Styes and Chalazia

Styes can be treated at home by keeping the area clean, applying warm compresses, pausing your makeup and contact lens routine, and more.

While a stye is rarely contagious, stye-causing bacteria can spread in some circumstances. Learn what can make styes contagious and how to prevent them.

A chalazion is a type of eyelid cyst that forms due to a blocked oil gland. Learn about their causes and treatments and how they are different from styes.

Eye styes are caused by bacteria that get trapped in eyelash follicles or the eyelids’ oil glands (meibomian glands).

Styes are usually very short lived, though it feels like they last forever. Learn when you can expect them to heal and how to deal with recurring cases.

The key difference between an internal hordeolum and an external hordeolum is the location and type of eyelid gland affected.

A stye (also called a hordeolum) is a painful, red eyelid bump, usually caused by a staph infection in an eyelid oil gland. Learn more about stye symptoms and prevention.

Most people who develop a stye (hordeolum) want it gone fast. Learn what to do (and what not to do) if you have a stye and how your doctor can treat it.

Learn all about over-the-counter eye stye treatments that can help relieve symptoms, as well as the prescription antibiotics used to treat stubborn styes.

Stye removal can require home remedies, steroid injections or even surgery in severe cases, but most styes heal and disappear on their own.