My Experience of Styes

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Newest Review: ... really does sum it up well. A stye is an infection of the base of the hair follicle, which leads to a sore red pus filled ... more

... swelling. So how do you get them? Normally you tend to get styes if you are run down and are therefore more suseptical to picking up an infection. If you have other lid diseases such as blephritis ( a mild inflamation of the lid margins which causes redness and crusty deposits)this again may cause you to be more prone to getting styes. So whats the treatment? Normally an antibiotic ointment would be prescribed such as chloramphenicol to be used several times a day. Unfortunately antibiotic ointments are not availa...more

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My Experience of Styes: Pigs live in sty's!! (577 words)
by - written on 01/03/01 (Very useful, 1779 readings)
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"Pardon?" said the formidable Sister Brown "Are you totally sure?" "Oh yes" said I, a keen ophthalmic student nurse "It's defientely a stye sister" as I pointed to the small swelling on the patients lower lid. Sister then became a crimson colour as she then exploded and uttered the imortal line "No Nurse it is not a stye, Pigs live in sty's!! It is infact an external hordeoleum what on earth do they teach you these days in school?" This was prehaps my first encounter with a stye or to give it it's posh medical name an external hordeoleum and not my last at the hands of Sister Browns wrath! So what is ... Read the complete review

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