If at the word "barley" you have associations with cereals that spike in the fields, then you are just happy people! This means that you never had to hide your inflamed eyelids under the dark glasses of sunglasses, as well as frantically looking for tools and ways to get rid of barley in the eye! May God grant you health! Unfortunately, there are very few such lucky ones! For most people, “grains” in their eyes are a common occurrence. Today, for those who quite often suffer from painful boils, I will tell you how to quickly get rid of barley in the eye.
Causes of inflammation
Barley is a purulent inflammation that occurs in the hair sac of the eyelash (or sebaceous gland). The reason for this is the pathogenic microbe Staphylococcus aureus. Many people think that barley is the result of a cold organism. Comrades, this is not so! In no case is this inflammation a result of hypothermia. The reasons for its occurrence are other:
- infection occurs as a result of eye contact with dirty hands;
- if a speck hit the eye and was not removed in a timely manner;
- improper hygiene;
- the use on your face of someone else’s cosmetics;
- lack of vitamins A, C and B;
- weakened immunity.
How to get rid of barley in the eye?
- If you are a girl, the first thing to do at an early stage of barley is to forget about cosmetics for a while! In addition, no need to try to rip off this sore from the century!
- You can burn inflammation with vodka or any other alcohol solution.
- Warming with dry heat helps well! Boil a chicken egg, wrap it with a towel and apply briefly to the affected eye. Remember: heating takes place with dry heat! Keep in mind that this will make your abscess mature and burst faster!
- At night, use ointment for barley on the eye. Here, “Levomycetin”, “Tsipromed” and, of course, tetracycline ointment will perfectly help you .
- If the infection in the eye systematically does not give you rest, then it's time to take antibiotics. Anyway, medications will significantly speed up the healing process of barley. Use eye drops containing antibiotics (for example, Albucid, penicillin solution). The ointments mentioned above are also perfect: tetracycline and erythromycin.
How to get rid of barley in the eye using folk remedies?
Just do not follow grandmother’s sayings and spit in the patient’s eye - this in no way contributes to the rapid healing of inflammation on the eyelid. We use herbal decoctions and solutions. The fact is that they significantly accelerate the formation of an abscess, its maturation and rupture, and also relieve these terrible painful sensations. So, here's a couple of tips on how to get rid of barley in your eye quickly and inexpensively.
- A decoction of calendula. Make a decoction of dried flowers. To do this, pour them with boiling water from a glass, then cool and allow the liquid to infuse for about half an hour. Rinse your eyes with a ready-made decoction, moisten gauze and make lotions.
- Aloe juice . Squeeze its juice from the aloe stalk and dilute it with boiled water (proportion 1 to 10). Make compresses from the resulting solution.