The Stye

As I posted before, Nolan has been battling several styes off and on for the past month on his left eyelids (both top and bottom).  At first the styes appeared as bumps and then went away.  The last two styes became so big he could not even open his eye.  Poor baby!

I took a picture to prove how big it was!

Both Nolan's pediatrician and everything I researched online said, "to let the stye pop on its own" and to "apply warm compresses to help the stye come to a head."  We did both at home.  Well, I was tired of Nolan having a droopy eyelid and people looking at me like I beat my child when I took him somewhere, so I decided to pop the stye at home.

Nolan had been taking antibiotics for about 5 days, so I felt good about the chances of a secondary infection not happening.  I felt barbaric in the way I held Nolan down on the ground and scraped the head of the pimple off, but as soon as I did it Nolan must have felt some relief.  There was a lot of blood and pus, but after Nolan calmed down he felt fine.  Bill even brought Nolan some powdered donuts home to make him happy!!

After popping the stye on the upper eyelid, another one formed on the lower eyelid a few days later.  This stye never became as big as the stye on the upper eyelid, but I did have to pop it as well.  He still has a little redness and God's band-aid (Bill's wording for a scab) on the lower lid, but he is slowly recovering.

Hopefully this stye business doesn't start to make a regular appearance with Nolan.  At least now I can see his big brown eyes again!!