When Baby C was hospitalized and could not eat or drink for almost 3 weeks, her lips became really dry and chapped. It did not help that she was in an air-conditioned room 24 hours a day for 3 weeks… which exacerbated the chapped skin on her lips. The skin became so chapped that it turned hard. I had to use a piece of face cotton, soaked it with some drinking water and dabbed it on her lips. On some days when baby looked really thirsty, I secretly gave her sips of water, which helped the skin on her lips turn soft again…. shhhhh!
Our surgeon also prescribed liquid parrafin to apply on baby’s chapped lips. I must say that the parrafin syrup was pretty effective in moisturizing baby’s lips and to prevent them from chapping. 2 days ago, my lips were dry… so dry that the edge of my lips cracked. I dabbed some parrafin syrup on my lips and the following day, the crack healed. The best thing about parrafin syrup is that it’s really cheap.
The small bottle above which contains about 2-3 tablespoons of parrafin syrup only cost 20 sen! So the next time your kids or you have dry and chapped lips, forget about spending a fortune on lip balm…. get parrafin syrup instead!
Wow! What a bargain! I’ll make sure I get some when relatives come to visit from KL. It’s very dry here in the winter especially and I use loads of petroleum jelly but paraffin syrup sounds better. Also, at the hosp if you have oxygen on you, petroleum jelly is not recommended as a rash/ irritation can happen.
So nice to know this. Thanks for sharing this.