What to do when eyelids suddenly swell?

Eyelid swelling suddenly consider eyelid inflammation, the most common case is sty, sty refers to the eyelash hair follicle near the sebaceous glands or meibomian glands caused by acute suppurative inflammation. According to the location can be divided into two kinds of sty and sty, mainly due to meibomian gland blockage, complicated by local bacterial infection. Because the eyelid tissue is loose, so eyelid swelling after the onset is more obvious. Treatment is mainly considered with antibiotic eye drops 4 times a day, eye ointment 1 time a night, local hot towel hot compress 3 times a day, under normal circumstances about a week eyelid swelling will subside. If more than half a month eyelid swelling still can not obviously subside, will form a induration, called chalazion, need surgery.