red tingling swollen lips

I would also be very interested to fin out if anyone has discovered any further information about these symptoms. I have had the same symptoms over and over again for maybe 6 months. every few weeks my lips become very dry around the edges, swollen, itchy and feels like they are burning. I went to my GP but he was not sure what it could be.

I get this every few weeks and last about a week. Very frustrating.

I am so glad to find these posts and learn I am not crazy! I have been dealing with this for a year now! It comes and goes with my lips. Also, my eyelids and extreme itching and watering of eyes!  I've been to opthamologist who diagnosed "blepharitis" and presecribed steroid drop for a few weeks along with "patanol" (expensive allergy eye drop). That certainly helped but I couldn't wear contacts for 3 weeks.  And, now it's back. everyday, itching, redness. So, I just keep using the allergy drops which provide some relief. The only relief for my lips is Aquaphor cream (like vaseline but has healing agent). Spicy/salty and wine certainly make it worse. I've been to two dermotogist and my regular GP and they don't know....except one doctor suggested that I might be drooling at night and it's causins a reaction (since I apparently have an allergy to my own tear protein with the blepharitis, I may be allergic to my saliva proteins as well. ?? when the corners get white crusty, it's because a fungus can form.  There is one cream that helps and it's a perscription with antifungal and steriod in it.  You can try over the counter antifungal creams and see if that helps. Meanwhile, I just keep trying things becuase it's so bizzare. Quality of life is decreasing with managing this but I'm just thankful I don't have oral cancer.  If anyone finds any other answers, please post!  Ps. I take GREAT vitamins so not sure it's that...except becuase I am menopausal (recently), my vitamin does not include iron so I will supplement with some and see if it helps.  I've often wondered if this is a hormonal thing as well!

Thank you for posting this info! I have been dealing w/ the itching/burning/tingly lips as well as the clusters of tiny white bumps (almost like hives) when the lips are stretched over my teeth. Not chapped, (I'm plenty hydrated), not Herpes (my husband and i were virgins and have never slept w/ anyone else or performed mouth-to-mouth CPR or anything that could give us herpes). Could be hormonal as I just started on birth control this year and it started up this year. Wondered if a slight food allergy has developed to something I constantly eat (milk protein is the first thing I'm suspicious of) and maybe that is the cause of the flare-ups. Son has IgE food allergies and it can run in families, and can have onset in adulthood.  Also wondering about yeast overgrowth (candida, related to the body's inability to absorb sugar and therefore the formation of fungus/yeast all over, same fungus as athlete's foot and yeast infections but all over skin). My daughter had that and it is very hard to diagnose but when we took her off ALL sugar (i mean all sucrose, all lactose, glucose, fructose) it went away. Maybe this is something like that? Any thoughts? Or anyone on this thread that got answers after-the-fact?