You woke up in the morning, rubbed your eyes and were surprised to feel pain, swelling in the eyelid ... Congratulations. Most likely, you have eye barley. Treatment at home or in the hospital? How much time will it take? Isn't that dangerous? Another common question was added - how to treat barley. The answer is ready.
Barley is an acute inflammatory disease of the upper or lower eyelid. It appears suddenly and in a short period of time, edema, redness of the eyelid, and a purulent inflammatory process can develop. Barley on the eyelid may appear after hypothermia. But hypothermia is a kind of “START” button that only starts the process. One of the reasons for its appearance is the presence of infection. In the vast majority of cases, the appearance of this disease is associated with Staphylococcus aureus.
Barley usually appears in people with weakened immune systems. Prerequisites for its occurrence may also be chronic diseases: diabetes, chronic gastritis and colitis. Among the possible causes of barley, one can note the vitamin starvation of the body (hypovitaminosis). Not the last place in the "barley epidemic" is a violation of hygiene rules. In this regard, it is advisable not to allow exacerbation of chronic diseases, not to use someone else's cosmetics, other people's towels or other personal hygiene products, and do not touch your eyes and eyelids with unwashed hands.
Sometimes several barley can appear at once. Depending on the situation and individual characteristics, barley can resolve itself in a few days, or the inflammatory process reaches the stage of suppuration. Then, when the barley “ripened” - a “breakthrough” of barley occurs, the pus flows naturally without outside help. After a few days, the inflammation goes away.
Do not squeeze barley with your hands - this can lead to complications. Despite the apparent simplicity and “harmlessness” of the disease, barley can cause serious complications - from inflammation of the entire eye to meningitis (inflammation of the brain) with a possible fatal outcome. During the treatment of barley, it is undesirable to use cosmetics and contact lenses should not be worn.
Now about how to treat barley: there are many recipes and tips. There are recommendations of doctors who use the arsenal of modern medicine. Recipes of folk healers, who know exactly how to treat barley with folk recipes, are no less (or maybe even more) popular.
How to treat barley (doctor's recommendation)
- Prior to ripening (the first few days), treat the inflamed area with alcohol or alcohol solutions (iodine, brilliant green).
- It is recommended to use antibiotics (eye drops or eye ointments)
- If there is no elevated body temperature - you can use ultraviolet heating (at home, "blue lamp")
- With the re-occurrence of barley, vitamin complexes are recommended, immunocorrectors are drugs for restoring the body's immune system.
It is not recommended to use any kind of warming compresses - this can lead to the spread of the focus of inflammation.
How to treat barley without drugs and antibiotics
Traditional medicine offers a choice of more than a dozen recipes for getting rid of the disease. I would like to note several very exotic methods, which, according to doctors, are "like water - without use, and without harm":
- Roll a crumb out of bread, then attach it to a sore spot. Hold for ten minutes, after which this crumb needs to be fed to the dog.
- Take the barley grain and prick them sore spot several times. After this, the grain needs to be fed to the rooster, in extreme cases, the chicken.
- Tie a red thread of wool on your wrist. If the left eye hurts - on the right wrist, if the right - on the contrary, on the left. Wear 5 days.
Numerous reviews of people using these methods disprove the position of health workers in this matter. A misunderstanding of the mechanisms of the process does not yet indicate the impossibility or incapacity of these "folk" methods. If you ask a doctor and a healer “how to treat barley” - everyone will have their own version. How to treat barley to you personally - decide for yourself.