Chronic splitting of skin inside my nostrils

[ToughKitty]

For some reason the skin on the inside of both my nostrils continually splits, heals, and splits again.  I do have allergies frequently which may contribute to the irritation, but I don't understand why this keeps happening to me.  The area affected is the skin inside my nostrils that is bottom most towards my palate.  It never occurs on my septum or on the outer area of my nose.  Also these two splits seem to always occur in the same spots.  They split, hurt, scab over, and heal.  The natural salinity of my nasal secretions adds to the discomfort.  I do have a tendency to pick at the scabs because they itch and annoy me because they look and feel like boogers.  I can actually see where the skin is sepparated when I look in the mirror.  This problem has been going on for many years and I was wondering if there is anything to be done about it.  It drives me nuts!  I hope someone out there can help.

[compiler]

Sailing water should not be used for long time, more than two weeks. It is helpful to treat the infection, sinusitis but it may dry out nasal membranes because of the salt. Many doctors do not realize it but still recommend the sailing water to treat the dry nasal. It is not always to relieve the dry nasal but may cause the nose bleeding worse.  

[Vetcdv]

I have this same problem for years but I found that when I use triamcinnolone acetonide dental paste it clears it up in a couple days. It stings a little bit but well worth it. You'll need a script for it though.

[girlpirate]

I have found when I have a flare up of splits in my nostril..I do the ...nettie pot but with a "turkey baster"HA I KNOW BUT IT WORKS ..like the bulb irrigation in surgery (use an ear syringe if you want) but ..put about a good teaspoon of un iodized sea salt in cup of warm water...disssolve and ..irrigate rinse your nostrils. Heals them right up and during allergy season...a daily rinse...keeps the splits from coming back. You might even try dunking your nose (leaving your mouth to breath on outside of a cup)..in a mile salt or a capful (1/2 oz ) of chlorox to a cup of warm water . (IS CHLORINE IONS..same as in the ocean water, that medical has found "heals eczema " etc. Google it.. 1/3 cup to bath water doesn't cure it..but heals enough to make tolerable. They think the bacteria on skin keeps the lesions exacerbated.  

[peridots]

Thank you for sharing about your experience with stevia.  I started having problems with the entrance to my ears becoming crusty, flaking and scabbing. My nose doesn't get crusty, just my ears. I was sweetening coffee and tea using stevia, the equivalent of 2-3 packets a day for about a year. I stopped the stevia a week ago and am noticing healing and improvement. I think that I developed an allergy to it. Like you said it also might be that using stevia was messing with my blood sugar. I didn't feel right on stevia and it also caused stomach irritation after several months of use. Allergy or toxicity, who knows..I'm just glad that the conditions are improving now that I no longer use it to sweeten things. I decided to try regular sugar in small amounts or maple syrup if I'm really craving sweetener.

[jenncat8]

Thank you for posting an update!  Very interesting!!

[slappman]

Wow, I just ran across this page with so many people having this issue with the dry, cracked, splitting skin inside the nostrils. Holy cow, didn't realize I was not the only one dealing with this. Mine started about a year ago after having gone on a low sugar kick where I began using stevia to sweeten everything I was consuming. Stevia in tea, in coffee, in baked goods, in pretty much everything that a sweetener would be used for. Life was pretty good for a while. I was eating tasty stuff and I felt good. I don’t know how to articulate this, but I could feel my body reacting to the stevia by releasing glucose and it was like an odd sensation of my body being starved but not being hungry. My body fat dropped a bit and overall it was good. I attributed that starved sensation to my absolute deletion of real sugar from the diet.
Well, all goodness ended about 6 month in as I think my body developed either an allergic reaction to stevia or something about having your blood sugars messed with in this way caused a problem. I began noticing the dry cracked skin inside my nostrils and immediately stopped everything again because I am very paranoid about diet. No more stevia! It cleared up immediately. BUT… now I get little flare ups depending on my diet. If I have too much bread or sweetened anything it may happen. If I take creatine supplements for a while it may happen. If I take amino acid supplements such as L-Arginine consistently it may happen. Very hard to pinpoint the exact root cause without basically making yourself a lab rat and living a dull life of exclusion. So hard.
I am typically very physically active as well and notice when I am consistently training and burning tons of calories, I have very little problems at all if any with this issue or quite frankly any issue one could complain about. My current Achilles heel though is Bread, because I can’t stay away from it. And I have noticed this dry cracked split skin in my nostrils has come back since I have taken a break from training a lot. I am still active but spend way too much time sitting in a chair in front of a computer. I may have to bite the bullet and once again eliminate this source of carbohydrates from my diet as well.
Just thought I would share… I am pretty convinced that my body’s inability to deal with sugar in the quantities that our modern processed foods feed it to us has created this problem. Wish I knew then what I know now. Would not have drank so much soda or eaten so many donuts, cakes, pies, etc. Doh!