How Are Angular Cheilitis And Angular Cheilosis Related?

Angular Cheilitis and Angular Cheilosis are actually the same thing, and to make matters even more confusing, the medical community also refers to it as Chelitis, Angular Chelitis, Angular Stomatitis, cheilosis, cheilitis, and perleche.

Ordinary people, which is by far most of the population, just call it cracked mouth corners or split mouth corners. That is because the repulsive symptoms show up on the mouth corner angles as deep, red, swollen crusty-looking cracks. They look precisely like extremely infected paper cuts.

The splits in the mouth corners are very difficult to get rid of once they get established because they are caused by an over growth of Candida fungus. The fungus thrives in a constant moisture environment, and when the crust mouth corner sores are present, the natural tendency is to unconsciously continually lick the crusted-over cracks and thus supply continuous moisture to the irritated areas.