in 1957. It is currently believed that long-term use of fluorocorticosteroids (such as emollients, dexamethasone) and fluoride toothpaste is the most common cause, occurring in 20-35 years old. Among the females, the part of the invasion is mainly the "mask area", that is, the mouth, the ankle and the nose, but there is a narrow skin around the lips that is not invaded, the upper and lower lips are never involved, and the skin lesions are papules, herpes, pustules, Red spots, scales, etc., symmetrically distributed around the mouth, may have mild itching or burning sensation, skin lesions can be aggravated after sun exposure, drinking, hot food, cold stimulation, stop using fluoride corticosteroids and fluoride toothpaste, After the topical antibiotic preparation, the symptoms disappeared.

(2) Coloring perioral erythema: This disease was first described by Brocq in 1923. It is common in women with seborrhea and rosacea tendency. It may be related to cosmetics. The clinical features are erythema and diffuse brown in the perioral area. Or brown-red pigmentation, although the lesion is most obvious in the mouth, but it can also extend beyond the ankle and along the nasolabial fold. There is a narrow normal skin band between the lesion and the red part of the lip. Poor, difficult to cure.

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