Discover the root cause of recurring styes and the best natural alternatives for a stye.
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0:00 Introduction: The best natural remedies for a stye
0:27 What is a stye?
0:45 What causes styes to come back?
1:47 Typical treatments for styes
2:05 Vitamin A deficiency and styes
4:02 Diabetes and styes
5:42 Vitamin D and styes
5:58 Zinc and styes
6:14 Vitamin A deficiency causes
7:08 The best sources of vitamin A
7:40 How to get rid of a stye naturally
9:55 Learn more about the Healthy Keto® diet!
Today, I want to share a few interesting natural alternatives for styes.
A stye is a little pimple or pustule on the eyelid, usually involving a sebaceous gland. The sebaceous glands are oil glands. If one of these glands becomes clogged, it can lead to a staph infection and inflammation. It typically causes a lot of redness and irritation.
In many cases, within seven days, the stye will go away. But, some people deal with recurring styes. People with diabetes have a much higher incidence of styes and staph infections.
Sometimes retinoids, a type of vitamin A, are used as a treatment for styes. There is an interesting relationship between vitamin A and styes.
One thing that can occur with a vitamin A deficiency is hyperkeratosis. Hyperkeratosis causes a roughened extra layer of skin tissue in the ducts of the sebaceous glands. This means that a vitamin A deficiency can cause the sebaceous glands to be clogged, leading to inflammation.
A certain study on humans showed a significant vitamin A deficiency in those who had styes vs. those who did not.
Vitamin A is also important for the immune system. A deficiency in vitamin A can increase the risk of infection. Diabetes and insulin resistance can also impair the immune system.
Vitamin D is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatories, and vitamin D deficiency is associated with many different eye problems. Vitamin D deficiency may increase the risk of both infections and styes.
Zinc is important for building up the immune system and reducing the recurrence of styes.
Top causes of vitamin A deficiency:
• A lack of the active form of vitamin A in the diet (retinol)
• Gut inflammation
• Liver issues
• Gallbladder issues
• Lack of bile
• Zinc deficiency
• Alcohol
• Antibiotics
Foods rich in vitamin A include:
• Beef liver
• Egg yolks
• Fish
• Cod liver oil
The best natural ways to help get rid of a stye and keep it from coming back:
1. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet
2. Take vitamin A and vitamin D (cod liver oil)
3. Take zinc (200 mg for one week, then back to normal amounts)
4. Rub a clove of garlic on the stye a few times a day without getting the garlic in your eye
5. Make green tea, then place the cooled green tea bag on your eyelid over the stye
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps increase your awareness of the best natural alternatives for styes. I’ll see you in the next video.
38 responses to “What Really Causes Styes and How to Get Rid of Them Fast”
Top causes of vitamin A deficiency:
• A lack of the active form of vitamin A in the diet (retinol)
• Gut inflammation
• Liver issues
• Gallbladder issues
• Lack of bile
• Zinc deficiency
• Alcohol
• Antibiotics
Foods rich in vitamin A include:
• Beef liver
• Egg yolks
• Fish
• Cod liver oil
The best natural ways to help get rid of a stye and keep it from coming back:
1. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet
2. Take vitamin A and vitamin D (cod liver oil)
3. Take zinc (200 mg for one week, then back to normal amounts)
4. Rub a clove of garlic on the stye a few times a day without getting the garlic in your eye
5. Make green tea, then place the cooled green tea bag on your eyelid over the stye
Thank you Dr Berg!!
Butter is also high in Vitamin A (Retinol)
I use coconut oil in my eye for all eye infections; it’s worked for me over the years I suppose the way garlic would and you don’t have to try to avoid your eye.
thank you Fidel
Obrigada, Fidel 🇧🇷
Thanks you’re my go to
Fantastic, clear un-fussy health advice once again. Much appreciated!…especially by someone like me who was “plagued” by irritating Styes in his youth. Just wish I’d known this stuff back in the day!
Same here! I remember one year I had a stye in _both eyes_ during finals week in college. As an engineering major failing electronics (yeah…I eventually switched to math, LOL), it was a particularly bad time! I’m 51 and I can still feel it 30 years later if I think about it!
the answer is usually keto(limit carbs and sugar) or fasting
@AllHim Withme Double Ouch!
I used to get them quite frequently after a couple of days and weeks of stress and poor sleep, it was literally one after the other at one point,
thanks for the advice!
Boric acid powder and warm compress
I’ve had more styes in the last year than in the previous 4 decades combined!! My ophthalmologist prescribes an antibacterial ointment along with warm compress, but says he has no answer for why the unusual repetition, outside of some unknown environmental cause. I’m going to take your advice, as I always do, and make sure my supplements are appropriate. I really appreciate this info, Dr Berg! 🌷😊
Did you have a diet change? I got styes for about six months after changing to keto diet. Believe it was oxalate dumping as a large, hard crystal emerged from one 😱
Coconut oil does the same thing as the prescription cream and isn’t petroleum-based.
@smooth pursuit Well now, that’s an interesting correlation. I’m mostly low carb, but not strictly Keto. Something to think about! Thanks! 😊
@AllHim Withme I hate prescriptions of any kind but felt it necessary for this ugly and painful condition! I use coconut oil regularly for many things, didn’t know it was safe that close to, or in my eye! I’ll check it out. Just ordered some retinol, too. Thank you! 😊
@Love, Leah YES! It’s on all the parent blogs about using coconut oil for pink eye, too
When I had a stye, my Doctor told me to bathe it with very warm water (not hot) twice a day to relieve the discomfort. And it worked.
Great. Thanks for sharing what helped you.
I’m pretty sure that the cause of my styes was poor hygiene in my youth. I think I used to get styes after going a day or two without showering. Also, I rode crowded public transportation in developing countries, grabbing the bars and handrails then touching my eyes. The prescribed remedy was some yellow/orange, mercury oxide something or other ointment that cleared them up within 48 to 72 hours. Oh… at that time I also smoked cigarettes and had a horrific diet of mostly rice, beans, bread, beer and coffee.
Yes, you’re right; that can cause an infection, BUT not without poor diet, poor sleep, or whatever else that weakened your immune system.
Styes can also be oxalate dumping. I went through several months of getting styes AFTER changing to keto diet, then it stopped. In one instance a large, hard crystal came out of the stye
I used to get them when I failed to remove my eye makeup overnight. The instant cure for me was green tea bags
Wow! My parents used to put garlic on our styes and they’d go away quite fast! I never knew why. We eye care folks don’t learn this in school!😅
Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
A few months ago I was getting styes constantly. I never realized it was connected to the eye lash serum I was using. The last stye I had was so bad that I went to the eye doctor- I refused all the medical treatment; steroids, injection, lancing… I went home and start doing warm compresses and taking 3 hot showers a day and massaging the eye… after about 10 days it started draining. Must be patient with the severe styes. Great topic!!!
Oxolates are a big reason people get styes. Look into that also..
I think using a cotton dipping with lukewarm salty water to wash it regularly during a day will help when it starts to grow before it is getting bigger. That also helps to relief a bit of irritation as well! 🙂
I had a lot in my teens and even 20’s. The issue was rubbing my eyes with unwashed hands and staying up late getting dry eyes. Dry eyes is also a gateway to virus infections. Perhaps hormones were responsible for clogging the follicles. Only remedy was waiting until they popped. Haven’t had any more in decades.
I started getting regular styes about 2 yrs ago on a regular basis. Thank you for this video ❤
Are you diabetic/pre – diabetic?
Right on time I’ve just developed one since last week. I’ve noticed they come when I use a certain squalane facial cleanser. It’s great for not stripping my skin but clogs my lids causing styes.
The Vitamin A deficiency must have been what I had when I was a child. I used to get styes all of the time. The ophthalmologist had me use hot water packs using a washcloth for like 10-15, 2-3 times a day to get them to drain. I had to have them lanced one time.
Thanks Dr. Berg. I did have three styes during the days of mandatory masking during the height of Covid. My eye doctor said he had never seen so many cases of styes in his career. He realized the masking was causing steam to rise up, and clog the pores. Since then, I’ve never had another.
At 53 i had my ever first sty, still lingering. Been taking cod liver oil for 2 weeks now. Thankyou Dr Berg.
Hi Dr.Berg, or for anyone reading this, got blood work done and everything looked good except one marker.
My fasting glucose came in at 60 (3.3). Keep in mind I was 20 hours fasted and had ate relatively low carb the day before as well before starting the fast.
Some places say 70-80 is the normal fasted range, other sources say 60-80, should I be concerned?
Have never felt like I was gonna pass out or felt dizzy while fasting, let me know your guys thoughts, thank you everyone 🙏🏽
Thank you so much Dr. Berg! That was for me. Really appreciate your work and ministry!