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What does a heat compress do when applied to a stye?
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Natural healing: The primary effect is to increase the blood flow through the eye lid and allow the bodies own healing elements better access to the area.When this happens, white cells and antibodies can come in at higher concentrations and do the work of removing irritants,infection,debris.
Answered 2/4/2016
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