How do I get rid of a sty?

Using a hot compress is definitely the right answer. I've experienced these and hot applications and a little time will remedy it. A doctor will drain it only as a last resort and he will recommend hot applications instead.

this may sound weird but it really does work. rub a gold ring or something gold on the stye and it will go away. you might need to do it a few times though.

My mom use to rub gold ring on her jeans to warm it then she rub the ring onto my eye *soft* it work i dont know how but yea it work,also my nonna says breast milk but if you dont have it then gold ring my Nonno says take clove from garlic and grind put on a q-tip and put on the sty with eye closed it works all of them

Moisten a regular tea bag
Place it on the closed eye
Apply a bandage to keep it in place
The tea will draw the stye.

I've had a sty for 7 months. I dont regularly put a hot compress on it (the doctor said do it for twenty minutes five times a day and I just dont have that kind of time), but I do try to do it at least once a day. It still hasnt gone away. A doctor gave me antibiotics, but they didnt work, and my aunt gave me an ointment, and it helped a little, but it's now back to its original size, with no white head in sight. I don't know what to do anymore.

The most common recommendation for getting rid of styes is to apply a warm compress to the infected area. Warm up a pot of water or just use hot tap water to dampen a wash cloth, then hold the cloth over your eye for 15 minutes at a time. Do this several times a day for as long as it take for the sty to drain on its own. The best thing for getting rid of styes is to let them drain on their own, that way you’re sure to avoid secondary infection that could be brought on if you attempt to pop the sty or rupture the inflamed skin.

Over-the-counter antibiotic ointments like Neosporin can help get rid of styes. In fact, some companies like Neosporin have special antibiotic sty treatments where you apply a strip that sticks to your eyelid for a period of time. Since most sties are, again, caused by a bacterium, antibiotics (the dominant treatment for bacterial infections in western medicine) are employed to kill the Staph bacteria. If you can do this with a cheap over-the-counter antibiotic cream, you’ve saved yourself a trip to the doctor and an expensive prescription.

If your sty lasts longer than 7 days, over-the-counter antibiotic eye drops prescribed by your doctor will help get rid of sties. That is, if your styes are in fact caused by S. aureus. It is a good idea to see your doctor if you suffer from chronic or repeatedly infected styes. Generally a painful stye caused by bacterial infection is cured with antibiotics, but sometimes styes can be a secondary infection caused by another more serious disease like blepharitis or something as benign as a susceptibility to chalazions.
If you want to get rid of a sty, you can have a physician or a nurse pop it. I will say that because a stye is a lot like a small blister or pimple, it is possible to pop it to get rid of it, but I wouldn’t recommend this approach. Besides the obvious dangers of putting anything sharp near your eye, you also risk further infection by giving the other bacteria on your skin an open wound to infect. If a stye is just too damn painful, get a nurse or a doctor to pop it for you, the right way, with sterilized instruments and lots of rubbing alcohol—this is, of course, a last ditch effort to get rid of styes.

Washing your hands on a regular basis will help to prevent styes from occurring. Because most styes, or sties, are caused by the S. aureus bacteria, and Staphylococcus is one of the most common bacteria found on human skin, it’s a good idea to wash your hands when you’re in public places. Also, wash your hands before touching your face, and wash your hands before touching part of your face (like your nose, where most S. aureus bacteria live) and then touching another part of your face. Just stop touching things and keep your hands and face clean! And don’t pick your nose!

I know this sounds weird, but... if you pass gas (fart) into a brown, paper bag, then open it just enough for your eye to fit into it. with the fart gas still in the bag, put the bag up to your eye. leave it on there for about 1 hour.

the methane gas in your fart will clean the pore, and the sty will go away. i know this sounds gross, but if you can find another way to find methane in a form that won't hurt your eye let me know.

Get you farm land rezoned and bulldoze it.
If is the other type, I don't know.

Pee or garlic on my eye - think I will keep the STY

put a warm compress on it i have one right now too!

Get antibacterial soap, and wash where the sty is. I did this, and it went away. Just make sure you don't get the soap in your eye.

I got a sty two years ago and it lasted for about 2 weeks (I even had it for graduation!). So this morning, when I woke up, I was very dismayed to see a new sty forming. I boiled some water, put it into a large bowl, stuck my head over the steam and enclosed both my head and the boil in a towel. I opened my eyes and let the steam in and it really helped numb the pain and I think it's starting to go away now!

First off a stye is casused by a bacterial infection so the pee in a cup or a gold ring is just not going to work, sry it folklore. hot compresses or antibiotics are the only 2 options...

I got the answer to the sty problem. pee in a cup and boil the pee. let the pee cool down a little and use a rag and swab the urine on your eye. this will get rid of your sty in the matter of hours. I use this process for years to get rid of sty's beleave me nobody wants that PIMPLE hanging ova your eye longer than you need to. it sounds crazzy but it works!!!!

I get these often. I use a solution of warm water (let it cool down after being boiled) and salt.
Soak some cotton wool in the solution and hold to your eye for about a minute, repeat this a few times with fresh cotton wool. Done twice a day it seems to clear the sty in a couple of days.

Stick with the hot massages. The warmth will loosen the puss and hopefully you can pop it. Don't cause more damage with you treatment.
They usually resolve themselves in a couple of days. If it persists, see your eye doctor. These warm messages can also prevent new styes from forming.

You need to visit an opthalmologist and get a Rx ointmenmt. It'll ease the pain and prevent infection.

If you look closely there are little holes along your eyelid and when one of those holes gets clogged than the liquid stuff builds up until there is to much pressure and it expands and blows out of the hole then it flows normally. Why they say put a hot compress on it is because heat expands things so it expands and leaves sooner.

i have a sty right this moment, and im in school(snekaed on this website) and i rubbed a gold ring on it last night, BUT IT DIDNT WORK, all my friends have told me to rub a gold ring on it, and i have, still not working.. any other suggestions?
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pop it

Move?
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When I was 14 I had a stye develope on my eye lid, I could not for the life of me get rid of it, finally when I was 16 and fed up with the swelling every morning, and pain every now and then, I had made an apt at the General Hospital(in my region) at the eye institute, sure enough he said that there was nothing I could do, except to get it surgically removed, I was so excited yet scared at the same time it's been almost 4 years since the operation and the stye has no come back. If you have had a stye for longer than a week, then there is a problem..you may have to see a Docter, when the Doc prescribes Antibiotics and still now luck, you may have to get it surgically removed...

I am an OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANT.... DO NOT put olive oil in your eye! Nor Fart in a bag, People!!! Warm compresses, that's it, then see your EYE DOCTOR!

I am an Ophthalmic assitant for 13 years... DO NOT put Olive oil, pee, or fart in your eye! Warm compresses, then see your eye Doctor..

I know this may sound really weird, and you might be scared being so close to your eyeball but, take a pair of tweezers and if you can see the white stye pull it out like you are plucking it. Its instantly removed and no more worrying about the pain. Trust me, My daughter and I get them a lot and we always do it and it feels so much better!

a warm moist teabag works wonders :)

Asked my doctor yesterday and she gave me the cure!!! Make sure you're hands are clean and get a cotton bud, place the cotton bud in some hot water with baby shampoo, very gently clean the infected eye, inside and out, it stings for a few seconds but worth it because last night it weeped and today its completely gone!
Yay!!

I have been getting Chalazions about once a year for the last 5 years or so. They can be annoying and painful and can also require a long time to get rid of them. . . until a recent discovery. I stumbled onto this by accident. Soon after a recent back surgery, a Chalazion developed in my lower right eye lid. At this same time, I started to take a 24-hour diet of Aleve because of a deck project I was working on and thought it would be a good preventative approach in fighting any inflamation to my back. I started by taking 2 on the first morning and one at 8:00 at night. Then I started a regular regimen of one at 8 in the morning and one at 8 night. I never had to soak the eye and the Chalazion went away in about a week. I just started getting another one recently and started the Aleve treatment immediately. In less than a week it was gone. If you are okay with taking Aleve, this is like magic, especially if you have ever had any issues with these annoying things in the past.

I've got another oddball treatment that worked for me: bend the eyelid & let air hit the back of it, just for 10-15 seconds.

I just got a stye and the only way i got rid of it is by looking in to Olive oil and swirl it round... then rub a gold ring on it! It may sound weird but it works! x

i hate stys!!!! i just got one yesterday. i had two stys last year and it took me 8 months to get rid of it (: and now i get one again . aaaah i hate stys so flippin much. ive been putting in eyedrops and using hot cloths and tea bags and stuff. so hopefully it will go away in a few days :D ♥

P.S all those people who have been trying to get rid of their stys for months and cant seem to get rid of it.well dont worry :) i know the pain you are going through (: xx

Ive had my stye for about 5-6 months i'm so sick of it! First I had 1 and my doctor ended up popping it that was so scary having a needle next to my eye but now I have 2 more right next to each other on my other eye! Ive been trying tea bags, eye drops, compresses, everything!!! Nothing works I really don't want to go through surgery again! ESPECIALLY WHEN I HAVE TO SEE EVERYTHING HAPPEN! Someone please help.

My doctor gave me this therapy:

Soak the stye with a fairly warm used teabag. Be care it is not too hot! Soak it for 20 minutes. Then apply a small dab of Neosporin or any other antibiotic cream.
It did the trick for me. My stye was gone in 2 days.

If it is not too far advanced I find that rubbing (gently)gold (wedding rings etc)on it. It works for me. Bazza

this is the second one i get in less than a month....im stressing, do you think thats what is causing me to keep getting them in such a short period of time? i threw my make up out, i bought over the counter stye meds, im putting neosporin also, and doing the warm towel thing! still no luck!

I've had a stye before, and hot compresses and hot used teabags on my eye seemed to speed up the process. I was in college at the time and working on a play, so I imagine stress, sleep deprivation, etc. had a lot to do with it. It was very painful and inflamed, so I also took Aleve regularly to help with that until it was gone.

I think I might be getting another stye, and in my research, I found info about Chalazion, this stye look-alike. For those of you who've had a bump on your eyelid for a long time that won't go away, maybe it's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalazion

Be well, everybody.

Demolish it and build a house...provided your land use permits that...or let it be rezoned....

Use a 'Hot Potato' as a compress.

I worked as an optometric assistant for 10+ years,...
The sty is normally caused by a blocked/infected hair follicle along the eyelid.
HOT COMPRESSES help to open the pores, to allow trapped dirt out. (A microwaved potato is sometimes used because it stays HOT much longer than a washcloth would).
You can also try washing CAREFULLY with soap.

If it persists, go see a reputable optometrist or opthalmologist. I've seen people have calcified 'knots' form in their eyelid, where a sty was left untreated. These 'knots' require surgery to remove.

I know this sounds strange but get a big ginger dog turd and rub it on your earlobes , it works!

not by rubbing it with your friends panda hat

I got a sty two years ago and it lasted for about 2 weeks (I even had it for graduation!). So this morning, when I woke up, I was very dismayed to see a new sty forming. I boiled some water, put it into a large bowl, stuck my head over the steam and enclosed both my head and the boil in a towel. I opened my eyes and let the steam in and it really helped numb the pain and I think it's starting to go away now!

Hi, I have had a stye for about 8 months now, and i have tried tea bags, hot compressions, antibiotic creams, every type of eye drop you can think of, and antibiotic pills and all. I got fed up with it once I discovered I had 5 styes now. One of my upper left eye lid, which is the biggest one, two on my bottom left eye lid, one on my upper right eye lid, and the last one on my botton right eye lid. About three months ago, I went and got my upper left eye lid popped, but its coming back. I really don't know what to do now, I don't want to get another surgery, thinking it'll come back 3 months later! Someone please help me, I don't know what to do!