How To Treat An Eye Stye

How to treat a stye. What is a stye? Well, a stye is a little boil or a little infected area involving the eyelids. In most cases, the lower eyelid is affected, and it is where the eyelash penetrates through the skin, there's a little gland, a little follicle there, we call it, which, if it becomes infected, will blow up like a little mini boil, if you like.

How does the infection occur? Well, you know, just, I suppose, by wiping your eyes with something that might be a bit infected, there are germs in the air; basically, we don't exactly know what causes a stye but it is a little boil, a little globule structure at the base of the eyelash, usually in the lower eyelid. Obviously, one will notice it, one will feel something there, and although vision is in no way impaired, there is a slight mechanical obstruction which might just make the vision a little less than normal because there just is something in the way. These are very, very tiny and don't cause any major problem of obstructing the sight.

If you leave them alone, they will get bigger up to a point, and then they will burst, there will be discharge, there will be a little pus material which will come out, which you wipe away with a clean tissue, and then the stye will dry up. An alternative way, if you want to do something more active, perhaps some eye ointment or some eye drops, just apply it to the eye or to the stye itself, which is a bit difficult. That may help resolve the situation a little quicker than allowing nature to take its course.

But invariably, nature will take its course; the stye will pop and it will clear up. That is how to treat a stye.