Hi Elaine, A friend of mine named Jackie gets a sty about twice a year. She applies CS with a Q-tip directly to the sty several times a day. Sty goes away within a day. The pain also stops at the first application. The sty is a plugging up of a sebaceous gland at the margin of the eyelid, however, we also consider the pimple under the eyelid a sty. The etymology of the word sty is interesting. Starting out as "styanye" (which was understood to mean sty on eye), becoming stye and now just sty. The sty begins as a pimple and then becomes infected by a pathogen of the cocci, the one species in particular is "Staphylococcus aureus", which is also responsible for boils and other skin eruptions. The number of bacteria on the skin is tremendous, from 2.4 million bacteria per square centimeter in the axilla (armpit) and groin, to as low as 314 per square centimeter on the back.
Bless you, Bob Lee elaine davis wrote: > Ken do you mind if I send this post of yours, just as you wrote it, to a > group where they are wondering about CS and stys and stuff like that?? > Elaine > > <<<<<If stys are staph... I had a sty in my eye that dissappeared in a day > and a half by spraying a CS mist into the air and moving my open eye into > that mist a few times a day. > Ken>>>>>> > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected]
