11Apr

How To Get Rid of Styes Fast

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In this post, I will explain what styes are, the causes of styes and how to treat them. The purpose is to give readers a basic knowledge of what styes are and how to get rid of styes fast.


What is a Stye
A stye is an inflamed lump on your eyelid, caused by an infection of the eyelash follicles or sebaceous (oil) glands in your eyelid. Most people develop a stye at some point in their life but for some unfortunate people, styes keep recurring over and over again. The medical term for a stye is a hordeolum.

Internal and External Styes
Styes can be both external and internal: external styes appear as an abcess pointing outwards from your eyelid whilst internal styes develop inside the flesh of your eyelid and point inwards towards your eye. External styes are the most common and are caused by an infection on the surface of the eyelid. Internal styes are caused by an infection of the meibomian glands, which are beneath the surface of your eyelash.

Stye Symptoms
The main symptoms of a stye are pain, uncomfortableness, redness and a inflammation on your eyelid. It will feel as though you constantly have something in your eye, which can cause a streaming of tears. Although it is possible to have multiple styes, usually only one stye willmanifest at the same time. Your eye may water a lot or feel like there is something in it.

External styes may also develop a yellow/white head similar to a pimple on the outside of your eyelid – resist the urge to pop it as this often causes more harm than good.

Internal styes can develop a similar head but on the inside of your eyelid and can only be seen if you turn your eyelid inside out. Internal styes are usually a lot more painful than external styes.


Other Forms of Styes
Most styes will heal on their own over the course of a few weeks (although there are techniques to speed up recovery – see below). Occasionally, however, a stye can develop further complications such as a Chalazion (blocked meibomian gland), which is a painless cyst on the eylid or a full eyelid infection. If your stye doesn’t clear up in a week, you should seek medical attention from your doctor.

Stye Causes
90% of styes are caused by the staphylococcal bacteria, which is a harmless bacteria that resides on your skin and the inside of your nose – this is why infants with snotty noses are at high risk from styes because they can rub mucus from their nostrils into their eyes. If you suffer from Blepharitis (an inflammation of the eyelid caused by blocked sebaceous glands), you are also more susceptible to styes. More info on how you can get a stye here.


How To Get Rid of Styes Fast
As stated earlier,your body will usually be able to heal your stye infection on its own without any interaction. The healing process usually takes between a few days and a few weeks.

You may be able to fast-track your recovery by using a hot compress on your eyelid. This involves soaking a towel or flannel in warm (not hot) water – water from the hot tap in your home should be of sufficient temperature. Hold the flannel/towel against your eyelid for around five minute – some pressure should also be applied but not somuch that hurts. This warms the fluids that cause the stye and help them to drain faster. Do this around 3 times a day until the stye has gone (click here for the full procedure to curing a stye using this method).

A convenient improvement on the warm compress is EyeEco’s Stye Care Kit.



Maintaining a high degree of personal cleanliness especially around your eyes is also important to aid recovery, as is taking care not to rub the infected area with your fingers. It is a good idea not to wear mascara and eye shadow and any other eye makeup until the stye has gone.

If the stye has not healed within a few weeks, you should seek medical advice. Your doctor will be able to prescribe antibiotics to treat the infection or schedule surgey to lance the stye and help drain the fluids (under local anaesthetic). Your doctor may also refer you to a specialist if he/she deems it necessary.

Alternatively, if you prefer home remedies, check out some of the treatments on the Stye-No-More website or for further info,check out ‘How Do You Get Rid of a Stye?‘.

You can check out more information about how to clear up a stye on my new, updated website.

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20Mar

How To Get Rid of a Stye Overnight

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Hey guys,

In this post, I want to share with you a little method for getting rid of a stye overnight. It won’t work in all cases, but if you need an ultra-quick stye remedy, it’s worth a try.

If you’re looking for a more reliable way to get rid of a stye, check out this page – it usually takes a couple of days to get rid of a stye using this method but it has an amazing success rate.


Anyway, back to how to get rid of a stye overnight. This tip was sent to me from my friend John who runs the website Get Rid of Chipmunks. If you have a chipmunk problem, check out his free guide to getting rid of them - there’s a free plug for your website, John :)

John emailed me to say that when he was a youngster his mother used to check his eyelid to see if the stye was an infected eyelash follicle.

Many styes are caused by an infection of an eyelash follicle but not all of them – some are caused by an infection of one of the glands within the eyelid, so make sure that your stye is an external follicle stye before proceeding.

If a Stye had developed in an eyelash follicle, then John’s mother would pluck the eyelash (which would also pull out the infection 99% of the time) before holding a cotton ball soaked in boiling water against the eyelid to help drain and soak up the fluids.


This method can literally get rid of a stye overnight if you go through the procedure before you go to bed.

John also tells me that sometimes his mother would also half-fill a mug with boiling water and have him put his eye over the rim and the steam would also help to clear the infection. If you try this, be very careful not to scold your eye with the boiling water!

Personally, I’ve never tried these methods, so can’t say if they work or not but if anyone tries them out, I’d be very grateful if you could let me know the outcome in the comments section below.

Other methods you can use to get rid of a stye include a hot compress (the best method), rubbing gold against it, antibiotics and surgery.

I’d advise you check out my own method for how to get rid of a stye, which usually takes between 1 and 3 days (but has a very high success rate) or look at some other methods of treating a stye.

Oh, and never ever try to pop a stye.

Danny




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18Mar

Can You Pop a Stye?

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Hey Guys,

Note: Click here to find out what I used to get rid of my recurring styes or scroll down for information on how to get rid of styes.

Just a quick post today because the kids and I are visiting relatives in Wales.

I get asked fairly regularly if you can pop a stye by squeezing it and my answer’s always the same:

Never, ever pop a stye!

If you do, the harmful bacteria in the infection will spread around to other vulnerable sebaceous glands in your eye and you risk picking up further infections.

In addition, you can damage the skin around your eyelid and that’s without mentioning the excruciating pain that results from a popped stye (I’ve done it myself, so I know how much it hurts!)

Well, that’s all for today (short an sweet). Bye for now :)

UPDATE JUNE 2011: Actually, I lied – there is a way to pop a stye, but it’s not what you think. Click here to learn how to pop a stye.


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15Mar

How To Heal A Stye Fast

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Hey guys,

Thanks for visiting my website dedicated to getting rid of and healing styes.

What Are Styes?

Styes are small lumps that develop on the eyelids when a follicle or gland becomes clogged with debris such as dead skin cells. They resemble small pimples and often become infected with the staphylococcal bacteria.

As well as the lump, other symptoms of a stye include inflammation redness and swelling that can lead to discomfort and pain.

How To Heal a Stye

There are a number of methods you can use to heal a stye quickly, but the best method is by using a hot compress, which you can read about on my ‘How To Cure a Stye‘ page. This will get rid of around 90% of styes within two to three days.

If you need an even faster method, check out my article on ‘how to get rid of styes overnight‘, however I do not recommend this method as I have insufficient data about how successful it is. If you do decide to try this method, please let me know if it worked for you or not by leaving a comment below or emailing me at styes@gesweb.co.uk.

Between 5% and 10% of styes are particularly stubborn, because of either a particularly bad infection or a weakened immune system that has trouble combating the infection.

If you’ve tried the hot compress method and you still have a stye after a week, check out my Stye Treatments page to see what your next options are. Here you will find a list of additional stye treatments that you can obtain from your doctor as well as some alternative natural remedies.

A very small percentage of styes (less that 1%) will develop into a chalazion. A chalazion is a lump or cyst on the eyelid similar to a stye but without the associated pain and discomfort. In addition, a chalazion can remain on the eyelid for many months of even years.

If you think you may have a chalazion, take a look at my article on how to get rid of a chalazion and chalazion treatments.

If you require any additional information about styes and how to heal them, use the search function in the top right of the page, leave a comment below or email me at styes@gesweb.co.uk and – time-permitting – I’ll do my best to help :)

Danny x



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