Thank you all for your recommendations. I did take him back to urgent care and it turned out to be Impetigo! We have a prescription now for his lips. Poor boy is sad he is missing all the fun things this week at school.

Thank you again all.

Check your toothpaste for sulfates. Many have them and they’re extremely drying to some people’s lips. Nothing worked for me until I switched, now I use Sensodyne and almost immediately severely chapped lips were healed!

Anonymous wrote:If they are cracked already, Dr Dan’s cortibalm. It’s what my dermatologist recommended. And then vasoline or aquaphor. Burt’s bees is terrible, most flavored chapsticks actually make lips worse!

+1 there's something about Burt's Bees that always made my lips worse. Aquaphor makes a lip balm that's really good and not messy.