
What are chalazions and styes?
Chalazions and styes are painful lumps on your eyelid. Chalazions and styes start out with similar symptoms and look a lot alike.
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A chalazion is a pimple caused by a blocked oil gland in your eyelid—it isn't infected
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A stye is a staph infection at the base of an eyelash
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Chalazions usually go away on their own in 2 to 8 weeks
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A stye usually breaks open after about 2 to 4 days, and then it goes away on its own
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Putting a hot compress on your eye may help a chalazion or stye go away faster
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Doctors sometimes have to let the pus out of a stye by making a small cut with a tiny scalpel blade