What does a stye signify?
Styes are caused by a bacterial infection in an oil gland or hair follicle on your eyelid. These glands and follicles can get clogged with dead skin cells and other debris. Sometimes, bacteria get trapped inside and cause an infection. This results in a swollen, painful lump called a stye.
What do eye styes look like?
What Is a Stye? If you have a small red bump, sometimes with a white head, inside or outside your eyelid, it’s probably a stye. It looks like a pimple, and it might be sore. But it’s not usually serious and won’t affect your vision.
Why do I have a stye inside my upper eyelid?
An internal or inner stye is usually caused by a bacterial infection in an oil gland in your eyelid. On the other hand, an external or outer stye is usually caused by an infection in a hair or eyelash follicle. You can get an infection from normal bacteria on your skin or in your body.
Does a stye affect your vision?
Styes and chalazia (that’s the plural of chalazion) are usually harmless. They rarely affect your eyeball or eyesight. Rarely they can cause severe infections of the face called cellulitis. See your eye doctor for any significant pain or drastic swelling/redness of the whole eyelid.
Does a stye mean you are getting sick?
Also very rarely, the infection from a stye can spread from the glands and into other lid structures or even the eyeball. So if a stye is not getting better, you feel unwell or your vision is affected, see your optometrist, GP or ophthalmologist immediately.
What does a stye on the eyelid mean?
A stye: medically referred to as hordeolum develops when an oil gland at the edges or inside the eyelid becomes clogged and inflamed. The spot on eyelid resembles a pimple, a bump or a lump.
Is it a stye or a chalazion on my Eye?
Not all bumps on your eye are styes. Often mistaken for styes are enlarged blocked oil gland in the eyelid. A chalazion tend to mimic a stye for the first few days only to turn into a painless bump later on. Treatment for chalazion can be used to get rid of the stye.
What causes internal styes?
Internal styes grow inside the eyelid 1 and are usually caused by an infection of the oil glands. Here is more information about the symptoms, causes, treatment, and prevention of styes.
What are the two types of styes?
There are two types of styes, internal stye and external stye. External styes form on the edge of an eyelid, and is usually caused by bacterial infection of the gland at the base of an eyelash. Internal styes are deep-seeded, usually caused by staphylococci, and affects the meibomian gland.