Has anyone else noticed more styes since using CPAP?
Re: Has anyone else noticed more styes since using CPAP?
You've heard of using a tea bag for styes, right? If not, it's a really common treatment for them. The heat from the warm tea bag opens the clogged duct. It works really well. A hot hardboiled egg does the same, with the advantage that you can apply more pressure. Fresh out of the boiling water, and cover with as many layers of tissue as you need to make it cool enough. That's usually two sheets of tissue for me. Really effective.
Re: Has anyone else noticed more styes since using CPAP?
As often as I wake up in the middle of the night feeling hungry, this could be a good solution.latskogkatt wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:06 amSoak your eye with a tea bag or hardboiled egg? Now I'm just picturing someone lounging about with slices of hardboiled egg on their eyes instead of cucumber slices.They said it's no biggie and to soak it with a tea bag. Or a hardboiled egg.
(Sorry to the OP)
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Re: Has anyone else noticed more styes since using CPAP?
For anyone else who happens to find this thread after getting some styes: I tried a bunch of things to treat it, including teatree oil, which I saw recommended often, but nothing worked. Except baby shampoo! I'm guessing any baby shampoo would work but mine is from Burt's, as in Burt's Beeswax. I clean my eye lid in the shower with it and within a few days all the swelling was gone from my eyelids and no more styes. Phew.
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Re: Has anyone else noticed more styes since using CPAP?
Baby shampoo is fine, but cleaning with any of the common hand or body soaps that don't sting the eyes will also help.
Lifestyle and home remedies
Until your stye goes away on its own, try to:
Leave the stye alone. Don't try to pop the stye or squeeze the pus from a stye. Doing so can cause the infection to spread.
Clean your eyelid. Gently wash the affected eyelid with mild soap and water.
Place a warm washcloth over your closed eye. To relieve pain, run warm water over a clean washcloth. Wring out the washcloth and place it over your closed eye. Re-wet the washcloth when it loses heat. Continue this for five to 10 minutes. Then gently massage the eyelid. Repeating this two to three times a day may help the stye to drain on its own.
Keep your eye clean. Don't wear eye makeup until the stye has healed.
Go without contacts lenses. Contact lenses can be contaminated with bacteria associated with a stye. If you wear contacts, try to go without them until your stye goes away.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con ... c-20378022