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Styes: Prevention and Treatment

February 3, 2009


A small abscess in the eyelid, usually at the base of an eyelash, a stye makes the lid painful and swollen. Styes are most likely to occur when you are run down or tired and therefore especially prone to infection. Home remedies can ease the pain and speedup the healing process.

Generally there is no serious health issue associated with styes. They may heal either by bursting and releasing their pus or by slowly disappearing. Left untreated a stye may last for more than a week’s period. The treatments of styes mainly involve the process which encourages it to burst or to disappear. Styes may spread from one person to another.

A person with weak immune system is comparatively at higher risk of getting styes. Hence is it good to strengthen the immune system to avoid styes. You can enhance your resistance to infection with regular exercise, a healthy diet and stress management. Styes are contagious, so people affected by the condition should not share towels or face washers with others, and they should change their face washer daily. If you live with someone who has a bacterial infection of any kind, take care not to touch your eyes after touching the person. Ensure that you wash your hand first.

You should not attempt to squeeze pus out of a stye. If it bursts spontaneously, carefully wipe away any discharge. Eat two cloves of raw garlic daily to boost your immunity. Make a hot tea from eyebright, marigold. Tea make from Echinacea, burdock and peppermint is also very helpful in boosting immunity system. Take daily supplements of vitamin C, flavonoids and fish oil to help overcome the infection. In case your stye has not burst or disappear after 4 days, you are advised to seek a doctor’s help. You should also consult a doctor in case you get styes very frequently.


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