Rub gold on a sty, sties

A traditional home remedy to deal with sties is to rub the sty with a piece of gold. A ring or similar. Apparently it works well.

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18K GOLD ONLY Comments By: Chey

Apparently it only works well if the jewellery is 18k or higher.

This is so amazing Comments By: Kiwi

I had a stye which was quite uncomfortable, even when blinking. It had developed a pimple like head so I thought it was well past the gold ring stage. I always thought it was an 'old wives tale' but I rubbed it with a gold ring (admittedly it was 18 carat) and the next day it had gone right down and I virtually couldn't see it at all. I repeated this a few times during the day and the next day it was almost like I had never had a stye. I thoroughly recommend this...I was blown away!

try it, it cant do any harm Comments By: Dan

My (medically trained) mother has always used a 18k gold ring to rid us of styes, if you feel any discomfort around the eye before you know its a stye, rub the area thoroughly, and it will never even appear.

14KT gold seems to work Comments By: ejpike

My mother always had me rub her 14KT white gold wedding ring on my eyelid if I complained of any discomfort that indicated the possible beginnings of a sty, and the symptoms always went away.

Silver Comments By: Rianna

I was always told it had to be a silver ring and wash it then rub on the sty for 15 minutes a couple times then it's gone in a day or two.

seems to work Comments By: Marc

count my daughter a believer, I'm closer to believing

Moose says it works Comments By: Non-believer

My co-worker Moose proclaims the powers of the gold ring. I'm giving it a go, if this witchcraft is true I owe him a beer.

my brother says it sucks Comments By: greir barrieau

my brother has tried this and it does absolutly nothing.

If done correctly it works Comments By: jeffrey

It already hurts so you have nothing to lose. A heavy solid gold ring such as a mans wedding ring is best as long as it is gold. pull the lid up and pass the round part of the ring over the protrusion [stie] a few times,it will feel wierd. repete this a few times and use the warm compress to relieve the irritation from the stie.It doesen't take very long till its gone

Never fails Comments By: Bec

My mother has always given us this method not only does it relieve symptoms when u are rubbing a gold ring on their but the pain does not last more than 2 days if you continue to rub a gold ring on there

GOLD WORKS, IT'S GONE!!!! Comments By: Sameyya L. Stone

I couldn't believe it when I woke up and this huge, painful, protrusion was leveled.......
The first day, my eye was just itchy and irritated. the second day, I woke up and my eylid was huge and very sore so I went on line to seek advice. I found the "18K Gold" remedy and decided to give it a try, (I already had it, so what was there to loose). I washed my eye, did the recommended compresses and got an old gold earing(honestly I don't know the Karat) that was missing it's match (I guess I planned to scrap the useless solitary earing one day, but it seems that I've found a use for it after all!) washed it, and rubbed it on my eye several times. I went to bed, and the next morning the thing was literally gone! Thanks for the advise!!!

sham Comments By: kevin bacon

There's no evidence that gold reacts with the bacteria that cause a stye. The bacteria are called 'golden staph', which could be where the idea came from.

The styes are just curing naturally. You could rub a sea cucumber on your eye and get the same miraculous effect.

My eye no longer is in pain :) Comments By: Josh liversidge

We used my mums wedding ring. Admittedly it was only a plastic one however the next day i woke up and the sty had gone. Its a miracle, i can't believe it, im amazed!!

Oh it works, don't know how. Comments By: Melony

the first thing my mom did when she was mines was take of her wedding ring and rub it on my eyelid. she did it twice more and it was gone.

it works but i dont know how Comments By: Melony

the first thing my mom did when she saw mines was take off her wedding ring and rubbed it on my eyelid. the swelling started to go down after.

girls or guys ring?? Comments By: Clare

Which works best?? My friend is desperate and we wish to rid it as soon as poss as she has a date tomorrow...

It works..... Comments By: Elaine G.

I had my son rub my gold wedding ring on his sty (after washing it first of course). It didn't make it disappear, but it did make it come to a head overnight and then the pus came out and it healed very quickly. It was no longer painful or tender.He has used the ring three times and it has healed quickly all three times

Heat & Gold band Comments By: Just try it

This does work. I took a mans wedding ring & rubbed it on my jeans to generate some heat I took the ring & place it my daugthers friends eye. The sty popped in about 30 seconds. She had the sty for about three weeks prior to me do this & it was big.

Heat Comments By: annahitch

Hmm.. then maybe it's the heat and not the gold that does the trick. Nevertheless, I'm going to try it. I have just the beginnings of a stye on my upper eyelid, I'll let you know how it goes. Just how long are you supposed to rub the eye each time?

Gold or sea cucumber ? Comments By: Bibblybobbly

Couldnt find a gold band anywhere and my sty was really irritating , read the thread above and thought id try the sea cucumber option. It was amazing , although a bit big - I found myself blind for a while - it worked a treat . The sea cucumber was not harmed during this and has returned to his normal life . As for the sty - amazing its gone !

NO WAY! Comments By: john andrews

I TRIED THE SEA CUCUMBER AND IT WORKED! next day it was gone.. man your a genious. screw the gold, throw cucumbers on there!

Penny Comments By: Ralphy

I heard you can also use a penny

WOW!! IT WORKS!!!! Comments By: Caleb Walker

I rubbed a TI-83 Calculator on mine and went away over night!! Imagine that...

A Penny works too! Comments By: Alex

I rubbed my Penny on it and it was gone next day. Penny didn't mind at all either!

Unicorns and Rainbows Comments By: Anon

If the gold ring doesn't work you can also try rubbing the horn of a unicorn against your sty. If that doesn't work then as a last resort you must catch and swallow a rainbow.
/sarcasm

GOLD RINGS DON'T WORK ON STYS. A sty is a bacterial infection, not a thing to shine your gold rings on!

load of rubbish Comments By: jess

surely its just the pressure that makes it disappear and not what you put on it????
warmth and pressure seems to be doing the trick for you all

Gold ring doesn't work Comments By: anon

I tried the gold ring tip and the next morning my whole eye was extremely swollen and hurt really badly! I say just use the heat compresses and it will go away. There is no miracle cure.

Logically . . . Comments By: logic.

So, here's the deal:

A massage, warmth, and time can help heal a sty. A 'gold' ring is something small and smooth that's easy to rub over your eye at any given time, plus it's usually something that's easy to find in any given household. The only thing that might be good about it being gold in particular is so that the ring doesn't get messed up. Gold keeps well. Plus, a little mind manipulation could go a long way. Anyway, if you want to prove or disprove it, go find two people with about the same sty infection and rub one with a ring and leave the other alone, then you'll have your answer.

silver and gold Comments By: perry

there could be something to the gold being bacteriostatic.Years ago I sold water filters that were lined with silver. the silver had enough of an electrical charge on its own to neutralize the bacteria that came into contact, gold is the best conductor,and you put out a charge as well, maybe it is static

Causation and corelation Comments By: Andrew

Has any one got any scientific studies to show that this works because there is a difference between corelation and causation how can any of you be sure that if you hadn't of rubbed gold on the sty that the sty wouldn't have gone away anyway. It is simply a corelation that you rubbed gold on the sty and a day later it was gone... Would it have gone anyway you don't know causation would have to be proved by some sort of controlled experiment.

Totally Worked!!! Comments By: Katie

I had a painful stye and I needed to be able to wear contacts the net day. I figured trying the gold thing couldn't hurt so I took the only gold ring I had (probably not 18k) and rubbed it. Almost immediately it decreased in size by half. I repeated a few more times over the next 3 hours along with a warm compress or two and by then, although it was still there it was hardly visible and did not hurt at all. This is a great tip and it doesn't hurt to try it! Also try warm compresses they really help especially if it is hurting!

Surprising...but, this really WORKS!!! Comments By: Carrie

To the cynics, who think it's a placebo, mind over matter, the pressure, or just the act of rubbing your eye...I had an extremely painful irritation in two spots on my lower eye lid. I had just transplanted a cactus, and didn't know if it was from the tiny needles or if it was a stye or infection. I was miserable for 3 days...until I saw my mom.
She told me that when I had styes as a baby, my grandmother rubbed her wedding ring on my eye to make them stop hurting and go away. My grandmother has passed, and I WEAR HER WEDDING RING!
That night, I took it off, and rubbed it (lightly) on my eye for about 3-4 minutes. I was NOT A BELIEVER, but was willing to try anything at that point! It was still RED and a little bit tender when I went to bed, but the intense pain was RELIEVED IMMEDIATELY. I was shocked...by the time I woke up the next morning, it seemed as if I never had a problem in the first place!!!!
Now, cynics, explain this...as a baby, there is no way the placebo/mind over matter theory applied to me, and, this time, I didn't rub hard (BTW, If it was only the rubbing, shouldn't it work when I rub it with anyting?) or apply heat of any kind. I even doubted that it would work....and MY RING WAS DIRTY, LOL.

GOLD - THE TRUTH... Comments By: Scandinavian daughter

The facts behind the gold on a stye comes from a molecular level. The reason you get sick is because your body is rundown ever noticed that when you are HAPPY and HEALTHY you could run through excriment and not get ill or get any kind of infection.
We all have certain minerals including metals in our body and if you have a low quantity of any of these it puts your health out of balance. So it goes with the gold - you do contain gold in your body and when you get a stye it is because you are run down your body is lacking the minerals such as GOLD and the staf. infection is able to get in and cause the infection.
By rubbing gold, preferably higher carrat as it is purer you are adding tiny amounts of gold to your body. It also does no harm to wear your gold jewlery more often and eating a balanced diet of soil grown fruit and veg that also contain the trace amounts of gold and other mineral/vitimins that you need.

It really works!!! Comments By: Erin

I had a small stie on the inner upper eyelid I tried warm cloth and then a tea bag.it soothed for a while but then it became a discomfort again. I then rubbed my fathers gold ring on it, it was gone completely the next day!

Awesome..This works Comments By: Villain

unlike a certain post above...i wont be asking you to you Unicorn horn to fix it...Everybody knows there are no unicorns left..
Try A bunyips toenail or a bigfootfingernail to rub on your stie..
Works every time... I personally will offer 10 Quadrillion dollars to anyone that proves it does not work..

the gold being bacteriostatic Comments By: Omar

"the gold being bacteriostatic.Years ago I sold water filters that were lined with silver. the silver had enough of an electrical charge on its own to neutralize the bacteria that came into contact, gold is the best conductor,and you put out a charge as well, maybe it is static"

Hey perry,
Everthought that since the gold is such a great conducter that it could actually be conducting the bacteriostatic qualities of the silver in it? ]