10 Home Remedies for Styes

4.Avoid Wearing Eye Makeup

Avoid wearing makeup that touches your eyelids directly, e.g., mascara and eyeliner, until your stye has completely healed. Wearing makeup could irritate the affected area further and encourage the infection to spread.

Consider replacing the mascara or eyeliner you applied before getting the stye when your stye eventually heals. The old makeup could have caused the bacterial infection, and continued usage could spread bacteria to the unaffected eye.

5.Avoid Wearing Contact Lenses

Eliminating potential irritants from the eye area is the first step in treating a stye. Contact lenses can irritate your stye, cause dryness and discomfort in your eyes, and unnecessarily prolong the healing process.

Give your eyes a break: replace your contact lenses with eyeglasses until your stye clears up. Once your stye heals completely, you can resume wearing contact lenses but only with a fresh pair to prevent reinfection.

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