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Suggest treatment for heat boil on eyelid margin

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Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2015
Question: Today I found a heat boil down to eyelash, my left eye swellen out because of this.

kindly suggest some medicine.
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Answered by Dr. N. K. Misra (6 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Antibiotics

Detailed Answer:
My dear,
Thanks for sending your query to us.
This basically lid margin infection. What you need to do is hot compress twice a day for 5 minutes. Oral antibiotic,preferably Doxycycline100 mg teice a day and anti infllatory like ibuprofen and paracetamol combination twice a day after meals should be continued for 4 days.
Any further query in this regard please do vet back to me.
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Suggest treatment for heat boil on eyelid margin

Brief Answer: Antibiotics Detailed Answer: My dear, Thanks for sending your query to us. This basically lid margin infection. What you need to do is hot compress twice a day for 5 minutes. Oral antibiotic,preferably Doxycycline100 mg teice a day and anti infllatory like ibuprofen and paracetamol combination twice a day after meals should be continued for 4 days. Any further query in this regard please do vet back to me.