Barley is called purulent inflammation of the sebaceous gland, which is formed as a result of infection, most often the provocateur is yellow staphylococcus. Before the appearance of barley itself, the patient feels symptoms in the form of discomfort, mild pain and swelling in the eyelid. If you treat indifferently to this symptom, then after a short time purulent inflammation will be visible to everyone.
There are several most effective drugs for eliminating such a problem, the properties of which we will consider below.
Treatment of barley with the drug Acyclovir
This is a well-known antiviral agent that can relieve a patient of herpes, depriving, smallpox and barley. The composition of the drug includes:
- acyclovir ;
- milk sugar;
- potato starch;
- aerosil;
- calcium;
- polyvinylpyrrolidone is a medium molecular weight.
Drug medication with aciclovir tablets can save you from barley on the eye by destroying skin infection and suppressing a recurrence.
Contraindication is the sensitivity to the substance of acyclovir or to any other component of the drug.
Levomekol for treatment of barley on the eye
Levomekol is considered one of the most popular drugs for treating barley on the eye, while it is dispensed in pharmacies without a prescription.
The drug is made on the basis of chloramphenicol and methyluracil. Sold in tubes of 100 grams.
Levomecol is used as follows: you need a gauze folded several times to get wet with ointment and apply to barley. Sometimes you have to inject the drug through a catheter into the inflammation zone. But this method of treatment is used only in extreme cases and is possible only when observed by a doctor.
Levomekol has no contraindications and side effects. Of course, given that the ointment does not fall on the main apple or in the mouth, so be careful when treating the inflamed barley on the eye.