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In a message dated 2/24/2007 10:01:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Bottom line: Boil yourself a nice paleo egg, this gets your body's own
immune response to the area and will hopefully cure it like a caveman might
have!
Thank you so much for the tip -- next time I get this I'll sure try the egg
-- especially if it's on the upper lid. One misunderstanding I think you may
have -- perhaps I wasn't clear enough -- my red "bumb "was not on the upper
lid -- it was on the lower lid area right around the lash line and a bit of
redness on the normally white "shelf" area righ above the lashes. Update --
rather than wait until Sunday to have another serving of liver -- I made a 5 oz
serving the very next day after my first liver serving -- made it extra rare.
By the next morning, my lower lid looked virtually normal again. No pain, no
swelling and my husband can't distinguish it from the other eye. I can still
see a faint redness -- but no pain. I also went to a steam bath for 10 minutes
yestereday and will do the same today. I had no liver yesterday but this
morning -- my eye looks about 98% normal. I'm going to the steambath again
today. Some alternative/complementary physicians believe that styes can signal
vitamin A deficiency -- I have no idea whether or not you'll find peer reviewed
published studies. In any event, Vitamin A is certainly protective against
infections -- so at the very least, I figured it couldn't hurt and may help
during my trial "do nothing -- or rather, do no antibiotic" phase. I am also being
vigilant about cleaning lids and lower lash line. So far, so good. Another
clarification -- I didn't mean to imply that I would "just do nothing" forever
if eye worsened. I just wanted to try other means before resorting to
automatic antibiotics because this was not a severe problem ie something like iritis
or an eye infection where I would absolutely use conventional medication
recommended ASAP. But thank you again for the egg tip -- when the doc mentioned
heat/compresses being good -- I wondered how to keep a wet cloth hot, warm --
they get clammy pretty darn fast -- so this egg tip is really wonderful. Thank
you again.
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