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Remove a sty from your eye with tea bags

Submitted by b mccoy ajax ont.

Used tea bags work greay to remove a sty from your eye simply let cool and place on eye for severl minutes a few times a day and whalla no more sty works better than most over the counter products

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It works great!!! Comments By: Anon I tried putting a wet tea bag on my sty and the puffyness went right away. Thank you so much!   Great, I will try this! Comments By: anonymous Oh great, I was wondering if tea bags would help out because I just started getting one I think and I will try this and I will let you know how it worked out alright?! Thanks so much!   trying it the now Comments By: anon got full blown sty willing to try anything will let you know when it goes   my eye is annoying me Comments By: PHIL BARONI ive had a stye for no lie about 6 months or so in both my eyes im so pissed im gonna rob a jewellery store pretty quick to get my hands on some or try this tea bad idea.IM SO MAD   totally works Comments By: A My eye was swollen like Rocky Balboa, and in 3-4 applications of hot, hot tea bags, it totally went away, even the little white pimple on my eyelid disappeared.   the tea bag works Comments By: shanelle the first time i got a stye my bestfriends mom told me to use a tea bag to heal it...that was a long time ago...ever since ive been using a tea bag evertime i get a stye...it actually works   the tea bag works Comments By: shanelle the first time i got a stye my bestfriends mom told me to use a tea bag to heal it...that was a long time ago...ever since ive been using a tea bag evertime i get a stye...it actually works   TRYING IT Comments By: April well im about to try it and excited too!! well i'll c if it works=D   Works most of the time. Comments By: Kris My grandmother always told me to use this method. It works about 95% of the time. The one I have now is being stubborn.   first STYE before a weekend trip Comments By: jackie omg, i've had the most stressful week and to add to it, i developed a stye before i head out to Chicago to see a man i haven't seen in over a year!! I'm TRYINg the tea bags and i hope to GOD from all the great things i've heard, this works!   stye Comments By: gwenny well i was wondering if it matters what flavor of tea you use?!!j/k actually it works fairly well and so does gold as i used my wedding band once.   Help Comments By: Lawonda I have had styes in both of my eyes for 3 months and they are so bad that they are almost swollen shut. Can someone tell me what remedies really work?   What type of tea bag Comments By: Sean As I sit here at 4 am with a horrible Stye, I have just made my cup of tea..do I use Yorkshire tea? PG Tips or Tesco's Finest...this is beginning to bug me now this Stye. Good job you dont suggest coffee because I can;t stand coffee ;)   IT DOESNT WORK IN CHALAZION Comments By: Ann Its not a sty if you've have that for more than a month. I think its called chalazion. Sty lasts only for less than a week or 2 weeks at most.Chalazion is caused by blocked glands in your eyes. I dont actually know if teabags will work on chalazion. I've read on a magazine that if chalazion didn't heal naturally for 2-3 months, you should have it removed by surgery or sort of injection. Going back to teabags, yup, it works.. i just have no patience with that because whenever I put it on my eyes, it keeps on falling sidewards.=)   working well! Comments By: Jon I have had a large stye on my eyelid for 4 months now. After 2 applications of the tea bag, it is now almost gone!   teabag Comments By: silviaaa its on my eye right now...hopefully it works!=)   Hope this works Comments By: Allison Gunna give tea bags a try, just been to see the nurse and now have antiboitics.. eye very swallon and now after 2 weeks of me going back .... they have told me i have a infection..grt... and i of on my holiday tomorrow....   My Sty Eye Comments By: DPO I do seem to get a lot of Sty's one or two every month, I treat them by gently bathing the infected Eye with Chamomile tea sweetened with a spoon full of Manuka honey, after bathing I put the Tea Bag over the Eye, The Sty will normally discharge the same day or the next, and can clear a few days later, Best to treat ones Eye the moment you think you may have a Sty on the way, I find this works better then any thing I have ever been given by a Doc.   Trying now ! Comments By: steffy ive had my sty for about 2 dayz now and i cant sleep and i can barely open my eye so im guna try this idea and let you no how it goes :D   it does work!!! Comments By: shawna I loved it the pain is practly gone, and so is the stye   its does not work for everyone Comments By: Toni sorry i used the tea theory and my sty has not went sown at all and i have had it for almost for days   Yes it works Comments By: Ruthlouisej Have hardly been able to sleep all night because of a sty that's just come up overnight. Have just sat with a tea bag on for 5 mins - as hot as i could stand it (PG Tips if you're interested!) and the pain has started to subside along with the swelling. Fab remedy!   it works Comments By: Danyell R. I woke up this morning and could barely open my eye because of this friggin sty.so I tried the tea bag it took away the swelling and pain.This has got to be best remedy.Thanks a lot=)   Stye Comments By: Anon Hi. I Have Got An Stye And I Was Looking It Up. And I Was Looking For Some Help To See If It Goes Becuase I Am Going To School Tomoroow And My Eye Is Really Swollen And Ut Embarrasing And I Dont Want To Go . So I Was Looking At The Tea Bag Sugestion And Most People Say It Works So I Am Going To Try It. I Am Going To The Nurse So So I Will Try When I Get Back. Ill Let You Know How It Goes   hopefully it'll work Comments By: wendy well i've been have a sty since may and now and tonight i'm going to use the tea and hoping that it's going to work.i'm so embarass with a sty and i also go to school.i hope it does work.   ARGH! gay docs! Comments By: cyst face... ive got 2 cysts.. one on each eye.. ones on the top lid.. and the other is on the bottom.. IT HURTSS and it has made the whole eye lid swell up! i asked for an appointment.. but the doc jus said jus put warm water.. tried that for 2days now.. jus got bigger..=[ im gonna try this tea bag thing.. sounds lyk a legend! hope it goes b4 school starts! GO TEA BAGS! aha   thank you Comments By: jay jay thank you so much for your help i have a date tonight and im trying your method i pray to god it works!!   internal sty Comments By: =[ i have one thats underneath my eyelid and its drooping my eyelide, giving my asian eye an ever more chinky look greaaat im trying this hoping it works   Brilliant Comments By: Rich I was more than a little sceptical about this tip, but I must sat that 20 mins after the first application I can already feel the swelling starting start to subside. Great stuff. Thank you!!   Self Loathing Comments By: KL You said: "and its drooping my eyelide, giving my asian eye an ever more chinky look greaaat" Clearly, the stye is the least of your problems.   ummmmmmmmm i dont know Comments By: sye die i just got thepain and a lil swelling i am going to try the tea bag and see how it works most likely it will be mint favored tea lol.........   cousin's help Comments By: Briana my cousin told me today to put a tea bag on the sty and i thought she was kidding so i did research and its true. so far it helps...ALOT!   remove sty Comments By: nomorestypls It's Dec 31st, 2007. I woke up with swollen eye and my guess is Sty is going to ruin my New Year Eve events. I put tea bags on my eye repeatly for 4 times so far. And my eye already looks much better than this morning. Thanks so much for the great suggestion!!!   teabag on a stye Comments By: Caroline Winn sat here with teabag on my eye. will let you know if it works   Worth a try! Comments By: Jennifer I used this method and it helped my sty come to a head and burst within about 7-8 hours. I would certainly try this again the next time. However, on other websites I saw that it recommended warm, moist compresses. So I don't know if this remedy actually has anything to do with the tea or if it is just the warm moisture that helps. Either way...my sty is gone and I am happy!!!   great it works Comments By: Cassandra this actually works i am trying it right now. the swelling has gone down alot same with the pain   THANKYOU!! Comments By: sophie it worked. cheers <3   ??? Comments By: (*>)< Does the teabag have to be wet or dry? TipKing says: Wet   will try it...2 chalazion surgeries Comments By: cynthia well ive had 2 chalazion surgeries on both eyes before both of them got infected so to the surgery room i went...recovery is not painful but the big lump is embarrassing lol i had one for about a year never went away and the 2nd surgery was both eyes for 3 months. i have a sty now on my upper eye lid, has never happened before, so i dont want to have a 3rd surgery now...so im going to try that tea bag stuff and see whats up hopefully it helps... i dont want more surgeries please noooo!!!   OMG Comments By: Pig Sty I gota horrible looking thingy on my bottom eye lid which my wife asures me is a sty. I've had this thing for almost two weeks now and i'm not really happy bout it. I'm gonna try the tea bag in a mo see if it helps   Been doing tea for years Comments By: Jeanne I've been doing the "tea bag" on the sty since I was a child. Considering I'm prone to them and it's never let me down. The cold tea feels good but the hot tea drawn the infection to the surface. Just remember that the skin on your upper and lower lids are VERY sensitive and should be treated as such. I have one now that is being VERY stubborn but the tea is working. This is just the worst I've ever gotten   TEA BAG WORKS!!!! Comments By: Ami WELL IVE HURD OF LOADS OF PEOPLE AND PUTIN A TEA BAG ON MI EYES MADE ME FEEL AN IDIOT LOL bt it really works !!!!!!!   7 Days With This Thing, I'm Trying the Tea Bags!! Comments By: Wayno4 I took my wife on a Smokey Mountain vacation and on the way, I felt a sting on my eye lid. Next morning, I had a big fat nasty stye. Never had one before. I will try the tea and will let you know.   Just 2 Days!!! It is working great!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! Comments By: Wayno4 After just 2 days and 5 applications of using tea bags,the swelling is down and it is actually drying up!! I cannot believe this is working so fast. I had this mega stye for a total of 7 days. It was getting worse and worse. Once I started using tea bags, it immeadately started to get better!!! I am a believer!!! Try it for yourself!!!   YEAH Comments By: anon pain has subsided. It feels much better. I cant tell if the swelling has gone down but it feels better.   tea bag was just okay Comments By: mk I had huge hopes for the tea bag, but with no avail.... It grew and grew, went to the doctor, and it still grew and grew... I tried the tea bags after it bursted and still it do anything, what a bummer.   Looks like we need to form a Club for Styes Comments By: mk Hey, let's all form a Stye Club, let's make styes a style! We'll all date each other and won't have to worry about it ever again!   Hope its doing something :P Comments By: Anon I've had this sty for awhile now. I found out about the tea bags yesterday and i've been putting tea bags on my eye every 2/3 hours. Haven't really noticed a difference but I hope it will clear soon :)   Putting My 2 cents in Comments By: Colleen Yes A Tea Bag does really work. The Tea bag should be wet that way the herbs can work together. Orange Pekoe seems to be the most effective. Id boil your water pour in to a small bowl or cup let the bag seep for a few minutes then remove and place in freezer until cool 2 minutes should be fine. May want to apply a few times per day on theinfected eye. I swear by this remedey   second remedy Comments By: raised holistically Teabags are most useful, especially chamomile, which has healing properties. If you still have trouble with any eye infection, including a sty, and you are very brave, there is a simple and immediate, but painful cure-all. Boil a cup or so of water, at a small pinch of cayenne pepper. STRAIN thoroughly-very important-through several napkins and do an eye wash with this. This will cure any eye infection. I have done this twice in my life and it has an immediate effect. Once for an infection that had my eye swollen shut, and once for pink eye-which immediately went away.   Y3$ !T W0RK$ Comments By: katrina yeah. i was a skeptic. now i am a true believer in 5 minutes it went 75% down. oaihergiauheriguh im so happy. mine was huge. like half of my top eyelid. okay. it works.   It worked! Comments By: Skyy Tried it just now on a sty I've had for a few days. I see it shrinking down already! :)   lets try. Comments By: blackeye I am gonna try!hope it works...   ouchy!!! Comments By: Mina I never got a stye before. It hurts and I have class tomorrow and I can't go looking like a monster. Im sitting here with a teabag on my eye and it feels nice. Im using green tea and cham bc it takes away dark circles. Beauty treament and end to pain YAY!   Going to try it.! Comments By: Anon Its Soooo Painful :( i've tried a realli hot teabag does it matter if its hot or cold?   my 4 year old has one under the eye lid Comments By: sarah will this help him he has cream but not working its just getting bigger   Tea bags V cabbage Comments By: carly I've had a sty for nearly 3 weeks now and what total choas it is.I havent tryed the tea bag method but i sure will now. One thing if you steam cabbage and put it in a bowl of boilin hot water. get a spoon , place the cabbage on the spoon and put a towel over your head and the bowl. put the spoon wit the cabbage on near the eye and let the steam open the pores.works wonders, brings the swelling down. If u didnt know cabbage its a great detoxifer. Good luck everyone.   y3a tea :] it really works Comments By: v-ness i woke up this moring for the 1st time with a stye on my eye...looked on the computer to c what i could do[1.tea bag 2.a hot wash cloth]i tried tha wash cloth but it wasn't working,so i tried the hot tea bag nd it start going down so fast-now my eyes almost isn't noticeable[GREAT]   Thanks so much!!! Comments By: Thanks!!! Thanks you so much for this cure. I'm just about to have a cup of tea and i'm going to use the tea bag. Thanks so much!!!   sadness again Comments By: Angelita My stye had drained and was on the way to healing,at the last moment..bamm..it popped up again.I noticed it was red so i started putting on hot compresses.It's small but it was huge 3 weeks ago. And I was so depressed about it. I'm going to try the tea,so it won't get any bigger and worse.Thanks for the advice.I have to go buy some tea bags.I go to work on Monday:-( I hope it works.   hot tea bag?????? Comments By: holy swolleeee is it hot or cold (tea bag)   Camomile tea! Comments By: CW Yes, use camomile tea (as someone suggested here before), it is the best disinfectant for the eyes. I also add a tiny drop of tea tree oil directly on the sty just before placing the hot (as hot as you can) tea bag on the eye. It works best when you start the treatment right away - when you just feel the sty is starting.   tea on my stye!? Comments By: abigail Hey....i have a sty i think and its under my eyelid...its very painful...im going to try the tea thing....it seems like it works so we will see now... Thanks   OMG IT WORKS Comments By: Taylor Yesterday i tried putting a warm teabag on my sty, i did it about 3 times and it worked in less than 2 days! i also was able 2 enjoy cups of tea lol!   T-5 With a stye Comments By: Thomas # 5's mom My 4 year old has had a stye for about 2 months, and we took him to a pediatric ophthalmologist (sp), and she would not do ANYTHING except HOT COMPRESSES 6-8 times a day. SHe said absolutely NO TEA BAGS, but my husband's grandmother, who raised 8 kids rold me to try it, and so far after 2 days, it has shrunken considerably. I think it works, but we will see if it goes away soon!   had it for 3 days ( i jus did research) Comments By: Ash... with research i've found that the tea bags have tannic acid that kills the bacteria that is formed in ur eyes causin a stye. I've had mine for three days now and i'm jus not findin out this information. For two days i was stickin my head in warm salt water... it kinda made my stye harder ( i don't kno if that's a good thing or not), and now i have this red mark under my eyelid where the stye is as if it's brusied or sumthin. I don't exactly know how to get rid of that, but i've tried the tea bag method and it seems to be working a bit. My eyelid isn't as swollen as b4.   this better work!!!!!! Comments By: kayla i'm gonna try it right now i really hope it works!!   nasty stye Comments By: latisha i have never had this my eye was itching and the next day it was swollen i went to the emergency room the dr inseted some penicillin drops then he put 500 mili of bacitracin and gave me a prescription for augmentin but the teabag thingy is making it feel so much netter less swelling   Bloomin Genius Comments By: Hannah =] Tea bags are actually legends if i must say. felt the pain last nite and woke up to a nicely swolen eye with a big fat spot on it =[ . no fear however as the stye is not going away thanks to the tea bag. plan a few more apps before i go out tommorow :D thankyouuuuuu x   ahh! Comments By: Alexa Okay, so like 6 days ago I got this horrible sty. I think it popped, but the swelling is really bad and most of today it was almost swollen shut. I would not have a huge problem and let it just take time to go away.. except for the fact that i go to camp in 2 days!! I need something that works - and fast. After seeing all of these comments I figure I will try the teabag thing out. My mom is at the store getting chammomile tea bags, and while she is gone, i think i will raid her jewelry box and try the gold band thing. Its worth a shot. I am so praying that this stupid thing goes away!! I cant look like a freak going to camp!!!! This better work, because I have tried practically everything. Tomorrow I may also try the potato thing, because my main problem is the fact that it is so swollen - there is not much pain now. Wish me luck! Tell ya if it works!   It really works!!:) Comments By: Anon i have my sty for about 3 weeks and i been using the hot tea bags for 3 days and the white stuff is gone, it is really going way.   brilliant Comments By: alun It worked perfect   What the?? Comments By: anthony garcia Well, it's true, a tea bag does work, just pick out your favorite flavor and dab it in some warm water and let it sit on the infected spot for about 10 minutes at a time (a few times a day) and watch it work its wonder.   Problem Eye! Comments By: Happy Mark from Edinburgh Im doing a scuba diving course this weekend and its crucial that both my eyes are working properly and i have just tried the tea bag method and it is now going away, thankyou so much for this advice!   How Long will this Tea Bag method take? Comments By: Anon I jsut started my first round of tea bags & i notice a little difference in swelling. I used the same tea bags 3 times. How long will the tea bags take to work its magic??! When should i use them?? all at once or throughout the day?   this better works Comments By: kris mine actually is a chalazion but im so mad about this because its nasty and ugly and im gonna try evrything just to get rid of this bitch...! but thanks toyall im about to try this hopefully it works....   sty must die Comments By: leeds I have just tried the tea bag and was wounder how many times you have 2 use the tea bag on the sty?? Opee it works fingas crossed :D   Yikes!! Comments By: Manuel I just did it for the first time after reading a few comments. I made the tea pretty hot and, without thinking, steeped the bag for about a minute. I held the bag on my eye until it cooled. I CHECK THE MIRROR AND I LOOK--I LOOK LIKE I GOT THESE FREAKIN BURNS ALL OVER MY KISSER!!   the tea bags work so well! Comments By: Kate i just got an internal style yesterday and after reading this i put the tea bag to my eye. after about 3-4 times it totally went away the puffiness and the redness!   Overnight Treatment Comments By: Anon ok, well i have been searching around for cures to my HUGE sty and one i found said to place a NONHERBAL tea bag on your eye, bandage it up so it stays in place and take it off in the morning... you can just say buh-bye mr. sty.