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blue_lotus13As I mentioned in a private entry, I have a sty. It's getting a bit better, but it looks yucky and it still hurts. Knowing what it is makes me worry about it less.
I did a little research and discovered that a sty can actually be a manifestation of staphyloccocus bacteria. Readers of this website may remember that I had a reoccuring problem with staphyloccocus. I contracted a staph infection before I went to Mongolia. I got a boil on my hip. During my time in Mongolia, I had re-occuring boils, which I did not treat with antibiotics. This was due to my own ignorance, and because health care in Mongolia was abysmal. I did take antibiotics once, but they may even have been fake antibiotics, because there are a lot of fake drugs in Mongolia which look like antibiotics but really do nothing. The boils I got in Mongolia were terrible. At one point, I had a huge boil on my ass which made it difficult to walk. When I got this boil, I was on a cross country trip in a country with no roads. I was bouncing up and down in a jeep, and once, I even saw stars due to the pain from my boil. Upon my return to Canada, my mother figured out what I had, and I started several rounds of antibiotics. During the following year, I contracted 2 urinary tract infections, which I'd never had before. This meant more antibiotics. Now I have a sty. I think that allowing the staph to remain in my body for a year was extremely damaging and now I'm more susceptible to any bacteria that floats around. Moving to a new environment and dealing with the stress of moving has caused me to be susceptible to bacteria again. I guess I'll just have to be extra aware of this, be very aware about exposing myself to bacteria, and avoid developing countries for at least another year. It's sort of a depressing realization, but at the same time, it's very uplifting to have isolated and identified the issue.
I did a little research and discovered that a sty can actually be a manifestation of staphyloccocus bacteria. Readers of this website may remember that I had a reoccuring problem with staphyloccocus. I contracted a staph infection before I went to Mongolia. I got a boil on my hip. During my time in Mongolia, I had re-occuring boils, which I did not treat with antibiotics. This was due to my own ignorance, and because health care in Mongolia was abysmal. I did take antibiotics once, but they may even have been fake antibiotics, because there are a lot of fake drugs in Mongolia which look like antibiotics but really do nothing. The boils I got in Mongolia were terrible. At one point, I had a huge boil on my ass which made it difficult to walk. When I got this boil, I was on a cross country trip in a country with no roads. I was bouncing up and down in a jeep, and once, I even saw stars due to the pain from my boil. Upon my return to Canada, my mother figured out what I had, and I started several rounds of antibiotics. During the following year, I contracted 2 urinary tract infections, which I'd never had before. This meant more antibiotics. Now I have a sty. I think that allowing the staph to remain in my body for a year was extremely damaging and now I'm more susceptible to any bacteria that floats around. Moving to a new environment and dealing with the stress of moving has caused me to be susceptible to bacteria again. I guess I'll just have to be extra aware of this, be very aware about exposing myself to bacteria, and avoid developing countries for at least another year. It's sort of a depressing realization, but at the same time, it's very uplifting to have isolated and identified the issue.
