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Salt for a Sty

Submitted by dobrana

Put salt inside your eyelid, it burns very badly but it works very good. Don't put it on your pupil, put it in the upper eyelid so it will burn the bubble, or go to the clinic and buy polysporin for your eyes.

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SALT WORKS WONDERS!! Comments By: Jodes* Salt water works wonders on a sty. Use water as hot as you can stand it. (Easy Way) Make in an old medicine bottle.Check the water tempature on inside of wrist like a baby bottle. Hold over eye and rinse.Add just a pinch of salt to get out the infection. It feels sooo amazing and it works great.   AMAZING Comments By: Celeste I have a sty right now and iwas in so much pain until i washed it out with the salt....it stung a bitat first but now my eye feels so much better and i can actually stand it!!   Salt water Comments By: amanda I tried the salt water in a medicine bottle it worked ok but it seemed like i had to repeat it a few time to actually get it to work.   Are You Crazy? Comments By: Wayno4 I have a great big stye on my left eye. I am not sure if I want to try warm salty water. It's got to burn!! But it does make sense. You get a infection in your mouth, the doctor or dentist will tell you to use warm salty water! I might try it anyways!! Anything to get rid of this!!   i had a sty for about 4 months! Comments By: SUZANNE i had a stye on my right eyelid for about 4 months. i never really cared that i had one so i thought it wud go away but now that my kids father mention to me almost everyday about it so i looked up how to remove a sty and here this pops up. and i thought yeah rite i might end up messing my eye more but in minutes of me rinsing the salt out my eye i noticed that it is going down. and trust i noe MY STY WAS HUGE! ND I JUST DID IT LIKE 5 MIN AGO! DA PAIN IS AN AWESOME FEELING TOO!!!!!!!!!!   LOL HOPE THIS WORKS Comments By: SAMI I HOPE THIS REALLY WORKS BECAUSE I JUST MADE MY BOSS DO IT. SO IF IT DONT IM IN TROUBLE.   SYES Comments By: Anon. UMHH THIS BETTER WORK CAUSE IM NOT ABOUT TO PUT SALT!! IN MY EYE AND IT DOES NOT WORK I CAN BARLEY HANDLY PLAIN WATER IN MY EYES!   Cold Salty Water Comments By: Anon I recently had a swollen eye so i put salt in a cup of boiling water then stirred it so it dissolved and then put it in the freezer so the water became freezing cold then i got some cotton wool and put it on my eye when it is closed. Its alot less painful but still takes the swelling down and ive noticed it also works with styes. Although you might have to do it more than once depending on how bad it is.   Wondering Comments By: aleep I have had this stye for 2 days and I want tit to go away. The teas bag toook down a bit of swelling, but not the reddness, pain, stinging, or burning. I want to try this method. Although wouldn't it just burn even more? Well, doctors do use it for sore throats...   tears have salt Comments By: jen you are all thinking that salt water will hurt, but thats what tears are. It will dissenfect it.