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I m medical student please tell me the antibiotic for stye?

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Tobadex: Tobadex is a good choice it is a combination of tobramycin and dexamethazone. Warm compresses 2 times a day also help. Sometimes surgical drainage is necessary.

Answered 12/28/2016

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No antibiotic needed: Styes are small abscesses usually of oil glands associated with eyelashes and do no require antibiotic drops. Treatment is warm compresses. Styes of larger meibomian glands can rupture and spread causing infection of the lid (preseptal or orbital cellulitis) - this is more severe and may require oral antibiotics.

Answered 3/24/2013

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Warm compresses: Warm compresses (wash cloth with hot water and hold it on the stye for 5-10 minutes, reheating as needed), or surgical incision and drainage, or steroid have been the only effective treatments demonstrated get rid of a stye. A hordeolum is due to the orifice of an oil gland (mebomian gland) in the eyelid margin becoming inflamed and the gland clogged. Not an infection.

Answered 12/10/2013

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