Treatment Options for Styes
The good news about styes is that most do not require medical care and tend to go away on their own after about a week. However, you can take action to relieve stye symptoms and feel better faster.
How to Treat Styes at home
- Keep the area around the eye clean.
- Relieve burning, stinging, and itching symptoms with Stye™ Sterile Lubricant Eye Ointment.
- Apply a warm compress, such as the Stye™ Eye Therapy Warming Compress, to closed eyes for 5 to 10 minutes, about 3 to 6 times per day
Note that the Stye™ treatment ointment doesn’t treat the actual infection, it relieves symptoms while the stye heals.
When to Call a Doctor for Stye Treatment
If your stye doesn't heal within a week or two and/or your symptoms worsen after several days of home treatment, call your doctor or other healthcare provider. Antibiotic creams may help recurrent or persistent styes.
Some large styes may need to be lanced to drain the infection. Your doctor or other healthcare professional should do this procedure. Do not attempt to drain a stye yourself.
What Not to Do When You Have an Eye Stye
To help your stye heal while
- Avoid touching or rubbing your eyes.
- Avoid or limit using makeup or wearing contact lenses while you have a stye.
- Do NOT attempt to squeeze a stye or any other type of eyelid bump. Let it drain on its own.
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