Styes And Chalazions

Introduction- Styes and chalazions have been a topic of personal interest to me since the day I woke up and discovered a bump on my eyelid. The unnerving experience led to visits with my optometrist and a referral to an ophthalmologist and a need to know more about a condition I knew relatively nothing about. In my case, the bump on my eye was a chalazion, which led to confusion on what the difference was from my self-diagnosed stye. Styes and chalazions are in many ways similar, particularly in treatment, but differ in ways such as cause and location.
Paragraph one- what is a stye The first noticeable difference between a stye and chalazion is what causes each. A stye in an infection of small glands in eyelids usually caused by Staphylococcal