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Periorbital puffiness, also known as puffy eyes, or swelling around the eyes, is the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. It is almost exclusively caused by fluid buildup around the eyes, or periorbital edema. Minor puffiness usually detectable below the eyes only is often called eye bags.
Photographic Comparison of: 1) a canker sore – inside the mouth, 2) herpes labialis, 3) angular cheilitis and 4) chapped lips. [4]Chapped lips (also known as cheilitis simplex [5] or common cheilitis) [6] is characterized by the cracking, fissuring, and peeling of the skin of the lips, and is one of the most common types of cheilitis.
The periorbital tissues are most noticeably swollen immediately after waking, perhaps as a result of the gravitational redistribution of fluid in the horizontal position. Common appearances of cutaneous edema are observed with mosquito bites, spider bites, bee stings ( wheal and flare ), and skin contact with certain plants such as poison ivy ...
Back in August 2019, she shared that her lips got swollen after a crazy reaction due to altitude sickness."Very upset and saddened that my own birth state, Utah, has chosen to poison me with ...
When lip filler migrates, it goes from the inner “red lip” to the outer part of the lip, or the “white lip,” says double board-certified facial plastic surgeon Michael Bassiri-Tehrani, MD.
Angular cheilitis is thought to be a multifactorial disorder of infectious origin, [10] with many local and systemic predisposing factors. [11] The sores in angular cheilitis are often infected with fungi (yeasts), bacteria, or a combination thereof; [8] this may represent a secondary, opportunistic infection by these pathogens.
AC almost always affects the lower lip and only rarely the upper lip, probably because the lower lip is more exposed to the sun. [7] In the unusual cases reported where it affects the upper lip, this may be due to upper lip prominence. [7] The commissures (corners of the mouth) are not usually involved. [2] [6]
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