A pimple on your eyelid usually isn't acne — it's probably a stye, chalazion, or xanthelasma. A stye is a round, red bump that can be treated with a warm compress to drain the pus. A chalazion is ...

Why Has Her Diagnosis Changed? It is likely that this patient's external hordeolum developed into a chalazion after the initial inflammation resolved. Internal hordeola may also eventually develop ...

If you've ever had a mysterious pimple on your eyelid, you know that it's basically impossible to focus on anything else. And even though it seems like the world's most inconveniently placed pimple, ...

North Coast Eye Care A stye (hordeolum) is essentially a clogged oil gland in the lid. It occurs when one or multiple oil glands at the edge of an eyelid becomes infected with staph bacteria that ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Are oral antibiotics ever prescribed to treat chalazions in addition to eye drops and ointment? I have had two this year for, seemingly, no reason. They were treated with tobramycin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As a common presentation in the optometry practice, chalazion is a chronic, granulomatous lid lesion often ...

The differential diagnosis for a patient with this presentation should include both a hordeolum and a chalazion. The key to distinguishing these two common lid lesions is the presence of pain, which ...