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Tea bags Home remedy for a Sty, Stye or Sties

Simply wet a tea bag and place it on the sty or sties.  Let it stay for a few minutes.  When you do this you will find that the sty or sties usually shrink to half their size.  The tannic acid in the tea seems to help.

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Tea bag Comments By: E.J. Initially the acid burns your sty a little. But the irritation dies down, along with the swelling. It works well.   Works great Comments By: anon Works exactly as described. Definitely recommend.   ill try it all Comments By: chrissy please help me   trying as you read Comments By: kim im hoping this tea bag thing well work because im going crazy!!!!   I HATE STRESS Comments By: Michelle oh s#*t, i just figured out that i'm getting a sty, and i keep hearing about how freaking annoying and painful it is. OH FREAKING JOY.   help Comments By: anon I hear that sometimes you get sties because you are stresseed and lack of sleep...i hope this works because it itches like hell AHHHH   Fantastic Comments By: Leda My eye had been hurting for two days, on the second day in desperation I looked on the internet and stumbled across this website, I had heard about bathing your eye with tea but not for a sty, I thought I'd give it a try. In the morning all I had was a small bump inside my eyelid, after the first try the bump turned white, two more goes and by evening the sty burst and no more pain. I am speechless and overjoyed. Thank you.   sty Comments By: LIANE DURAN i have a sty and its at its puffy stage, hasnt got a head yet, i was gonna try the gold thing, but this just seems more practical, ill let ya know!   can't wait to try it Comments By: Zoe i went to the chemist today to see wot i could get for my stye...and they sed this cream would cost 4.15! as a student...thats definitely not good. but i do no that i have teabags in my cupboard so il definitely give it a try. im at the stage of puffiness and the stye has a head - its on the top eyelid so its making my eye shut a bit - i look as if iv been punched!   so painful!! Comments By: fizza i have tried everything the teabag did not do much for me..took away a little bit of the pain. its still red and painful. my eye is now watering!!   its back again! Comments By: Zoe i can't believe this. i'm obviously using something that has the 'stye germ' on it because the stye has returned in exactly the same place, but on the OTHER eye. i do notice a difference using a teabag though   Help me Comments By: tameka im hopnig this works b/c i get sties almost every year and my not stays on my eyelid for atleast 6 m onths..i dont know what to do to make it go away   it works! Comments By: anon i woke up this morning with a stye on my top eyelid, i tried the salt solution first and am currently sittin with a teabag on my eye! It has definitely gone down in the last ten minutes, although it is still painful.   ? Comments By: leslie does it still work if its under the eye?   Camomile tea! Comments By: CW Camomile tea works best. Make the tea and use the tea bag as hot as you can stand it. Works great. I also put a tiny drop of tea tree oil directly on the sty (it burns a bit) just before placing the tea bag on the eye. With this method i got rid of my sty in just 2 days. It is best if you start the treatment as soon as you feel the sty coming.   It works! Comments By: Helen Tryed this on my daughter yesterday and the swelling went down in a few hours, would recomend!   get rid of eye makeup Comments By: liz Remember to get rid of all of your eye makeup when you get a stye because the bacteria will stay on the make up.   OMGG IT WORKED Comments By: anon geez this thing actually WORKED, well semi. it took some puss out and then tomarrow i'll try again to see if it takes it all out..;]   where do i put the tea or teabag???? Comments By: the force 3 i have a stye and its swelled up on the bottom eye lid the head is on the inner side. where do i dab or drop some tea inner or on the outer side ???   FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!! Comments By: Ally I had a sty on my bottom eyelid and saw this site and decided it couldn't hurt, and it work great i have kept it on my eye for about 15 min. now and it's almost gone! just after a few min. it had shrunk so this is great thanks!!!!   Awesome! Comments By: Ryan Awesome! I had just a real puffy bottom lid and tried the tea bag, it's almost back to normal after 10 mins! WHY DO DOCTORS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY?   ??? Comments By: DESTINY D03S TH!S T3A BAG TH!NG W0RK 4 TH3 !NS!D3 0F Y0UR 3Y3L!D... M!N3S !Z !N TH3 !NS!D3 RUBB!N AG!NST MY 3Y3BALL!!!! 0UCH !T HURTz N II JUS K33P BL!NK!NG, WH!CH !Z MAK!N !T HURT M0R3!! WHAT SH0ULD II D0?!?!? I HAV3 SCH00L 2M0RR0W!!!!!!!   styes & teabags Comments By: qiff never drink the stuff smells & tastes like mowed grass but if it works i will be eternally greatfull, thanks   please tell me that last one is a joke! Comments By: ash Im gonna try this one 2mos... need it gone soon, will try them all till its gone but please tell me that the last comment here bout his mate and his balls is a joke, if not wrong kind of "tea-bag" my friend   itss brilliant Comments By: Vicky its wicked i tried itt..it worked inn seconds a pain warm tea bag   i neeed to get rid of my sty Comments By: danielle iv just got a sty and i havent do anything to help it yet but in going to try this a bit later on.....   teabag fantastic Comments By: PETERHASTY Woke up this morning in agony , with my eye swollen and a great big white head on it . Tried everything possible to get rid of, nothing worked. Then i saw about the tea bag , hold a warm tea bag on the infected area for 10 mins and in few mins will shrink . FANTSTIC   It's amazing ! Comments By: Hannah As soon as i put the tea bag on it the sty disappeared, the pain went away with it! (:   its never been there b4 Comments By: anon i woke up with swelling of the eye it hurts soooo bad when i touch it i think ill try the tea bags thanks for all the help i was getting scared   Amazing!!! Comments By: MM Hey guys, i didnt think this would work either..but within 3 hours of doing it the pus was all gone and when i woke up this morning there was nothing there! The stye had been there for over a week without moving. I know this sounds crazy...but it 100% works!   WOW! Comments By: Tiffany I didn't think this would work. I alwys get REALLY bad stys , And I currently had a really big puffy red one , And then i tried this and it's half its size! THANK YOU! I'm going to see my fiance and his parents (who already don't like me and try as hard as they can to find something to talk smack about) and this helped sooo much! THANK YOU! :D I'ma warm one up and sleep with it on my eye.   get rid of it!! Comments By: CaNdY THE TEA BAG MADE THE SWELLING OF MY STYE EYE GO DOWN A GOOD BIT IN JUST 15 MIN. IM GONNA WARM UP ANOTHER ONE AND LEAVE IT ON FOR ANOTHER 15 OR SO. I HOPE IT WILL BE GONE BY MORNING!!   Help! I have a stye on my right eye. Comments By: zariyah I woke up thia morning with my right eye in alot of pain. So i got on-line to find a remedy and found this website so i am going to tryn it and see if itn works wish me luck!   Still in pain Comments By: aleep I've had this terrible sty on my eyelid for like 2 days now. I tried some nonperscription drugs, like ointment and eyedrops, but they haven't helped. My mom gave me some advice to use tea bags, but my eye is still red and stinging, although the swelling did go down.   almost gone Comments By: carlie ok well yesterday i had this wicked stye for 2 weeks i tried everything so lastnight i decided to do the tea bag thing i did it for hours, and this morning when i woke up it had came to a huge white head, i went to the dr. she gave me some cream to put on it, i used it right away and then i felt it pop, it oozed this white crap then blood just like pimple, so the tea bag worked to bring it to a head enough so it could pop. but when i got up my eye was swollen shut, it is still there and red and swollen but i'm gonna do the hot compress 2nite. thanks for the tea bag advice.. have any doubts just try it....   Hmmm Comments By: JockSE Well i thought "hey that seems like a good idea" as my eye is just starting the red puffy stage BUT iv been through 3 teabags (PG tips) in the last 40 mins and all its done is irritate it.... it seemed like a good idea at first but then again it might just be me and my eye's weirdness lol my Sty is on the inside of my eyelid :P really annoying i saw another remidy where you use milk lol my first thought when i saw this was "hmmm Tea in my eye sty" lol just need some sugar, im gonna put another teabag on it in the morning and ill let you know how it goes when i get back from work tomorrow :)   OK Comments By: JockSE Well it deffinatly works mysty has gone dawn and hardly irritates me at all anymore allthough its still there i rarely notice it :) DEFFINATE YES TO TEABAGS!!!   hmm .. Comments By: michelle ! well , ive had this awful thing for about four days now ! o have school ! so it needs to come off . im here with a tea bag on my eye ! hopefully , it works .   Please describe method Comments By: Robert Martin Ok. My mother has a stye in her right bottom eye lid. HUGE. She is scared of going to the eye Dr (don't blame her...) Questions: You take a brand new bag and "wet it"? Does it have to be warm or cold? THANK YOU!   worth a punt Comments By: MS Wow, after 10mins its feeling better than it has for days. Not gone, but a load better, cheers to whoever bothered to post this:)