[pct-l] blistered lips

[gschenk1 at roadrunner.com]

---- aslive at charter.net wrote: 
> 
> My lips bluster from the sun whenever I backpack, particularly at 
> altitude and over snow.  I use an SPF lip protection but it still 
> happens.  Maybe this is because I am the first member of my family to 
> rise up out from my coffin during the daytime in 500 years, I don't 
> know.  Anyway, I am wondering what folks use to treat this condition.  I 
> have tried Aloe Vera gel and triple antibiotic ointment, Campho-Phenique 
> and petroleum jelly, nothing seems to help.  A week- and-a-half to two 
> weeks is a long time to stay out of the sun.  Any suggestions?

I like Savex, but not sure anything is a miracle cure. You have to stop the blistering somehow. Zinc oxide?

Gary