Talk:Stye

message: "An external stye (pronounced /ˈstaɪ/), also could be spelled as sty or hordeolum (/hɔrˈdiːələm/)"
I can understand how stye might be spelled s-t-y, but it definitely can not be spelled h-o-r-d-e-o-l-u-m.  There is a better way of starting this page:  "...could also be spelled as sty or CALLED hordeolum."     — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.115.10 (talk) 02:29, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence  

message: It would be great if someone could add coverage of the Internal Hordeolum (Internal Stye) which forms on the inner surface of the lid away from the margin.  See http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec09/ch100/ch100d.html or http://www.optometry.co.uk/articles/docs/0e8005e0bc2e021ee066d330df17d893_skorin20020628.pdf for info.
24.7.105.171 22:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internal Hordeolum should be addressed 

message: Do not add the link to a webpage on cosmetics in an article about a medical condition. This link  is much more serious. I suspect your is spam. --pippo2001 18:18, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Shouldn't the old wives' tale be mentioned here as somewhat relevant?  --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 17:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When I was a kid, I remember the elderly telling us that rubbing a ring of gold (or was it silver?) on a stye would cure it. Has anyone else ever heard this? 84.72.92.4 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  My mother always used to recommend the same gold ring treatment. If it helped at all, it might have been from having something cold and hard pressed against the eye. In addition, a quick Google search shows that the gold ring myth is pretty common. Wjousts (talk) 15:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Wives' Tale

message: Sometimes it produces lasting effects, I do not have a scientific citations but sometimes it causes one eye to become uneven with the other(personal experience). I'm trying to find a scientific proof.
I also had this happen to me, I had a Stye in my right eye, now that same right eye isnt perfectly even with the left.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.7.64 (talk) 10:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lasting Effects

message: In the large county where i live, they are usualy called 'Pikes'. shall we include that as an alternate name?
UK - often called Wisp(s)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.53.40 (talk) 09:58, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate names

message: The eMedicine page used as a reference does not suggest amoxicillin for anterior blepharitis. (Which they group stye into.)
People should start using the edit summary. How else can we quickly find out who wrote that!?
Anyway, I'll wait for others to comment. I'm sure that some doctors will prescribe antibiotics eventually if it doesn't get better. But if most are caused by Staph, then I don't see amox being the answer! 219.89.116.136 01:07, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Amoxicillin

message: The link #7 in references states:  "The toxic condition of the child's system brought about by wrong eating habits, especially consumption of foods such as white bread, refined cereals, boiled potatoes, pudding, pies and confectionery is the real and main cause of eye stye."
I believe this to be wholly incorrect, and request that the link be removed.  In addition to this questionable assertion, the page is a cosmetics site, and shouldn't be included as a reference for an article about a medical condition.
Minerva9 (talk) 19:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unproven assertions in link

message: I dont think styes can last as long as 2 years, you might want to change that  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.38.136 (talk) 04:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duration 

message: Under treatment the second (short) paragraph begins "Patients are highly advised to not leave the stye..."  The sentence does not make sense.  I believe that it should say "not lance" but I am no expert here.  Would someone please look at it and clean it up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.191.122.151 (talk) 03:28, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment 

message: In reading this article, i was thrilled to see the following sentence (it doesn't show here, but the last six words in are in BOLD):  
However, the most frequent complication of styes is progression to a chalazion that causes cosmetic deformity, corneal irritation, and often requires surgical removal and a hug from that special someone.[12  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.236.140.34 (talk) 17:35, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you author!!! 

message: The article is incomplete: if the stye is caused by infection, it says
:Sharing of washcloths or face towels should be curtailed, to avoid spreading the infection.
but can the infection be spread after the stye has healed? When can towels be shared again?
I thought 10 days from the stye healing, but I cannot find a reliable source on Google. Towel sharing among strangers is unadvised in general, but I'm thinking about people living or sleeping together, etc.
--62.98.120.221 (talk) 10:09, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  stye transmission window 

message: The terminology in this entry (and the one on chalazion) is very confused and confusing.  The etymology of the term chalazion is from the Greek word chalaza, meaning “hailstone” “lump” or “bump”, while hordeolum derives from Hordeum is Latin for barley plus the miniaturizing suffix -olum to yield a barleycorn seed, which perhaps it resembles.  So etymology doesn’t help.  Various sources have listed chalazion as a non-infectious blocked oil gland and hordeolum as an infected blocked oil gland, but I’ve also seen the opposite.  And “stye” seems almost a interchangeable layperson’s version which can refer to either the infectious and noninfectious versions.  Does anyone have a definitive definition for these terms?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bticho (talk • contribs) 22:36, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stye vs. chalazion vs hordeolum