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.