can you wear contacts while applying stye medication?

Question

Why shouldn't i wear contacts if I have a stye on my eyelid?

Answer 1

Contacts and meds: I discourage wearing contact lenses while using ocular medications. You may wear your glasses until the treatment has been completed. The medication can coat and damage the contact lenses, there may be increased risk of corneal infection with an active lid infection, which would be another reason to discontinue contact lens wear.

Answer 2

Warm Compresses: Try a warm compress for 15 min three times a day. If after a few days it's not improving, see your doctor.

Answer 3

Warm compress: Styes are like "zits" of the eyelid. Treat with warm compresses initially. Your doctor can prescribe eye drops that can prevent recurrences. Also lid scrubs should be used for maintenance

Answer 4

Compresses: Place warm, wet compresses for 10 minutes three to six times a day. Don't try to squish or squeeze your stye.

Answer 5

One tip: Microwave a clean potato with the skin on for four minutes. Wet a wash cloth or small towel with warm or hot water. Squeeze out the excess water and wrap it around the potato. Apply this to the eye lid until it cools down (about 15minutes).This can be repeated intermittently. Please see your opthamologist if no improvement.

Answer 6

Week or two: Most drained styes will have improved greatly within a few days, and be essentially resolved within a week. A few drained styes will have significant residual gland ular material remaining in the lid, and if it doesn't resolve with warm compresses and topical medications, sometimes another drainage procedure is required.

Answer 7

Stye on eyelid: Yes but..... If the stye is small, and does not push on the cornea, it is ok to wear contacts. If the stye grows bigger and impinges on the cornea, it may be uncomfortable to wear contacts. Try hot compresses three times a day for 5 minutes. If the stye persists, contact your local ophthalmologist.

Answer 8

Sometimes: A stye is the common term for a pimple like inflammation of the lid and lid margin. If located on the edge it is termed an external hordeolum and if in the substance of the lid, it is termed internal hordeolum. Your ophthalmologist can recommend the best treatment for this.

Answer 9

Yes and more: Stye is a general non-medical term used by non-ophthalmologist describing generally any pimple like lesion of the eyelid. Most people do interchangeably use stye for hordeolum and chalazions. Hordeolum and chalazion, are same except hordeolum usually appears red and painful, suggesting an infection. Chalazion are not red or very painful. Either can be internal or external.

Answer 10

Clogged oil gland: A hordeolum (often referred to as a stye) is when an oil gland (mebomian gland) of the eyelid margin becomes clogged. The oil backs up and forms a nodule and inflammation. An internal hordeolum is when the nodule protrudes on the anterior surface of the eyelid and a internal is when it protrudes on the back surface of the eyelid.

Answer 11

Stye: Use an over-the-counter treatment. Try an ointment (such as stye), solution (such as bausch and lomb eye wash), or medicated pads (such as ocusoft lid scrub).

Answer 12

Compresses!: You can use warm compresses - a washcloth with warm water and hold it to the closed eye for 5-10 minutes 3 times a day. You can massage it with your fingers after the compress, but do not aggravate it. You are trying to get it to drain on its own. You may need it incised and drained if this does not work. See and ophthalmologist. A sty is not and infection, so antibiotics do not help.

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