Barley on the eye: why everyone seeks to treat it on their own

Barley on the eye rarely becomes a reason to visit a doctor, since most patients consider it a manifestation of a cold, and the treatment of eyes with a similar inflammatory element on the mucous membrane is carried out with folk remedies. Sometimes it helps, and the inflammation disappears. But often barley on the eye after self-treatment becomes the cause of the spread of infection throughout the body and the development of severe complications. In addition, tumors, cysts and other diseases requiring surgical treatment can be masked under the guise of barley on the eye.

Causes causing barley on the eye

Styes on the eye, or hordeolum, is caused by Staphylococcus aureus and is an inflammation and suppuration of the ciliary hair follicle or sebaceous gland near the ciliary bulb. The reason for the activation of staphylococcus and the appearance of barley on the eye is a decrease in the body's defenses and a failure in immunity.

Staphylococcus aureus, which causes styes on the eye, is most often carried by hand and transmitted through household items. Perhaps that is why it happens more often in children and women than in men: children often rub their eyes with dirty hands, and women can transfer the staphylococcal pathogen with cosmetics.

The following reasons can also provoke barley on the eye:

• demodex;
• diabetes mellitus;
• chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• avitaminosis;
• weakening of the body after operations or serious illnesses.

Symptoms by which it is easy to identify barley on the eye

Hordeolum, or stye on the eye, is manifested at first by itching and swelling, reddening of the edge of the eyelid. Soon, at this place, the swelling increases and rounds, resembling the shape of a grain, and a yellow speck of pus becomes noticeable at the top. The purulent point causes painful twitching sensations and the patient's desire to open the abscess on his own or speed up its breakthrough with the help of warm compresses.

Unfortunately, self-squeezing of purulent contents from barley on the eye is fraught with the spread of infection through the bloodstream throughout the body and the development of serious complications in the form of inflammation of the meninges or even sepsis.

How to treat styes on the eye of patients

The treatment of the eyes, if they are affected by barley, is carried out with the use of antibacterial ointments, which are injected under the lower eyelid. With the development of a complication, which is manifested by an increase in body temperature, severe swelling and soreness of the eyelid, an increase in lymph nodes, it is recommended to take sulfanilamide preparations with local the use of antibacterial agents. In some cases, surgical intervention is possible with opening and cleansing of the abscess. UHF therapy gives a good effect.