Please look at this cyst on my 5 year old’s eyelid

[TuscanMum]

Should I be worried?

The eyelid was really red and swollen just before Christmas.

Had a course of antibiotics, never went totally away but much better. At its worst, his eye was really red and swollen, could hardly open it.

Yesterday it started to look sore again and now this today.

It looks so horrible, really feel for him. Ds says it’s not sore.

Looks like it's getting ready to pop. I'd take him back to the gp

Warm moist compresses - used tea bags work well
Make a cup of tea, take the tea bag out, LEAVE IT TO COOL DOWN until only comfortably warm, then put on his eye lid until it cools totally.

It will soon pop - look up meibomian cyst.
Don't squeeze it, antibiotics will do very little, they tend to not be sore or affect eye sight.

Eye clinics run 'cyst clinics', usually nurse led, where the stubborn once at 'scraped out'. With a child, I'd do all I could to make it discharge without intervention.

My dd gets loads of these. She is under the hospital now and the v warm compresses definitely helped, but she is still getting them. They don't bother her normally but some can get sore and very red.

Your ds's looks a lot worse than hers. Sorry! Is this the only one he has had?

Yes to hot compress, it's a blocked gland called a chalazion by the looks of things. Cooled, but still hot, boiled water, never straight out of the tap, then wrap a teaspoon with a strip of kitchen roll. Dunk this in the hot water, check on back of yours or your son's hand to make sure not too hot, but hot as can stand, you want to do at least 5 mins of heat, minimum 3x per day. If spoon cools redunk in water. Give it a gentle rub after heat therapy. The more you can do it the quicker it tends to sort.
They can be excised in minor surgery at GP but they will want to make sure you have given heat therapy a really good go 1st.