Styes - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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Where are eye styes located?

They’re located on the outside edge of your eyelid. Internal styes: Most of these begin in an oil (meibomian) gland within your eyelid tissue (meibomian gland). They push on your eye as they grow, so they tend to be more painful than external styes. Like a pimple, the pus produced by the infection within the style usually comes to a head.

What is an external stye?

This is the common type of stye. Technically it is an external stye; however, it is often just called a stye. It appears along the edge of the eyelid, due to infection in the eyelash follicle (where one of your eyelashes attaches to your eyelid).

What does a stye look like?

A stye may be a different colour to the rest of your skin due to swelling. If a stye eye has a white spot in the middle, this means there is pus inside. The stye may feel sore and tender. It may cause your eye to water. Chalazion cysts are another type of lump that can be found on the eyelid. These are not painful. What causes a stye?

What is an internal stye?

An internal stye arises when an oil gland in the main part of the eyelid (meibomian gland) becomes clogged with oil and then infected. The infection comes to a head on the inner surface of the eyelid, against the eyeball, so that from the outside it is visible only as a swelling.

What causes internal styes?

Internal styes: Internal styes form on either of your inner eyelids (facing your eyeball). An infection in the inner eyelid gland that produces oils that help keep your eyelid moist causes this type. How common are styes?

What Is Styes

1. https://www.healthline.com/health/eye-health/what-causes-a-stye
2. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/stye
3. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sty/symptoms-causes/syc-20378017

Styes Information

1. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/styes