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Stye in the Eye.......

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novorapidboi26 said:
I have had a stye for a few days now and its really doing my nut in..........

It sitting on my bottom lid of the left eye and feels really big when its not that noticeable to the outside world. Noticed there was a lump under the swelling last night and gave it a squeeze, its safe to say there is infection present....

Anyone got any tips for both relief and healing of this before I am forced to go to the docs for antiBis...........

Cheers..........
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I get styes. A lot. No-one really notices because it comes in the same place on the inside rim of my top eyelid on my right eye. I do the whole cotton bud/baby shampoo thing but it doesn't seem to work for me. Better is a cotton wool pad with very hot water squeezed out and applied as a compress but because its inside that's a bit problematic! Last night I discovered that an unperfumed baby wipe, wiped gently over it, gave me a bit of relief. I've had antibiotic ointment which helped a bit, you're only supposed to use the one I had for 5 days but although it gave me some ease from the discomfort, the stye was still there. Back to the doctor for me. Good luck with it
 
Perhaps ask your pharmacist. It will be lot easier than contacting a doctor at the moment.
 
Izzi said:
I get styes. A lot. No-one really notices because it comes in the same place on the inside rim of my top eyelid on my right eye. I do the whole cotton bud/baby shampoo thing but it doesn't seem to work for me. Better is a cotton wool pad with very hot water squeezed out and applied as a compress but because its inside that's a bit problematic! Last night I discovered that an unperfumed baby wipe, wiped gently over it, gave me a bit of relief. I've had antibiotic ointment which helped a bit, you're only supposed to use the one I had for 5 days but although it gave me some ease from the discomfort, the stye was still there. Back to the doctor for me. Good luck with it
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Are you sure it is a Stye? As a child I had a cyst on my eye lid that kept getting infected, until I had it removed.
 
I bought Golden eye ointment recently as advised by the pharmacist I was quite surprised because I had it as a child (77 now!) But it still works
Carol
 
chaoticcar said:
I bought Golden eye ointment recently as advised by the pharmacist I was quite surprised because I had it as a child (77 now!) But it still works
Carol
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@carol, had your mom used to rub your eye with her clean wedding ring first, before sighing and visiting the chemist to buy another tube of ointment? - remember saying to my sis when she chose a patterned wedding ring - don't try to cure any styes with that when you have kids! 🙂

Didn't know it was still available. (Wonder if you can still get Pickles Ointment for 'cradle cap' ? - their hard skin remover ointment was brill for feet too when the pumice stone failed .....)

If the Golden Eye ointment fails - ask to be ref'd to opthalmology at the hosp, because if it is a cyst not a stye - they DO need to be surgically removed otherwise they keep rearing their ugly little heads again and again and again.
 
antibiotic ointment for the stye and still there after week warm water towel rub stye that Dr told me to do.
 
When I was quite young I used to get styes, and a freshly washed flannel dipped in hot water and rung out, then put onto the eye as soon as it could be done without pain often would stop it becoming a problem, but if it did grow and grow it would open up one day and empty itself, with a little encouragement.
I think that the warmth softens the blockage and it eases out bit by bit, particularly if the eyelid is wiped and kept clean.
 
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