What Really Causes Styes and How to Get Rid of Them Fast

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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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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0:00.0	This video is for people with stys that don't necessarily want to take the steroid injection or
0:06.6	have it lanced or don't want to go on an antibiotic. I'm going to give you another solution,
0:11.7	which I think is pretty scientific. And when we're talking about science, we're talking about the
0:15.5	best theory. And there's not a lot of data on this stys. But I did find some really interesting
0:21.4	information that will lead us to, I think, the best alternative solution. What is a stys?
0:28.4	Well, it's this little pimple or pustule on your eyelid, usually involving a sebaceous gland.
0:35.2	sebaceous glands are the oil glands. So apparently this gland is plugged up. It's not draining
0:41.4	and it involves an infection and it's inflamed. It's red. It's irritating. And many times people
0:47.2	just let it go. And within seven days, it goes away. But what about these stys that keep coming
0:51.7	back over and over and over? What's really behind this problem? And how can we get rid of it once
0:56.7	in for all? So we want to ask some really important questions. What blocks a sebaceous gland?
1:02.6	Why is this bacteria involved? Usually the staff bacteria in this location of your eyelid and not
1:10.4	other places. And I know there's not a lot of information about this topic. But what do we know
1:15.4	about the sebaceous gland? What do we know about cysts? What do we know about this staff infection?
1:21.6	One of the things that we know is that diabetics have a much higher incidence of stys.
1:28.2	They also have a much higher incidence of staff infections, as well as cystic acne,
1:34.0	which is similar to this sti problem, but on the face, not on the eyelid. It's also interesting
1:40.4	that there's a much higher incidence of boils and cysts with diabetics as well. So this is what
1:47.5	I found. Sometimes the treatments involved what's called retinoids. It's a type of vitamin A. And we
1:55.3	do know there is this synthetic vitamin A medication used for cystic acne called acutane. But that has
2:03.1	some major side effects. But anyway, there's some interesting information on the relationship between
2:07.6	vitamin A and stys. But if we look at one very interesting thing that can occur with a vitamin A
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