Barley is one of the most unpleasant eye diseases that can occur in a person of any age. In most cases, this disease does not require complicated special treatment and only takes a few days. To eliminate her unpleasant symptoms most often use special eye ointments. So that you can also apply them, let's see what the features of these tools are, and how to use them correctly.
Content
- 1Application area
- 2Features of preparations
- 3List
- 4Recommendations for use
- 5Video
- 6conclusions
Application area
Ointments from barley are not recommended in all clinical cases.Indications for their use can be:
- the appearance of severe edema of the eyelid, accompanied by painful sensations;
- increased tears in the affected eye;
- a constant sense of foreign body in the patient's eye;
- the spread of pustules to the entire eyelid.
Barley is divided into internal, called meibomite, and external, called gordoleumom.
Usually, the symptoms presented make themselves felt on day 2-3 of the disease, but not immediately after the formation of barley. It is for this reason that in the first days of the disease the presented drugs are not used. However, it is in the patient's best interest to contact the doctors in the first 24 hours in order to find out what means can be used and in what dosage.
Features of preparations
Ointments for eyes from barley are preparations of local action.As a rule, such drugs are referred to a group of antiseptics, anti-inflammatory drugs or antibiotics.They fight with infection, and also remove various symptoms of the disease, including itching, pain, flushing of the mucosa.Ointments are used in ophthalmology rather actively, as they provide a longer-lasting effect on the infection site, rather than the usual drops from barley on the eye. In addition, for many patients they are easier to use.
Presented drugs can be used for various types of disease. In order for them to give the best effect, you just need to correctly choose the group of drugs and dosage. An experienced doctor can help you in this matter.
List
To treat barley on the eye apply a variety of popular drugs.Among them are:
- Antibiotics. This group includes a popular tetracycline ointment, erythromycin, sintomycin ointment, and also their close analogues. What specifically apply, see this article.
- Anti-inflammatory drugs.The most popular in this group is hydrocortisone, a corticosteroid agent used for bacterial forms of the disease.
- Antiseptic agents that prevent the spread of infection.These drugs include ichthyol ointment, Vishnevsky ointment, and analogues of these drugs. Tetracycline ointment is also included in this list.
- Antiviral drugs.Applied in cases where the disease is viral. Among these drugs, Acyclovir can rightly be attributed.
To apply the drugs, it is extremely important to know what kind of nature your disease has: fungal, viral or bacterial. Incorrect use of these drugs, which is especially common in self-treatment of diseases, can lead to secondary infection and various side effects.
Recommendations for use
Most ointments from barley are recommended to be placed under the eyelid 2-3 times a day.The amount of ointment used for one such bookmark is determined by the recommendation of your treating doctor, on average, it is 1 cm of the remedy. The preparation is administered in this way:
- For the beginning the patient needs to wash his hands well and prepare everything necessary for the use of the drug: a mirror, a clean table, cotton wheels and sticks.
- Then it will be necessary to apply the amount of ointment indicated in the dosage to the finger, pull the lower eyelid and gently place the ointment on the mucous membrane. Repeat this manipulation will be necessary and with the second eye.
- If you notice that the ointment has fallen unevenly on the mucosa, you can fix it with a clean cotton swab.
Some funds are also recommended for laying under the bandage. For questions about this use of medications, consult your doctor.
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The term of treatment by the type of medication presented is usually 7-10 days, but can be revised ophthalmologist, depending on the indications and effectiveness of the drug in each individual the case.
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.Like any other medications, ointments for the eyes have their own requirements for use.Patients who administer treatment for such drugs should pay special attention to the following rules for their use:
- You can only use the medication prescribed by your doctor.It should be remembered that the unauthorized use of the medicine can turn for you by various allergic reactions (if its composition did not suit you), the transition of the disease into a chronic form, also other sad consequences. That is why such treatment should be avoided.
- It is worth paying special attention to contraindications to taking this or that remedy.Depending on the type of drug, such contraindications can be: individual sensitivity, pregnancy and lactation period, as well as some other factors.
- During the treatment, you can not use contact lenses.They are recommended to be replaced after full recovery.
- Apply any medication is strictly according to the instructions.Otherwise, you also run the risk of encountering various side effects from such treatment.
- Do not use cosmetic products during illness.This applies to shadows, pencils, mascara. It must be remembered that the infection can persist on such means that in the future it will provoke a repeated infection of the patient with the same pathogen.
- All manipulations with ointment should be done only with clean hands.Otherwise, you risk infecting the mucosa.
- It should be remembered that the use of active agents for the treatment of barley can provoke a short-term vision impairment.It is for this reason that it is not recommended immediately after their introduction to sit behind the wheel or perform any other work that requires you to be highly concentrated.
- Even if barley appears only on one eye, you need to process ointment for both centuries.So you warn the infection of the second eye's mucosa.
- If you use not only ophthalmic ointment, but also special drops, they should be applied with an interruption per hour.Otherwise, these substances can enter into a reaction between themselves, which is also fraught with the emergence of various side effects.
Also, remember that any ointment should not be used for more than 2 weeks. If she did not give you the right effect during this time, you should consult a doctor and just replace the drug with another one that is more effective in your case. If you continue the treatment with the same remedy, the causative agents of the disease may develop resistance to this drug.
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conclusions
As you can see, getting rid of barley with special eye ointments is not difficult. To do this, it is enough to consult a doctor at the first symptoms of this disease, find the right remedy for you and regularly use it according to the instructions. So in a few days you can completely get rid of the disease without the risk of its recurrence.
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