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What Could Be The Reason Of My Eye Swelling ?
I woke up yesterday morning with swelling under my eye (botton eyelid) it s quite painful to touch and tender and it just feels like my eye is really swollen - no redness or anything. its quite painful along the bottom of the lower eyelashes. what could this be?
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
This seems to be stye. In our lids, there are glands of Zeis & meibomian glands. These get blocked. Then these get infected & swollen. This leads to stye which causes severe pain. Take following treatment
. Oral antibiotics for 5-7 days
. Analgesics 2-3 times a day for 3-4 days
. Hot fomentation with clean dry hankerchief
. Apply antibiotic eye ointment to eyelid
Don't neglect it. Sometimes neglected stye cases may develop severe lid edema with pain, fever, etc. This is called as orbital cellulitis. In this case, one may need oral antibiotics for longer duration & hospital admission for intravenous antibiotics
. Oral antibiotics for 5-7 days
. Analgesics 2-3 times a day for 3-4 days
. Hot fomentation with clean dry hankerchief
. Apply antibiotic eye ointment to eyelid
Don't neglect it. Sometimes neglected stye cases may develop severe lid edema with pain, fever, etc. This is called as orbital cellulitis. In this case, one may need oral antibiotics for longer duration & hospital admission for intravenous antibiotics
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this shows infection.you can have hot foamentation and antibiotics.usually it is one of the glands on the lid margin which get infected.takes you 3-4days to get over the problem
this shows infection.you can have hot foamentation and antibiotics.usually it is one of the glands on the lid margin which get infected.takes you 3-4days to get over the problem
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