Home Cures For Children's Stye By Sehron Guptha At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

The term stye refers to a small painful boil, an inflamed hair follicle or an infection of a sebaceous gland in the edge of the eyelid. The infecting organism is usually a staphylococcus. This disease occurs due to debilitated condition of the system. Some children seem more prone to these infections than others.

The stye usually disappears on its own in two or three days. The progress of the condition can be curtailed by pulling the eyelash at the site of the inflammation. Periodic application of moist warm compresses brings the pus out enabling its easy drainage. Sometimes it has to be evacuated by an incision with a knife. As stye can spread from an infected child to other members of the family, it is essential that the child-patient is given a separate face flannel and towel at least while his stye is at the discharging stage, and he should be discouraged from scratching.

To be effective, the treatment for the stye should be constitutional. A thorough cleansing of the system and adoption of the natural laws in diet and general living alone can help eliminate stye. To begin with , the child-patient should be placed on an exclusive diet of fresh fruits for two or three days. In this regimen, he should be given three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits such as orange, apple, pineapple, pear, peach and papaya. If possible, warm-water enema should be given daily during this period to cleanse the bowels.

Thereafter, he may be allowed to gradually embark upon a well- balanced diet according to his age. The emphasis should be on whole grain cereals, fresh fruits and raw or lightly-cooked vegetables.

The patient should avoid an excessive intake of starchy and sugary foods,meat and other protein and fatty foods, strong tea and coffee, too much salt, condiments and sauces.

Certain home remedies have been found beneficial in the treatment of styes. The most important of these is the use of clove. This spice should be rubbed in water and applied over the stye. This will give relief. Another useful application is red lead. About 1.25 decigrams of this substance should be moistened with a few drops of water and applied over the styes. The stone of a date rubbed with water can also be applied over styes with beneficial results.

The patient should be encouraged to adopt various methods of relaxing and strengthening the eyes. These include eye exercises like moving the eyes gently up and down, from side to side and in a circle, clock-wise and anti-clockwise, rotating the neck in circles and semi-circles and briskly moving the shoulders in clockwise and anti-clockwise direction.

The patient should also resort to palming which is beneficial in removing strain and relaxing the eyes and its surroundings tissues. The procedure is as follows : Sit comfortably in an arm chair or on a settee relax with your eyes closed. Cover your eyes with your palms, right palm over the right eye and the left over the left eye. Do not, however, press down the eyes. With your eyes closed thus, try to imagine blackness, which grows blacker. Palming reduces strain and relaxes the eyes and its surrounding tissues.

Styes can be prevented by good hygiene, proper diet and by adopting various methods for relaxing and strengthening the eyes, as outlined above.

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