Oral candidiasis is opportunistic infection by Candida constituting oral microbiota, and is often associated with cancer chemotherapy, steroid therapy and/or long-term treatments with antibiotics. Main symptom of candidiasis is pain of oral mucosa, burning sensation and taste disorder, and white plaques on the mucosa and atrophic change of the mucosa are common clinical symptom. However, candidal chelitis is relatively rare.
We describe a 74-year old woman (Case 1), a 54-year old woman(Case 2), and a 71-year old woman (Case 3) with swelling and redness of the lips.
After treatment of antifungal drug, swelling, redness and pain was disappeared and now is good without a recurrence in progress.