Originally posted by Miss Sile

Originally posted by wiser3
Have heard and read about this before and I do believe that it works.

I remember, as a child, being told that putting a drop of wee on stye would remove it and lo and behold it did!

S&F for having the courage not only to try this but to post it here.

Ignore the ridicule that will no doubt be aimed your way.

There are none so blind as those that will not see!

I can second that. Years ago I used to get styes quite often. They were horrible, many times requiring medical intervention. Drops, creams, hot, wet washcloths only helped minimally, usually required lancing by a dr. but I hated that and would perform one eyed surgery on myself, looking in the mirror, trying to puncture the stye with a lancet, then squeezing the bloody pus out. No matter what I did I couldn't prevent the styes. One day when I could see and feel a new one forming I remembered a sentence I had read in an old folk remedy book about putting a drop of urine on a stye, that was basically all it said, no reason on why it would help or anything. I thought ”what the heck” and took a cotton swab,.....collected....touched the swab to the stye, it almost immediately stopped itching. In a few hours it was hardly noticeable, when I woke up the next day it was gone. I didn't fully believe that the urine had done it though. Next time I started to get one, I didn't apply any, went back to my old ways that didn't work. After it was full size and hideous looking, I thought I might as well try again. I was certain it wouldn't do much but stop the itch, it was big, red and hindered my sight. I applied it a couple times a day and it was like magic how it just shrunk rapidly down, redness went away and itching. I don't get styes now days, but I would do that remedy again in a heartbeat if I ever did.

edit on 4/4/2012 by Miss Sile because: typo