What are the eye floaters?
Patients will often see black spots of various shapes and sizes in front of their eyes, or filamentous, bubble-like, or lumpy floating objects flying as the eyeballs rotate, like mosquitoes flying in front of their eyes, so it is called eye floaters. It is usually discovered when patients look at bright backgrounds such as blue skies and white walls. Myopia patients, the elderly, and diabetic patients are at high risk of floaters.
Symptoms of Eye floaters
Floaters can be divided into benign and malignant. Usually, if there are floaters in both eyes, it is not possible to determine which eye has floaters. If a long time has passed and these symptoms have not worsened or occurred. The position of the floaters has also begun to change, which is benign.
If a sudden floater phenomenon occurs, the number and concentration of single-eyed floaters increase, and the mosquitoes fly in an uncertain direction. They are accompanied by other symptoms, such as black shadows covering the field of vision and worsening of vision, a precursor to malignant floaters.
What is the cause of eye floaters?
The vitreous body in the human eyeball is like the egg white in an egg, which is transparent and gel-like. When light enters the eyeball, passes through the cornea and crystalline lens, and then is projected through the vitreous body, the image is presented on the retina. If this transparent body becomes cloudy, floaters will occur. In addition, foreign bodies or parasites in the eyeball can also cause drifting matter in the eye.
If you suffer from serious eye diseases such asretinal detachment, retinal hemorrhage, optic neuritis, etc., the retina, optic nerve, ciliary body, and other structures near the vitreous will undergo pathological changes. The vitreous body will “liquefy” and produce some turbidity as we age. When the vitreous body liquefies to a certain extent, it will shrink into a ball and leave the retina, which is called “vitreous detachment.”
Treatment for eye floaters
Since floaters may be a symptom of a serious disease, the patient must go to an ophthalmologist for examination. If it is found to be benign eye floaters, although there is no special treatment, it will not affect the body and does not require special attention. However, if it is accompanied by eye pain and other vision problems, you must consult a doctor.
If the condition is serious enough to bother the patient, the underlying disease causing the floaters should be identified and treated to cure the disease. The doctor will use an ophthalmoscope to observe the condition inside the eyeball before deciding on treatment.
Prevention
There is no special way to prevent eye floaters, so the most important thing is to get enough sleep and not to overstrain your eyes.
