The frustrating, itchy, and blurry pain in the eye that are styes! Embarrassment one feels, when someone looks at you right in the face and they don't see you! The strict regimen you demand of yourself, to provide a perfect sterile field for prevention or therapeutic effects. Which at times can lead to very harsh and self abuse over, why you can't remember to not touch your EYES! I have seen dozens of videos and read just as many blogs, all with great ideas and information about hygiene and prevention. The use of products and techniques all wonderful stuff! Great job to everybody trying to help out on that. After hearing all these different personalities and approaches something still felt sideways about the whole issue...
So my journey with styes started three and a half years ago after my first son was born. It was a tough time financially, mentally, and emotionally. Things like nutrition and emotional stress were some main reasons why I believed styes were plaguing my days. Information brought to my attention years before about how women were susceptible to styes from the use of make-up for various reason (which I will outline later.) Made my wife took the brunt of some blaming [she being a Masterful Special Effects Make-Up Artist ( IG: @lina_make_u)], blaming her, knowing she always cleans her tools/brushes. I never had styes before ever! Out of nowhere at the age of 28 I had styes for three years straight... Mind you, I was very much a street kid, but more then anything I was always looking for a sport to play. Now from the ages 12-17 basketball was religion for me everyday I bounced my nasty sweaty basketball to the courts and played for hours. I played team football from 7-18 years old. I did not hesitate to rub/wipe my eyes without cleaning them first. NEVER SAW A TRACE OF A STYE! You can imagine now some of my skepticism when it came to eye hygiene for stye prevention.
After trying the approaches that I learned were the best, considering my lifestyle and what I would allow to interact with my body. Every success lead back to frustrations. Any interaction with dirt or dust would trigger and grow a new stye. I began to rule out other possibilities. I found one that made absolute perfect sense and when I made the adjustment, had instant results and since then, left my stye woes where they belong... in the past!
So your stye problem... (Thank you for allowing me to inform you), is an oral hygiene issue! Yes one of the things I had to look into was oral hygiene. Memories of the talent shows I seen. Where some contestant will hold milk in their mouth and make the milk come out of their eye's or tear ducts. About two years prior, I heard about a dentist/author named Weston Price who studied rural indigenous tribes with amazing oral hygiene attributed to their diets. I began an experiment in an attempt to intensify my dream-state and sleep by limiting the amount times I brushed my teeth. For reasons, specific to chemicals in water and a variety of toothpaste. I don't just research I put it to test. The Nasolacrimal Duct is the highway from your pharynx (the space that connects your nose and mouth). So immediately I began flossing and brushing my teeth everyday and without fail every night. The first couple weeks had huge results and by the end of the month the styes I had were gone and the most of the chalazion with the exception of a couple large ones had vanished (the large ones diminished in size significantly.) If you have styes and also every once in awhile I have minor ear ache or discomfort this will ring even more true for you! The Eustachian tube is the highway from you pharynx (throat) to your eardrum.
Styes
Styes known info:
Stye is caused by bacteria called staphylococcal.
One of the most common causes of food poisoning is staph bacteria.
Eye Hygiene is huge contributor proponent of styes, didn’t seem to be the root for me.
Women Prone
Make-up application has tendency to clog these pores prolongation of and applied make-up and mascara, eye liner, etc.
Sharing of brushes and make-up tools can cause cross contamination of bacterial infection.
Hydration H20
Emotional Trigger
Visual Trauma, Unwillingness to accept what might be going on in life or see it happen.
Pharynx Connection:
Anatomy: Oral, Nasal, Ocular, Tympanic, Lymph nodes
Cranial Nerves X and IX share the same pathways with to transmit signal to the medulla;
Genitourinary
Chemoreceptors
Autonomic Nervous System of The Heart
Nasolacrimal Duct – Connects tear ducts directly to empty space behind the nose.
Eustachian tube bridge the Eardrum directly to the throat.
Weston Price, DDS, author “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”
The tears in our eyes are created by a gland about the size and shape of an almond, which lies just behind the outer edge of the eyebrow. Protected by bone, the lacrimal gland secretes tears into the eye through about a dozen ducts located nearby. Without some sort of drain, the overflow would leave us weeping harder than Richard Simmons watching Titanic. A set of drainage holes are located above and below the little pink spot best known for production of "eye goop" at the inner corner of the eye. Your tears drain through these holes into a tube, called the nasolacrimal duct, which leads directly into the empty space behind the nose.
References
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/styes.htm
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/staph-infections/symptoms-causes/dxc-20322063
http://www.curetoothdecay.com/Dentistry/weston_price_dentist.htm
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1923077-overview
http://www.edrabin.com/squirting-out-your-tearducts.html