Sometimes, we feel certain external discomfort in one of our eyes, like a certain itching, so we pass the finger through it momentarily; but beware, we may be getting a styes and that simple gesture worsens the discomfort. Therefore, we explain to you below what a hose is and how it can be treated.
What is a Stye and Why Do They Appear?
The stye is a small bump that appears on the eyelids; at first, it manifests itself as a small granite of reddish, yellowish, full of pus, when ripe.
What’s your origin? This type of eye discomfort occurs from the infection of some sebaceous gland on the edge of both eyelids, caused by bacteria, called staphylococcus, skin or from the nostrils. These skin-riding bacteria usually remain harmless, but sometimes when they come into contact with the eye and its aqueous moods, they react by causing inflammation and discomfort.
Infection is also caused by touching your eyes with your dirty hands, placing lenses without being disinfected or not making up at night, both the eye and the face, or using expired cosmetics, suffering from infectious skin diseases. It is also common that in cases of chronic blepharitis that affects inflammation at the visible edges of the eye, where the eyelashes are born, there is a certain tendency to the appearance of styes.
Symptoms of a Stye:
The stylus can manifest itself externally, when visible on the edges, and the infection can occur here in the sebaceous glands of Zeis attached to the eyelashes and intended to lubricate them, in the sweat glands (of Moll), or the hair follicles of the eyelash.
However, it may remain not visible, internally, on the inside of the eyelid. Here the infection affects the Meibomio gland in charge of covering the eye with a tearful film. It is more painful and with greater inflammation than the external one.
The appearance of a hose in some eyelid of the eye does not affect our vision at all, although the continuous discomfort it produces is quite annoying:
Some of the Symptoms:
- Picor and inflammation of the eyelids.
- The redness of the eye, both on the eyelids and inside.
- The continuous sensation of having a strange body inside.
- Constant tearing, often accompanied by pain.
- Appearance of legs around the eyelids.
- The eye organ becomes more sensitive to the light.
How are the Styes Treated?
The ophthalmologist is the one who can best examine, using luminous devices, what is the real state of the eye, and diagnose and treat eye disease, because if it is detected early, and is immediately treated, its disappearance occurs earlier.
Always under medical prescription, the best treatment is to apply an ocular ointment based on antibiotic after a localized dry heat massage on the eye: for 3-5 minutes massage the area with a fabric or gauze handkerchief, heated previously with plate or microwave. If we treat it in the initial phase, the stylus will disappear in 2-4 days.
The best treatment is to apply an antibiotic-based eye ointment.
Likewise, the feeling of discomfort is relieved with humidity, by moistened gauzes in the infusion of green tea or hot peeled potato placed in the area affected by the infection, these are remedies that can serve, but have no medical or scientific endorsement; they are the so-called home remedies.
In no case should we treat or remove the hoove, as we can generate more complications in the eye, nor do we use eye makeup, or lenses, even a few days after the infection has disappeared.
Disclaimer: This information does not in any case replace the diagnosis or prescription by a doctor. It is important to go to a specialist when symptoms occur in case of illness and never self-medicate.