Home Remedies for Sties
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Sties Home Remedies:
Submitted by Sandy at 2005-11-03 02:40:46
First, I know this will sound superstitious, foolish and or from the mouth of a gullable, naive, ignorant person but as I know it has worked for me and my brother several times and as this won't be any risk for you to try... I will venture to put it out there for you (knowing you don't know who I am) but hey...hopefully, when it works, you won't be laughing... Use a 10k or better gold ring and rub it on your sty, as much as possible. It will stop growing and start to heal. You can use a 'hot as possible' face cloth to place over the eye. If you can lift up your eye lid you will see a white lump that will offer the place where the sty will drain. Use the semi-hot cloth as often as possible. Use one technique or the other to find which one works for you. You'll probably try both in which case the gold ring technique cannot be proven but I didn't usually use the semi-hot cloth technique, the gold ring was the only one I new for most of my life and it does work. Your call....
rating: 7 (72 votes)
Submitted at 2009-04-14 01:50:24
At any health-food store get 'colloidal silver' or 'sovereign silver' and drop a drop in your eye as often as you think of it throughout the day. It should only take a day or 2 to heal. The last few times I have had a stye, I put the silver in my eye at bedtime and I woke up the next morning and it was gone, viola! It was like magic!
rating: 7 (12 votes)
Submitted at 2004-09-26 04:16:34
Wet a tea bag. Place over your eye for 10 to 15 min. The tea will draw the sty. You can use any type of tea bag.
rating: 6 (108 votes)
Submitted by KR at 2008-09-06 22:19:51
Take a piece of bread & soak it in milk. Place it on your eye over night & in the morning the bread will be dry & crusty, your eye will need to be washed...but the sty will be lessened. You may have to try it twice, but it usually works overnight. any kind of bread will do but the milk should have some 'fat' in it. If you have animals...they may try to eat the bread overnight. :)
rating: 6 (2 votes)
Submitted by Renee at 2005-11-17 14:52:25
Gently place a hot washcloth over the itching, ugly inflammation. Believe me these itch like heck and are painful at the same time. It will continue that way for 10-14 days if you let it heal on its own (I couldn't stand it myself). Anyway, keep replacing the heated washcloth directly to the sty (which is only an infection of an eyelash follicle). If it comes to a 'head' on it's own, great! Just gently remove the yucky contents and place a bit of Neosporin ointment over the open wound. OR, after several hot compresses and it refuses to cooperate, GENTLY use a pair of fine pointed tweezers and look into a magnifying mirror and gently remove the offensive eyelash (it should not hurt, but otherwise, feel much better as it will rupture to allow you to gently remove the contents and follow with a dab of Neosporin ointment.
rating: 5 (48 votes)
Submitted by Renee at 2005-11-06 18:09:17
Keep warm/hot compresses for a day or so to decrease swelling. The itch is intense. Simply look into a high magification mirror with a pointed, fine tip set of tweezers following a compress for 5 minutes or so and gently remove the offending eyelash and be easy on removing the pus. The itch should subside immediately and just put a very small amount of antibiotic ointment directly over the site.
rating: 5 (27 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:19
Take cayenne, lecithin, yellow dock, and zinc as a preventative measure.
rating: 5 (12 votes)
Submitted by Lynn at 2009-02-19 12:27:57
I always got sties as a child. A teacher I had said she new of an old indian remedy that helped alleviate them. Put a hot compress on the stie before bed. Then take a cabbage leaf, put over eye, place a piece of cotten over the cabbage leaf and tape so the leaf stays over stie. The cabbage leaf draws the pus out by morning and the stie shrinks. I tried this twice and I never, ever got another stie again.
rating: 5 (9 votes)
Submitted at 2005-01-15 23:45:55
This worked after two applications. I was amazed, because I know it sounds nuts, but I can't argue with the results. Two steps, after preparation: wash in warm water and soap, (preferably antibiotic soap, of course) and use a 'hot as you can stand it' compress to open the pores first, then (step one) CAREFULLY apply salt (I used Kosher salt, but I suspect any pure salt will do, although rock salt or sea salt would probably be preferred, similar to Kosher) DIRECTLY to the sty (don't get it in your eye, it will sting some until the tears wash it out). However, oddly, when it's on the sty, it just causes some tingling, no real pain. Leave it on for awhile, it will dry out and flake off. Seems to dry it up. Then (step two) put on a slice or a poultice of Idaho potato (no skin, of course, just the meat). One day, two applications, it was gone the next morning.
rating: 5 (21 votes)
Submitted by Elizabeth at 2009-08-23 22:20:41
I get sties ALL the time but i've learned NEVER to pop them it just leads to more sties. Instead just put a hot wash rag on it in the morning, afternoon, and night. It works so well for me!!!
rating: 5 (4 votes)
Submitted at 2009-09-08 14:47:51
I have heard of using mustard to put on a sty. Just put it right out of the fridge onto the sty for several hours and it should draw the pus out. The best time to do it would be before bed. Another remedy is using an egg polise. Just get the yellow out of an egg and stir up some salt w/ it until the mixture isn't runny and will stay on the sty.
rating: 5 (2 votes)
Submitted by Gillian at 2006-02-25 00:51:49
Stye:
Heres what I have done, and seen results. I used Renu multi Purpose contact lens cleaning solution (totally safe to squirt into your eyes, obviously if you can put it on your lenses, you can put it in your eyes..but dont let the tip touch the lid, and hold the bottle at least far enough away that you dont contaminate it)and just bascally did eyewashes throughout the day. I also ate bread, 2 slices, with loads of honey on it (honey has antibiotic properties) I even tried to put a small amount of honey on the stye, but the stye is on the inside of the lid, so this burned too much for me, although its reasonably safe to do this, if youre sterile and cautious.
Also I used saltwater and hot compresses. I can say the hot compresses and the honey bread seems to be the best route of home treatment for a stye, just make sure to keep the water VERY HOT, but not hot enough to burn you. And dont rub the stye or pop it, cause this will cause infection. A stye is basically a pimple in the eye, so you dont want it to get worse by infecting it.
rating: 4 (17 votes)
Submitted at 2007-02-17 21:34:21
Wash eyes with baby shampoo. Let the soap get into your eyes, it will not burn b/c it is baby shampoo. This will kill the germs causing the stye!
rating: 4 (11 votes)
Submitted by Kim at 2005-06-29 17:05:06
Put one drop of castor oil on the lashes 3 times a day it will be gone in a day and a half. Note: the castor oil doesnt burn when it gets in your eye.
rating: 4 (17 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:19
Carefully apply cayenne extract or strawberry leaf tea with a cotton swab to bring the head to the surface, being cautious not to get any into the eye.
rating: 4 (14 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:19
Drink dandelion tea to rid the body of bacteria that can lead to sties.
rating: 3 (19 votes)
Submitted by M.JUNAID at 2007-07-29 02:11:49
Well it may seem supersiticious, but it did work for me in my entire life.For a sty in left eye, tie a black thread around your right toe.and viceversa.How it works I can not explain.May be some chinese aquapuncyure doctor know it.
rating: 2 (7 votes)
Submitted at 2007-08-11 11:22:47
greatgrand mother cure it works take a butter knife make a cross on the sties next day it will be gone
rating: 2 (3 votes)
Submitted by Opossum at 2009-06-13 00:35:49
Whoever said not to use boric acid for eye conditions is a moron. It makes a great eyewash. Ask your pharma. How to mix.
rating: 1 (2 votes)
Submitted at 2008-11-17 23:19:15
pluck the eyelashes around the area then put a warm tea bag... A stye happens because of hair follicle blockage so if you can pluck the infected eyelash it will go away
rating: 0 (0 votes)
Submitted at 2009-06-22 12:05:14
Hold a gold ring on the stye for abot five minutes. Repeat the next day if necessary. Amazing!
rating: 0 (0 votes)
Submitted by Cece at 2010-02-13 22:01:02
I always get styes for some reason. I guess because i rube my eyes alot (bad habit). First, i usually pluck the eyelashes around the area of the stye. The hair follicle can block the stye from draining the puss. Next, i boil water and and parshly and epson salt. one or the other will work but both are better. Let the mixure cool and dip a rag in it. Use this as a hot compress. Heat and reapply throughout the day. The area will become very sensitive, this is normal. That night wet a chamomile tea bag and apply it to the stye. Sleep with it on your eye. By morning the stye should be sufficiantly smaller if not gone.
rating: 0 (0 votes)
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