Can I wear contact lenses if I have a stye

Patients with styes should stop wearing contact lenses to prevent their eyes from being hurt again. They should close their eyes and rest for a while. They should ensure that they get enough sleep every day and not stay up late often, as doing so will only make the sty worse. They can also be treated with acupuncture, but they must go to a professional hospital for acupuncture to avoid damaging their eyes during the process.

Tuyang, a disease name in Traditional Chinese Medicine, is an eye disease.

The main symptoms are redness, swelling, heat and pain at the edge of the eyelid or inside or outside, and small sores and boils shaped like wheat grains.

Current disease evidence. Commonly known as stealing needles. Stye usually occurs in one eye, occasionally in both eyes at the same time or repeatedly and alternately. Most patients will develop suppuration after a few days, and the swelling and pain will subside and the patient will recover. Stye is mostly caused by wind-heat toxic evil, which accumulates in the eyelids; or by eating too much spicy and greasy food, which causes heat and toxicity to accumulate in the spleen and stomach and attack the eyes. Common syndromes include:

① Stye caused by wind-heat ascending. Symptoms include itching, pain and discomfort in the eyelids at first, which gradually become red and swollen, with wheat-grain-sized nodules and tenderness at the eyelid margins, accompanied by headache, sore throat, red tongue with a thin white coating, and a floating and rapid pulse. The treatment should be to dispel wind and clear heat, and the prescription used can be Yinqiao Powder, etc.

② Stye caused by heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach. Symptoms include redness and swelling of the eyelids, hard and painful eyelid margins, gray-yellow pus spots on the new eyelids, swelling and pain in front of the ears, fever and constipation, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse. The treatment should be to clear away heat and detoxify, and the prescription used can be Qingpi San, etc.

For external treatment at the initial stage, you can apply golden ointment externally.

Conjunctivitis is mostly transmitted through contact, so it is recommended to wash hands frequently and avoid rubbing the eyes at will. It is recommended to wash your face with running water, and towels, handkerchiefs and other items should be kept separate from others and cleaned and disinfected frequently. Certain isolation measures should be taken for patients with infectious conjunctivitis, and they are not allowed to swim in public swimming areas. If conjunctivitis develops in one eye, the patient must be advised to protect the healthy eye from infection. Those who work in windy, dusty, and smoky environments should improve their environment and wear protective glasses to prevent conjunctivitis.

First, a preliminary judgment can be made based on the patient's disease course and clinical manifestations. For example, infectious conjunctivitis usually occurs in both eyes and may affect family members; most acute viral conjunctivitis first occurs in one eye and then the other eye; trachoma lesions are mainly on the upper eyelid; while acute follicular conjunctivitis caused by viruses is mainly on the lower eyelid; the catarrhal symptoms of bacterial conjunctivitis are more obvious; inflammation caused by gonococci results in a large amount of purulent secretions; these lesion characteristics are all helpful for diagnosis.