On the Stye

Remember when we were young and sometimes we'd have this nodules underneath our eyelids. Mothers would say we get it because we were being naughty. The boys were peeking the at naked girls. While the girls probably saw some naked penis. And hence, we get those painful nodules at the eye lids.

We were just talking about it the other day at the minor operation theater. It appeared that most of us were brought up the same way! Even the Indians believed that tying this black and white interlacing threads around our fourth finger could make them nodules away.

Funny how myths that we grew up with, somehow got shot down one by one as we learnt about the basis behind.

Anatomically, we've got lots of glands underneath our eyelids, secreting what's probably oil (which also explains why we get eye shits in the morning). So being glands, with open fornices, it's predisposed to infections. Inflammation of these glands would naturally lead to formation of abscess and pus production. And therefore, these kind of painful nodule.

Treatment wise? One of it would be surgery. Incise and curettage.

Innnnterestinnggggg isn't it?

The best of it all, the operation was done while the patient is wide awake, under anesthesia of course. But anesthesia isn't given to the whole body, just the eye. Therefore, you won't feel pain. But having said that, patient is wide awake. Imagine seeing all those sharps coming onto your eyes.

Awesomeeeee. :P