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ave you ever noticed a small gray shadow moving across your vision that looks like a little piece of string that’s inside your eye? That’s an eye-floater, a small piece of debris from the wall of your eye left over from when you were born. Everyone has them to some degree, but some much more than others.
Your eye is filled with a semi-solid gel that’s turning into a liquid slowly as you age. This gel is normally transparent so light can travel through it and let you see clearly. Light enters through a lens at the front of your eye called the cornea and strikes the retinas in the back of the eye, which translates signals to your brain and allows you to see. The shadows you see are stuff that got in the way of the light, little black specs that are casting shadows onto your retina and making you see black spots. They hover in the gel and move around as your eyes move, sometimes stirring up right into your vision. Sometimes these floaters are large enough to impair vision and cause people to take action against them.
So what can you do about these floaters? Unfortunately the individual can’t do much about them. No vitamins or relaxing exercise will treat these objects as your body has no means or desire to remove them naturally. So folks typically learn to live with them and try not to focus upon them. However it is possible to remove them. Laser surgery can be performed such that a small concentrated beam can strike a floater for nanoseconds of time and burn it away while the rest of your eye is unharmed. Other than that, the only option is a vitrectomy, a procedure where instruments are inserted into the eye in order to remove the floaters from the gel. If you have floaters that are large enough to limit your vision and prevent you from doing the things you love, consider having them removed and ask your doctor about your options.

ave you ever noticed a small gray shadow moving across your vision that looks like a little piece of string that’s inside your eye? That’s an eye-floater, a small piece of debris from the wall of your eye left over from when you were born. Everyone has them to some degree, but some much more than others.
Your eye is filled with a semi-solid gel that’s turning into a liquid slowly as you age. This gel is normally transparent so light can travel through it and let you see clearly. Light enters through a lens at the front of your eye called the cornea and strikes the retinas in the back of the eye, which translates signals to your brain and allows you to see. The shadows you see are stuff that got in the way of the light, little black specs that are casting shadows onto your retina and making you see black spots. They hover in the gel and move around as your eyes move, sometimes stirring up right into your vision. Sometimes these floaters are large enough to impair vision and cause people to take action against them.
So what can you do about these floaters? Unfortunately the individual can’t do much about them. No vitamins or relaxing exercise will treat these objects as your body has no means or desire to remove them naturally. So folks typically learn to live with them and try not to focus upon them. However it is possible to remove them. Laser surgery can be performed such that a small concentrated beam can strike a floater for nanoseconds of time and burn it away while the rest of your eye is unharmed. Other than that, the only option is a vitrectomy, a procedure where instruments are inserted into the eye in order to remove the floaters from the gel. If you have floaters that are large enough to limit your vision and prevent you from doing the things you love, consider having them removed and ask your doctor about your options.

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