Best home treatment for blepharitis

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I am looking for advice on the best creams and ointments for blepharitis. Can anyone recommend what has worked?
Thanks!

Johnson baby shampoo in cool boiled water used to be recommended by ophthalmologist.
Over the counter
Blephasol gel on cosmetic pads. Wiping lids from nose to temple.

Use dry eye drops to refresh the ocular surface too

Washing my eyelids with Johnson's baby shampoo (in regular tap water) works for me whenever I have a flare up. I also use a manuka honey eye cream every night.

@TennesseeStella thanks, that sounds interesting. Which manuka cream do you use?

I had a similar post on this recently. Lots of people recommended the blepharitus wipes which you can buy in Boots. I bought some as I had been suffering terribly and I have to say the wipes have made a huge difference. They do work out expensive though (£10.99 for 20) and I use one in the morning and one in the evening but I’m going to drop the morning one and see how I get on. Boots did have them on buy one get one half price. However, I think I will try the gel to see if this works out cheaper.

Buy the liquid blephasol rather than the wipes. It’s still expensive, but works out cheaper. You use it with a cotton bud to clean your eyelids.

My soon to be DH has flare ups and gets terrible infected lids plus dry scratchy eyes with this condition and has been trialling a recommendation by his optician which is a USB charged heated eye mask every night for 10-15 mins plus special tea tree wipes called optase from Boots.

Thanks for the baby shampoo recommendation. We will try that now as trying to stave off a nasty flare up in one eye before our wedding on Saturday!

Thanks, will definitely try this.

Optimel. My optician recommended it. Quite expensive but it lasts for ages.

You need to use the heat mask as noted above to melt the oil plugging the meibomian glands before you use the wipes (eg opthase) or the dilute baby shampoo (although it’s recommended, for me eventually the baby shampoo caused more issues as I began to react to it).
just using wipes etc won’t work properly without the heat

Does dry eye cause blepharitis?

I think the two are linked. I have dry eyes and blepharitis anyway.

I have ordered the Optimal eye cream and the Blephasol liquid, both arriving today.
My eye is steadily getting worse, so wanted to check whether you think that it is actually blepharitis.

Just another photo so you can see how it compares to the other eye...

The blephaclean wipes are expensive but worth it during a flare up. They’re so large I usually cut each one in two just before I use it then put the unused half back in the foil packet for that evening. The Amazon knock-offs don’t work for me but the branded ones really do settle a flare up quickly.
I also use the blephasol liquid as pp suggest on cotton bud - I use this in the days/weeks after a flare up or if symptoms are mild.
Because this brand works so well for me I’ve also got their moisturiser cream for use around the eyes and I like this for daily use.

For me personally, I wasted loads of time with cooled boiled water and baby shampoo etc when I first started getting blepharitis but - no business relationship at all! - the belphawipes branded range are the only thing that works for me

Could that be a stye? Caused by the blepharitis

Definitely use a heated eye mask.Softens the clogged oil.I found Hycosan eye drops as recommended by my optician excellent after that and several times a day to hydrate the eyes.I was advised not to have heating in the car on too much or at least redirect the blowers as that one of the worst things for drying out eyes.

Yes...successfully treated myself last year.

All purchased from amazon so speedy delivery.
optase tea tree eyelid cleanser
Thealoz eyedrops for day
Hycosan for night..ointment
A therapearl eye mask I used warm

I got all this after researching online and cleared it in a week

Heated eye mask is the most effective, twice a day. Then I use the gel others have mentioned, but not as religiously.

I had a flare up last month and had forgotten how awful it could be - definitely worth keeping up the routine eye mask, for me.

Take flax oil.... don't know how but it works

OP from the photographs you’ve posted you need to make an appointment with an optometrist- preferably one with prescribing rights. None of the advice so far is appropriate in your case. Blephasol is not the answer, a course of systemic antibiotics is probably more in order but without a proper examination it’s impossible to say.
And to the other poster who commented on her partner having chronic blepharitis- again, a systemic antibiotic is probably more appropriate, make an appointment to see an optometrist.