Antibiotics are normally given to patients with multiple styes or with styes that do not seem to heal, and to patients who also suffer from blepharitis or rosacea.

In Venezuela, keeping his former comrades in arms happy is obviously a concern for Chávez. But festering conflicts with his Colombian neighbors are also a factor, particularly in view of the constant accusations and suspicions that Chávez comforts and supports the FARC guerrillas in Colombia.