Hey guys you're probably here because you want to know all about those styes
why we get them, how to get rid of them, and most importantly
how can you prevent them from coming back well i'm going to answer all of
those questions along with many other questions in this
week's responding to your comments where we look at fun questions we look
at science-based questions but most importantly
we always look at the evidence so what are we waiting for let's do this
poco watching this video with one eye could you please do a video on stars and
their treatment poco thank you for your comment i hope you
are much better now and you've recovered this comment is from the blepharitis
video that i did a while ago of course i can do a video on styes it
might be a little late for you but you never know might be the right
time as well and i hope it helps you i hope it helps anyone was watching and
at the end of this video you guys are all going to become i sty
pros okay so first let's begin with a little bit of background
because this is going to help us when we start to discuss treatments
so size they usually go on their own within about a week or two
they can be very painful unfortunately but the good news is
they're not usually a sign of anything serious for you to be worried about
but the bad news is unfortunately they don't look very nice either
so the next question is how do you know if it's a stye well the style is a
localized infection so it's a small painful lump on or
inside the eyelid or around the eye now it may also be
swollen it may also be red and it may be filled with a yellow puss
like pimple and sometimes your eye may be red and it
may be watery but please remember your vision should not be affected so
please do remember that now another good way to see if it's the
style or not is by looking at images these can be very helpful for eye
conditions so what i will do is i'll leave a link to the nhs page in
the description below they've got loads of great images on
there so you can have a look at it if you want
for more information and i'd highly recommend actually that everyone does
check it out now please remember that stars only
usually affect one eye but they can sometimes affect both eyes
also it's probably not likely to be a stye
if your eyelid has no lump and for example
your eye or eyelid is swollen red and watery it's more likely to be
something like conjunctivitis or blepharitis and lastly if the lump on
your eyelid is hard and not very painful then it's probably more likely to be a
kalasi now fear not i'm going to leave loads more
information loads more links in the description below
about all of these different conditions so if you want to find out more
information please read up on them but what i would
highly recommend is you always speak to a healthcare professional first
so they can check your symptoms so they can ask you questions and come up with a
diagnosis of what's going on exactly now let's
move on to how to treat the stein now when patients have a stye the first
thing that i recommend them to do is a hot compress because one it's
really easy to do and two you don't need to buy anything
you've already got everything at home probably that you need and what it's
going to do is it's going to help reduce the swelling
and it's going to help the sky heal faster now you may be thinking to
yourself well how do i do this hot compress well don't
worry abraham the pharmacist has always got you covered
very easy to do all you need to do is get a clean cloth
or a clean flannel anything like that rinse it in some hot water
and give it a good rinse out so it's not too wet and place it on the eye the
affected eye close your eye and place it on the eye
for about five to ten minutes you need to hold it there very gently
that's really important that you're not pressing and pushing too hard on the
area now i'd recommend that you do this three
to four times a day and please make sure that the water is
not super hot you don't want to scold yourself or burn
yourself just make sure it's a comfortable hot temperature
that you're fine with also please remember when you have this stye
don't wear contact lenses and don't wear any makeup around the eye
until the star is healed now eventually after doing the hot compress it's going
to draw the puss to the head of the sky and eventually this will pop which is
fine but please make sure that you're not tempted
to try and pop it yourself so don't squeeze it or play about with it
because all you're going to end up doing is damaging the delicate skin
around the eyelid which you don't want to do and also you could potentially
push and spread the infection further and deeper into the tissue
so that's the hot compress technique as i said it's very simple and it should be
very easy to do but if you're still in a bit of pain
then painkillers can be helpful for this like paracetamol or ibuprofen
but please like i always say please speak to your healthcare professional
first so they can make sure that it's safe and
suitable to take that medication and always read the information leave
that that comes with the medicine again to check that you are safe and suitable
to take that medicine so now that we've discussed treatments
let's move on to preventative tips to prevent the star coming from the first
place but please remember if you do suffer from blepharitis or
long-term blepharitis then you are more prone
to getting styes in the first place so it's super important if you have
blepharitis that you maintain good eyelid hygiene
and i discuss and talk all about this in the blepharitis video
where this comment has actually first come from
so i will leave a link to it up here and in the description below if you're
interested check it out so moving on to
preventative tips tip number one if you wear makeup or eye makeup please
make sure you remove it all before going to bed and also with
eye makeup please change it every six months at a
minimum tip number two please do not share
towels flannels face cloths anything that's
gonna touch your face and eyes okay you shouldn't be sharing any of that
have separate ones for yourself and anyone else who lives in the same
household tip number three make sure you wash your hands often and
also avoid touching your eyes or rubbing your
eyes if you haven't washed your hands basically whenever you're gonna touch
your eyes wash them hands especially if you wear contact lenses whenever you
remove them or put them in make sure you're washing those hands
properly thank you for the comment poco i really hope this video helps you
and anyone who's watching and like i said at the start of the video
styles are usually nothing to worry about they're usually nothing serious
and they usually go away after a week or two
but please do remember this if your style is very painful
or it's very swollen or it doesn't get better after a few weeks
or it's affecting your vision so your vision is getting blurred or you have
visual disturbances then please make an appointment to speak
to your healthcare professional as soon as possible
once again thank you for the comment really hope these tips help and if you
have any of your own tips please leave a comment below too because
i'd love to read it and i'm sure everyone watching this video would too
now let's move on to the next comment driving with biscuits
great content and entertaining i am however jealous of those amazing
cheekbones and natural highlight glow bradley
cooper give this man a shout out bro driving with biscuits thank you for your
comment this is from the how to boost your energy video
if any of you haven't seen that video it's a fantastic video
and in the video i think i talk about a pill a magic pill that's going to give
you energy and then i'll talk about exercise that
relates to exercise and i think i talk about bradley cooper and
limitless really enjoy that movie massive fan of brad the cooper as well
but thank you driving with biscuits thank you for your compliment about my
her cheekbones i've never really noticed about my cheekbones but
thank you and my natural highlighted glow but i can promise you that natural
highlighted glow is just my greasy sweaty skin from
filming in these warm clinic rooms because you guys don't know this because
you can't feel the temperature but the uk is cold but our surgery is
the warmest surgery i've ever been in whenever i come in these rooms
the radiators are always on full blast a lot of the windows unfortunately don't
open so it's so hot in here and uh so that natural glow is you know
as a result of excessive sweating from the heat um
thank you for calling again bradley cooper i told you mate
i said to you in the last video i said give me a shout out if you want me to
come and help you out in your next movie you know i'm more than happy to
come and be the pharmacist or something like that you know
in a part that you need me but i still haven't heard back from you
and you know it really did upset me but thanks for the comment
let's move on stop you're annoying by the way that's the username
it's not the comment i never brush my teeth and your channel has encouraged me
to start brushing my teeth i've got gum disease minor disease but
it's painful for me to brush every day so like reply if you
are here because you don't brush stop your annoying thank you for the
comment i'm really struggling to say your username because i just
i just feel really rude saying it obviously here in the uk
we are very polite and you know we always like to be respectful to one
another but thank you for your comment this is from the how to brush your teeth
video featuring dr airson a good friend of mine who's also
a dentist and i'm really glad that the video could
help you and at least you're now brushing your
teeth please everyone brush your teeth watch the video there's
some really useful tips on there that a lot of people
don't know about you know for example a lot of people rinse their mouth out with
water straight after brushing their teeth
or they use a mouthwash straight after brushing their teeth and a lot of these
things shouldn't be done and i feel like we
need to make more people aware of these kinds of things
and a lot of people comment saying that they didn't know a lot of these things
that and i imagine it's also because a lot of the times i think it's quite
difficult for a dentist to speak to a patient in a clinical setting
um because like usually here that they're all so busy as well and it's
difficult to give all this information because
it is a long video as well i think it's like 10 minutes long so if you imagine
every single patient getting all that information and also you have to
remember this if you give a patient information a
consultation they're only really going to remember one or two things
from that consultation this has been proven by the way i'm making this up
um so having it in a video giving people the option to rewind and watch stuff
again and go back to it whenever they need it
that my friends is the beauty of youtube and it's the beauty of what i do i guess
and that's one of the reasons why i love doing what i do so much
so thank you for your comment i'm glad my video helped you and i hope the gum
disease gets fixed sending awesome vibes trumbull research
lol plot twist employee comes around the
corner sir who are you why are you filming in our store
trouble research thank you for your comment this is from the how to treat
and prevent gout video you know that would be quite
funny if that happened that's from back in the days um back in
the days when i used to film in pharmacy and community pharmacy when
i used to work in community pharmacy as well
i no longer work in community pharmacy i only work in gp practice now
um in the medical practice but yeah it was always really difficult filming in
the in the community pharmacy setting
because there's so many people there they're all work they're all working as
well and they're all loud and there's always sound and telephone ringing and
everything and anyone who films videos on youtube
or does any filming knows that sound and people interrupting
and things like that is the worst thing for filming
because then you guys who are watching complain about the audio quality being
terrible and you not be able to hear me but yeah
it would be funny though if someone just came around
yo what are you doing here do you actually work here
but yeah that that wouldn't happen because i'm a real pharmacist
sending your awesome vibes let's move on to the next comment daniella harrison
totally new to nasal sprays and i was expecting to feel the same as when you
get water up your nose so i was reluctant to use it absolutely
not the case thank you for the instructions really
eased my worries and now i'm a new woman no more headaches from hay
fever daniella thank you for your comment this is from
how to use a nasal spray video and i am so glad that i can help you and
like i said before i said it many times actually on this on response to comments
i'm so happy that i can help people from youtube
by doing these videos you know the fact that i'm doing these videos
you guys are able to watch it you're able to seek advice from a healthcare
professional where i inform you of stuff makes you all more
aware of medical conditions or how to use a nasal spray or anything like that
and knowing when to seek medical advice as well so i'm empowering everyone with
this useful knowledge and daniella here well she's a new woman because of it and
that she now knows how to use the nasal spray properly now she could
have gone to a community pharmacist or a healthcare professional to ask them
but real realistically speaking one do they have the time to go through
everything in detail with them and two how much of that
are you gonna remember you know if even if i did a consultation with you right
now watching on how to use a nail spray i guarantee you at the end of it you're
not gonna remember everything because in person
it's very difficult to remember everything and to do in the right order
to do it nicely and clearly so that's why youtube's so great
that's why i love youtube so much because when i get these little comments
it really makes me happy and i'm just happy that i can help you
thank you for the comment shivankanamdev sir
may we know the skincare products that you use shivank
thank you for your comment this is from the housing shrink pause and how to get
rid of paul's video of course you can know you know i'm not
i don't hide this kind of stuff um but realistically i really don't
think i have like great skin quality or anything like that
but if you really want to know i use a daily moisturizer
which has a uva five-star protection and spf 30 in it every single day so i'm
using the sunscreen every day to help protect
my skin from sun damage and aging and it really really helps so
you know i've spoken about sunscreens before and how important they are
because unfortunately a lot of people don't really think about sunscreens much
they think oh sunscreens are just for when you go on holiday or
just for when you're out in the sun or on the beach or stuff like that but
realistically speaking we should all use a sunscreen
for our face and our neck and our lower neck over here if it's visible
to the sun or even if you live in a cloudy country like the uk where it's
cloudy and rainy most of the time those uv rays still go through the cloud
which means that your skin is still going to get damaged
by those rays which equals aging of the skin and just less you know
healthy skin so wear a sunscreen every day i've said
it in those videos before but if you're really interested in how
to buy a good sunscreen and how to know what to look out for when you go to a
chemist because buying expensive sunscreen doesn't necessarily mean that
you're buying the best sunscreen you need to know what to look out for
what ingredients to look out for and what information you need to see on the
bottle and i speak about all of this in a video
on how to pick the best sunscreen or something labeled like that
i will leave a link to it up here for you if you're interested check it out
thanks for the calling so it looks like we've run out of time again
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