stye/chalazion after rupture with picture

[albertsmom]

please help with any advice you can give.. my son (16 months) had a bump on his eye small at first then it grew, i read about it and saw that stye or chalazion everyone recommends warm compresses so we did that. i think it was chalazion because it lasted about a month then after the compresses it doubled in size in about 3 days. i got freaked out and it was the weekend so i took him into urgent care. they said it was a stye because it seemed to be coming to a head from the compresses and had a white area in the middle. they gave him antibiotic drops and a pink liquid antibiotic to drink 2x a day. after about 2 days on the antibiotics the skin over the stye started to peel off and it started leaking out like blood/pus but only a very small amount came out, not the amount i would assume was inside based off of the size. now a scab has formed over where the skin had peeled off but the scab is like yellow/green and its not flat. will it heal properly if theres still pus underneath the skin? i cant seem to find any pictures of styes post rupture so see what 'normal' is, so i included a picture of my sons eye. after the skin peeled i started putting a very small amount of neosporin on the open wound too with a qtip. ive been washing his hands and using hand sanitizer on him multiple times throughout the day. i just want to know i guess if this is the normal heeling process for this condition or if i should take him in again.,. the liquid antibiotics are about half way gone i have maybe 3-4 more days supply left. thank you so much.

[Sbe0321]

My daughter is going through the same thing. She's 2 and I've taken her to eye dr a couple times because it continued to get so much worse over the course of a week. He says it is a stye but it has ruptured. I have to basically torture her to allow me to apply a warm compress and massage it. Which I can't do very well because she is to the point of shaking she's so mad by this point. The dr gave me these cleaning clothes for her eye since it's starting to scab. He said the crustyness and dried blood need to be removed. Which anytime I use these clothes it removes her scab. My concern is how can it heal if I keep having to do this everyday?

[Sbe0321]

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Sbe0321
My daughter is going through the same thing. She is 2 and I have taken her to eye dr a couple times because it continued to get so much worse over the course of a week. He says it is a stye but it has ruptured. I have to basically torture her to allow me to apply a warm compress and massage it. Which I can't do very well because she is to the point of shaking she's so mad by this point. The dr gave me these cleaning clothes for her eye since it's starting to scab. He said the crustyness and dried blood need to be removed. Which anytime I use these clothes it removes her scab. My concern is how can it heal if I keep having to do this everyday?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Good work
JC MD

[albertsmom]

i put the bacitracin on it last night when he fell asleep and this morning the scab has totally changed from yellow green to a healthy looking dark red scab! that stuff works great and with only the 1 application i definitely recommend it. it was less than $3 at walmart :)

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

On behalf of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American's Eye MD's happy to help.

JCH MD

[albertsmom]

thank you so much im relieved to hear that this is not uncommon for chalazia. it is hard to see a wound like this such a sensitive area and feel helpless to improve his condition, but you have helped to set my mind at ease.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Yes that picture looks just like many people of all ages that every ophthalmologist sees.  We really dislike chalazia because everybody wants it to go away quickly and without much being done and it just doesn't work that way most of the time.

In the pediatric population you usually can't do incision and currettement or intralesional steroid injections.

JC MD

[albertsmom]

yes i read alot of previous questions thats why i decieded to ask about it on this particular site. thank you for your response. i will stop using the neosporin and ask about the bacitracin. do chalazia usually turn into an open wound like this though as a result of the compresses/natural healing process?