Swollen upper eyelid problems

lutze · Newbie Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 16

I am 34 year old female.
For the last three days I’ve had a swollen eye. The eyeball itself isn’t red or inflamed but the eyelid is swollen. It looks a bit strange because it seams like I'm always sleepy.
I thought it would pass by it self but it didn’t – symptoms are just getting worse day y day.
I contacted my general practitioner and he prescribed me some antibiotic crème called Chloramphenicol.
I used it but it didn’t relieve my symptoms. My upper eyelid is constantly swollen and was wondering what could be the cause?
Any advices on this subject?

bichsel · Newbie Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 13

Well you probably understand that your doctor thought it was some bacterial infection because Chloramphenicol is one of the best antibiotic based drugs for eye infections.
If your drug didn’t help than you must consider that you maybe suffer from some viral infection like conjunctivitis for example.
Several different viruses can cause conjunctivitis.
Some, such as enteroviruses and adenoviruses, can spread rapidly and cause conjunctivitis while others primarily cause skin infections (molluscum contagiosum, herpes infection), and the eye can be infected if the eyelids are involved.
As you probably know-there is no specific treatment for viral conjunctivitis, and the condition gets better on its own.
Antibiotic eye drops prevent secondary infection from bacteria.
So, your doctor did a right thing. You should be a little more patient because your symptoms will probably disappear in a week.

katj · Newbie Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

this use to happen to me a lot when I wore my contacts often or when i swam a lot, eventually though the skin under my eyelid would peel off. It looked really gross and was extremely uncomfortable but then after the thing came out i felt so much better. I showed my boyfriend once and he said he'd never seen anything like it before. You should lift up your eyelid and see if you have a bump of skin or something that looks like a slimy layer of skin and try to pull it out.

jblake1084 · Newbie Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

My eyelid just started swelling up today. I am guessing that the cause is when my friend accidentally dropped a small piece of plastic into my eye (from my dog's chewtoy). I rinsed it out, the next day or two it was slightly painful, nothing unbearable. This morning it was swollen on the side the plastic had been dropped into. Should I go to a doctor to get something to treat it immediately, or should I try visine for a day or two first?

LAgettingfit · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 6

It could be a Sty (stye)
It could be an ingrown eyelash
It could be bacteria that has caused the pore to clog up and oil build up within
It could be a Chalazion.

Google Sty or Chalazion for more info.

If you use oily eye makeup remover, it's probably a closed pore with oil building up and can not get out. Be sure next time after you use the make up remover to use a soap and warm water so it doesnt clog another pore.

The BEST way to know for sure what it is, would be to see an OPTHAMOLOGIST (they are the ONLY ones that can do surgery, except for a plastic surgeon....do NOT waste time or money going to an optometrist or a regular doctor.

Tobrex can be applied and may help. But in many cases surgery is necessary, although you could have it re-occur so you really need to be careful about washing your eyelids more carefully OR if you sweat alot to wash well as soon as you can. Keep dirty fingers off your eye lids. Wash your hands often with anti bacterial soap.

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