Stye guide
This guide is for a simple eyelid bump or stye, not for major eye swelling, fever, vision changes, or an infection spreading around the eye.
Start online
A simple stye can sometimes be handled online when the swelling is limited to the eyelid and there are no signs of deeper infection or eye involvement.
If treatment is appropriate, your physician can send a non-controlled prescription to your pharmacy and provide portal instructions for the next step.
Quick facts
Common symptoms
May fit online care
Look for another care setting
What to have ready
What happens next
Start the request on the website, answer a few questions to check that this visit fits you, and choose how fast you want an answer (the response window). If your concern still fits this service, a physician reviews it and sends you a secure update after you sign in. When appropriate, non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy, and a basic work or school note can be included at physician discretion.
Your physician
Every visit is personally reviewed by Ankur Fadia, MD. He is board-certified, has extra training in heart care (a cardiology fellowship), and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical honor society. He is licensed in Virginia and West Virginia, and your care is never handed off to someone else.
No. Some mild styes improve with warm compresses alone, but online review can help decide whether medicine or in-person care makes more sense.
Get seen in person if your vision changes, you have a fever, the swelling spreads around the eye, it hurts to move your eye, or the eye itself seems involved (affected).
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Questions about your treatment, prescription, or pharmacy?
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