Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Place a clean, hand-warm, damp cloth on the closed eye for five to ten minutes, three to four times a day; then gently stroke the lid.
Warmth liquefies the thickened secretion of the lid glands so it can drain.
A hard, painless lump in the lid that stays for weeks is something else and needs an eye assessment.
Never squeeze. With redness spreading to the cheek or around the eye, fever or worsening vision see a doctor at once.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.