Home remedies for stye in the eye???

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I have a HUGE stye on the bottom lid of my left eye. I get them all the time. If it is on the top lid, the lid swells up to the brow bone and I look like Quasimodo. This one is on the bottom lid, so the soft tissue is swollen down my face to my cheekbone.

I usually get them in "crops" where I have multiple ones at the same time in the same eye. I think what has happened this time is that I have 2 on top of each other. Can't really tell because it is so swollen.

I saw the eye Dr. in Feb. when I had 4 styes in my left eye. She said I can use hot compresses (which are COMPLETELY ineffective - I have tried them hundreds of times and I KNOW they don't do any good) or I can have them surgically lanced. Perfect.

I know we had a thread about home cures for warts. I need your home cures for styes. I really can't keep walking around wearing sunglasses. It looks odd.

So far I have read that acacia or guava leaves are good - I don't have those. I can brew tumeric or coriander into a solution and put that on my eye. I can put cloves on my eye (THAT sounds like a terrible idea!) or I can put a sliced open aloe leaf on my eye (another HORRIBLE idea). I have also heard the one about rubbing the stye with gold. I have rubbed my styes with my wedding band in the past and it didn't help, so it is safe to say that one doesn't work.

It irritates me beyond words that the Dr. can not think of ANYTHING to do beyond compresses. What if all the compresses in the world suddenly disappeared? THEN what would she say?

 

[Tomader]

Don't feel bad your not alone. I have a stye on my eye lid that has gotten worse. I have tried the compresses and they have not worked. What I did try and I see a big difference is a tea bag. I have been doing it for two days and the stye has gone down alot. I was skeptical at first but I will say it seems to be working. Try it and see. My stye was really bad. I had the Quasimodo look also. Good luck I know how bad they can be.

 

[Ohiodislover]

My grandmas used to soak the compresses w/ a little boric acid, to take care of pink eye and styes, but I don't know...

Have you looked at web MD?

 

[Tiggerlover91]

When I used to get them, I used to take a raw potato and place it on the stye. I don't know how, but it worked everytime to clear it right up. Good luck!

 

[Traveliz]

My daughter just went to the college nurse on Thursday about one - because she has had a corneal transplant the nurse sent her to a doctor about it. She is at UCF and so I don't know the doctor or the specifics but he prescribed some cream - apparently the cream was not to cure it but to make it feel better and she said it really helped.

He also suggested the compresses but since the stye is on her good eye she isn't doing it much cause she can't really see tv then (I know bad excuse but that is a college student for you).

Liz

 

[mlynn]

Try the hot compresses.As hot as your eye can take. If you do it enough it will help. I get them all the time and Wills Eye of Phila. said the best thing for them.Try to start doing this as soon as you feel it coming on.
Also they sell this stuff over the counter. I haven't used this but I have used the pink eye drops from them and that does work

http://www.similasanusa.com/products-stye-relief.cfm

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I have read about the tea bag thing, but all we have is cheap Lipton tea so I didn't know if that would work.

I have heard about boric acid for eye washes before. Maybe I should look for some.

We just came from the grocery. I should have bought a potato.

The eye Dr. did prescribe antibiotic drops but she said they will NOT make the stye go away, they just kill any bacteria that might be in my eye. And she was absolutely right - the drops don't do squat for the styes.

I saw those OTC stye drops at the grocery store, but I didn't buy any. Maybe I will try the tea bag first and move on from there!

Thanks, all!!

 

[MM27]

I've always used a tea bag on the eye. That's what my mom always said to use. I don't think it has anything to do with the tea, but rather the fact that you are putting the heat on it. Anyway, they usually feel better after, and you get a cup of tea out of it too.