How to care for sty in children

Eyes are the windows to the soul. If a child has a stye on his or her eye, mothers will definitely be very anxious. Stye, also known as "stye", is an acute purulent inflammation of the eyelid. Let’s look at some care and treatment methods for styes in children.

Care methods:

1. You can use a clean hot towel for wet compress, 15 minutes each time, 3 times a day.

2. You can use a thread to prick the base of the middle finger on the opposite side of the child's affected eye. That is: when the child's right eye is affected, prick the base of the index finger of the left hand, and if the left eye is affected, prick the right hand. Note that the thread should not be too tight to avoid affecting the blood circulation of the child's fingers.

3. Apply eye ointment or eye drops to the affected area.

4. When the abscess matures, small abscesses will burst on their own and the pus can be wiped off with sterilized gauze; large abscesses need to be incised and drained in the hospital. After the pus comes out, apply antibiotic eye drops or eye ointment.

The specific approach is:

Soak a clean towel in hot water, wring it out slightly and apply it directly to the skin of the affected eye, 2 to 3 times a day, each time for 20 to 30 minutes. The temperature of the hot towel is about 45°C. Parents can first test the temperature with the back of their hands or their own eyelid skin to see if the child can accept it. If treatment is not timely, in addition to local redness and swelling, there will be systemic symptoms such as fever and fatigue. Antibiotics should be added, such as amoxicillin, erythromycin, or intramuscular injection of penicillin. For styes with pus heads, the abscess can be opened and drained after it matures.

Here we would like to remind parents: when a stye matures and pus appears, do not squeeze it with your hands or pick out the pus with a needle. This is a very dangerous behavior. Why do we say this? Because the face is rich in blood vessels, which communicate with each other upward, and the blood vessels in the eyes are connected to the blood vessels in the skull. In addition, the facial veins have no valves and cannot prevent blood from flowing back. Therefore, if the stye is squeezed or picked with a needle, it is easy to squeeze the pus containing a large number of bacteria into the blood and flow into the skull, causing meningitis, brain swelling, sepsis, etc., which can often be life-threatening in severe cases. In medicine, the triangle between the eyelid and the lip above the nose is called the "dangerous triangle". Therefore, although stye is a small scabies in the eye, it should not be taken carelessly. Never squeeze it with your hands or pick out the pus with a needle.

We will definitely gain something from some of the above treatments and care for children with styes in their eyes. It is inevitable that children will suffer from minor illnesses and disasters as they grow up. Parents must not panic, but respond calmly, seek medical treatment in time, and give their children a healthy and happy childhood.