Are scars from stye surgery serious?

Stye is a common skin disease. It does not cause much harm in itself, but it seriously affects the appearance, so people who love beauty have to remove it. Stye surgery is very simple and generally does not leave any scars. Patients can rest assured about the treatment without having to worry about aesthetic issues.

1. Will stye surgery leave scars?

There will generally be no scars left after stye incision and drainage, so don't be too nervous or worried. If it is an external stye, an incision is usually made along the skin grain on the surface of the abscess to drain the pus thoroughly, and generally no scars will be left.

2. Causes

There are two kinds of glands on the eyelids. The sebaceous glands at the root of the eyelashes open into the hair follicles. The meibomian glands are buried in the tarsal plates near the conjunctiva and open into the eyelid margins. Stye is an acute suppurative inflammation of these two glands. The bacteria that cause styes are mostly Staphylococcus aureus.

3. Clinical manifestations

1. Localized redness, swelling, heat and pain on the eyelid skin, and edema of the adjacent conjunctiva.

2. When pus accumulates locally, yellow pus heads appear. External hordeolum occurs in the sebaceous glands at the root of the eyelashes and manifests itself on the skin surface; internal hordeolum occurs in the meibomian glands and manifests itself on the conjunctival surface. After rupture and drainage of pus, the pain will be relieved and the redness and swelling will subside.

3. Severe cases are accompanied by enlarged and tender preauricular and submandibular lymph nodes, general chills, fever, etc.

IV. Treatment

1. Early hot compress or magnetic therapy

Promote infiltration absorption or rapid suppuration of nodules.

2. Surgical incision

When the inflammation is under control and pus accumulates to form a fluctuating feeling, it can be drained by incision, and the necrotic or granulation tissue can be properly cleaned. Depending on the situation, placement of a drainage strip can be considered. After the inflammation subsides, if there is still residual granulation tissue or nodules left, surgical removal can be performed again. However, it should be noted that the skin incision of the external hordeolum should be parallel to the eyelid margin, and the conjunctival incision of the internal hordeolum should be perpendicular to the eyelid margin. Avoid inappropriate squeezing to prevent the inflammation from spreading into the orbit and cranium, causing orbital cellulitis, cavernous sinus phlebitis, meningitis and abscess, which may be life-threatening.

3. For stubborn and recurrent cases

Autoimmune therapy is available. Patients with systemic fever and swollen preauricular and submandibular lymph nodes can be treated with antibiotics.