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What should I do if I have a stye in my eye? Don't pinch it! The doctor tells you 9 treatments

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The eye of the needle refers to the boil on the edge of the eyelids, which resembles a wheat grain, red, swollen, itchy and painful, and is easy to become an eye disease with pus, also known as "soil chancre", "soil ulcer", and "stealing needles". It is equivalent to stye and blepharitis in Western medicine.

What should I do if I have a stye in my eye? Don't pinch it! The doctor tells you 9 treatments

Experts from Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that most of the styes in clinical practice are caused by staphylococcal infection, often red, swollen, swollen and painful, and obvious induration can be felt by hand, which gradually soften as the disease progresses, and finally form pustules at the base of the eyelashes.

1. Classification of styes

There are two types of styes: internal and external styes.

What should I do if I have a stye in my eye? Don't pinch it! The doctor tells you 9 treatments

2. Symptoms of stye

What should I do if I have a stye in my eye? Don't pinch it! The doctor tells you 9 treatments

3. Treatment of stye

(1) Eye drops

Antibiotic eye drops in the affected eye.

(2) Apply eye ointment

Antibiotic eye ointment can be applied at night before bedtime.

(3) Moist and hot compress

In the early stage of the disease, local moist and hot compresses can promote blood circulation and help inflammation dissipate.

(4) Medication

Ophthalmic homemade stye for external use of traditional Chinese medicine patch, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, softening and dispersing knots.

What should I do if I have a stye in my eye? Don't pinch it! The doctor tells you 9 treatments

(5) Oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine

Through the dialectical selection of traditional Chinese medicine, different prescriptions, such as Yinqiao San, Xianfang Living Life Drink, Tory Disinfectant San, etc.

(6) Surgery

If the pus has formed, stye incision and drainage should be performed.

(7) Acupuncture treatment

Acupuncture is mainly done by laxative. Choose the sun, wind pool, Hegu, and silk bamboo sky to clear wind and heat, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Those with spleen deficiency can add enough three miles, spleen Yu, and stomach Yu. 1 time daily.

(8) Phlebotomy

The tip of the ear or the valley and the temple are punctured with three-edged needles and bloodletting, which has a good effect of diarrhoea, relieving pain and reducing swelling. 1 time daily.

(9) Acupuncture therapy

It is suitable for repeated needle-eye authors. Look for one or more red spots or miliary dots on the skin near the lungs, ointment and scapular area on the back, and use a three-edged needle to break it with a triangular needle after routine skin disinfection, and squeeze out a little blood or mucus. 1 time every other day, 10 times for 1 course of treatment.

4. Prevention and care of stye

(1) Pay attention to the local hygiene of the eyelids, and do not rub your eyes with dirty hands or unclean handkerchiefs.

(2) Don't prefer spicy, dry, fatty and sweet products, and pay attention to adjusting your diet.

(3) Do not squeeze and drain pus, otherwise it can cause the spread of sepsis and cause critical illness.

(4) If you feel unwell, please go to the ophthalmologist in time.

Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Li Meilin, Department of Ophthalmology, Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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