External eye disease and the DO

For questions 1 to 3, please select the option which is most likely to be the lesion described 1 Red, painful lump centred around a lash follicle of two days' standing. (A) Internal hordeolum; (B) Chalazion; (C) Stye; (D) Basal cell carcinoma. The correct answer is C. A stye or external hordeolum usually develops in a matter of days, is painful and red due to an infective inflammatory response, and is a result of bacterial invasion of glandular material around the follicle of a lash.