About barley

If the word "barley" is your associations with Eared fields, you can consider yourself a happy person. So you do not have to hide the swollen eyelids behind dark glasses and looking for ways to get rid of painful abscesses

But, unfortunately, very few of the luckiest. Most of us at least once in their lives met with the disease called "barley".

Well-known barley - an acute purulent inflammation of the eyelash follicle or sebaceous gland caused by staphylococcus. Simply put, on the eyelid becomes infected, due to which the skin is formed abscess. Causes of barley can be very different: rubbed her eyes with dirty hands, summed up the arrows taken from infected friends pencil, do not rinse the eye after it hit mote. First, the lid begins to itch, then blush, then it swells lump that in 2-4 days turns into an ulcer with a yellowish head, and finally he breaks, the contents flow out. The whole process is accompanied by pain, fever and sometimes, of course, a bad mood - because to walk with such a "lantern" oh how unpleasant! And because for centuries people are looking for ways to get rid of this scourge, just seeing the first signs of its approach.

Fie on you!

One of the most famous popular recipes to get rid of barley - a spit in the eye, to be suddenly get another altruistic, ready for a good cause for a short time to become a camel. Another variation of this comical method of treatment is as follows: Clean the affected area own saliva. Well, that many resort to this extreme methods do not give sanity or even disgust. But there are those whose faith in the magical power of spitting so strong that they can not stop anything. If you belong to this category of people, bear in mind: in human saliva contains bacteria that, getting on an already infected area of ​​skin may aggravate the situation. As a result, a relatively harmless barley turn into a serious illness.

By the way, you should not rely on the healing properties of the urine. Indeed, the urine can disinfect wounds received during an expedition to the uninhabited island, but for the normal barley is to find a more civilized means. The more that the body waste substances in the urine, can cause eye more harm than good.

Cold, warm ... hot!

Another common belief - that the sores on the eyes, it is imperative to warm boiled egg - also subject to criticism. Barley tends to pass itself when the abscess bursts. So hot egg (like any other warm object, whether it is a bag of hot salt, scalded in boiling water or a spoon of freshly brewed tea bag), applied to the inflamed century, accelerates the formation of an abscess. That is, all of its medicinal properties are only to make barley mature faster and burst.

In principle, this should really alleviate the plight of the unfortunate owner of an abscess. But! The heat not only accelerates the formation of an abscess - it also increases inflammation, causing the infection to spread further and further. As a result, you can make money simply is a giant abscess. However, this does not mean that you can not even warm barley: the majority of experts believe that this can be done, but only after there was an abscess. Then the heat will contribute to ensure that he quickly burst.

Hands off!

Many eager young ladies believe that you can get rid of barley, presenting it as an ordinary pimple. In no case do not do it! Leather tender age, but because trying to deal with the ulcer so barbaric way, you scratched it into the blood. And raznesesh infection around the eye. This can be very dangerous! There were times when squeezing barley led to meningitis and blood poisoning.

Also, do not try to disguise the abscess with the help of cosmetics. First, you risk to contribute to the spread of infection throughout the century. Secondly, you have a chance to "plant" on the damaged skin has any infection.

Antibiotic drop by drop

Of course, in most cases it goes barley itself without any treatment. But, first, it may happen that an infection in the eye just appeared, will constantly be felt. And secondly, any inflammation somehow dangerous, it may have a fever and worse overall health. Anyway, who wants to walk around with a swollen eyelid week? The faster barley held, the better. And for this it is necessary to destroy.
Best boils cope with eye drops containing antibiotics such as sulfacetamide or solution of the penicillin and ointments - eritromitsinovaya or tetracycline. In acute inflammation instilled in the eye medicine should be 3-5 times a day or for a lower eyelid every night before bed.

Grandmother's recipes

If the potent drugs cause you fear, you can resort to traditional medicine. But not for spitting and for herbal infusions. The most effective and safest of them - a decoction of calendula and aloe juice. The first is easy to prepare: brew a tablespoon of dried flowers cup of boiling water, cool and let stand for half an hour. Prepare a broth, you can rinse your eyes and wet the gauze to make lotions. Aloe is also easy to get: to squeeze him out of the stem of the plant, diluted with water at a ratio of 1:10 and use the resulting solution for compresses. Herbal infusions accelerate the formation of an abscess, as well as relieve pain.

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