What to do about a stye?

astonsmummy

Hi
I think i hav a stye on my bottom eyelid, it's red and puffed up, and god is it painful! it is consatntly hurting, and hurts to blink, my eyeball is aching and all around the eye hurts too. It's not !!!!! but there is a lump.
Will i need to go to the docs or can i go the chemist?

Ted_Hutchinson

Patient Uk Stye info

Emms

Ive never used anything for a stye before. They normally just go away in a couple of days. Best I can think of is just eye drops to keep your eye clean.

Emma

astonsmummy

Thnx ted, can always rely on you! x
(should of just googled really!)

kathyd_2

I always got styes when I was younger, really big, red, swollen painful things they were. Mum used to boil water, add salt, take cotton wool, dip it into the hot water and just hold it on the stye. Invariably it would soften the head of the stye and the gunk would ooze out (sorry!). The relief was immense.

astonsmummy

kathyd wrote:

I always got styes when I was younger, really big, red, swollen painful things they were. Mum used to boil water, add salt, take cotton wool, dip it into the hot water and just hold it on the stye. Invariably it would soften the head of the stye and the gunk would ooze out (sorry!). The relief was immense.

It hasnt got to the !!!!! stage yet, but i'll try that when it does, it only came up this morning, but geese does it hurt!

CarolnMalky

I use the old wives tale of rubbing it with a gold ring..always seems to help.

Hope it isnt too painful astonsmummy.

astonsmummy

CarolnMalky wrote:

I use the old wives tale of rubbing it with a gold ring..always seems to help.

Hope it isnt too painful astonsmummy.

thnx, i'll let you know if it works! i doubt it knowing my luck! I've never had a stye before, i look like an oap with a baggy eye!

LondonDiva

I hold a flannel that's been soaked in hot water (not too hot!) and wrung out against the eye at various times during the day

tigerlily

I had advice from an eye DR once who advised a drop of baby shampoo in a mug of water as hot as you can stand. Soak cotton wool in the water and then hold on the eye....it won't sting as its baby shampoo!! I have since tried it and it works, hope you feel more comfortable very soon.

astonsmummy

Thnx guys, i'm gonna go to the checmist and see what they are sayin as it is rediculously painful and my eye is half shut