Description
MediChoice Lip Balm is a medical-grade, unflavored lip balm designed for both hydration and sun protection. It is especially useful for those with sensitive skin or those who prefer a neutral product without strong scents or tastes
Key Benefits
- Deep Hydration: Formulated to moisturize, nourish, and hydrate the lips.
- Protection: Helps prevent and protect against dry, chapped, or windburned lips.
- Sun Defense: Provides SPF 15 broad-spectrum protection.
- Quality: Made in the USA and remains unflavored for universal use.
Active Ingredients
The formula uses a blend of chemical sunscreen filters to ensure coverage:
- Avobenzone (3%): Provides UVA protection.
- Octinoxate (6.5%): Absorbs UVB rays.
- Octisalate (5.0%): Helps with UVB protection and water resistance.
- Octocrylene (1.5%): Stabilizes the Avobenzone and adds UVB coverage
Dry lips (cheilitis) can be a persistent nuisance, and while weather is often the culprit, several medical conditions can also be the underlying cause.
Common Medical Causes for Dry Lips
- Dehydration: When the body lacks sufficient fluids, it prioritizes vital organs, often leaving the skin and lips dry and parched.
- Vitamin Deficiencies: Shortages in B-complex vitamins (especially B2, B6, and B12), iron, or zinc can lead to cracked, dry lips.
- Actinic Cheilitis: This is a precancerous condition caused by long-term sun exposure, which makes lips feel chronically dry, scaly, or "sandpapery." Using a product like ME MediChoice Lip Balm SPF 15 can help protect against this damage.
- Thyroid Disorders: Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) can decrease sweat and oil gland production, leading to overall skin and lip dryness.
- Autoimmune Diseases: Conditions like Sjögren’s syndrome cause the body to attack its own moisture-producing glands, resulting in a very dry mouth and lips.
- Angular Cheilitis: This is an inflammatory condition that causes painful sores and dryness specifically at the corners of the mouth, often caused by fungal or bacterial infections.
- Stroke: can cause dry lips and a dry mouth (xerostomia) in about 61% of patients, often due to reduced saliva production from nerve damage, dehydration, mouth breathing, or side effects of medications. Facial paralysis and inability to close the mouth can also cause lips to become severely dry, cracked, and irritated.
Medical Supply Group is not an authorized distributor but reseller of Owens & Minor, Inc. products
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