Contents:
- Medical Video: What causes eye floaters? Are eye floaters dangerous?
- What is that floaters?
- What causes black spots in vision?
- Anyone who is at risk of experiencing floaters?
- When floaters should I see a doctor?
- How to get rid of itfloaters?
Medical Video: What causes eye floaters? Are eye floaters dangerous?
Have you ever experienced black spots or spots on your vision? The black spots that fly in this vision are called eye floaters. This condition does not cause pain, but can be very disturbing for most people. Over time, you can get used to it floaters and ignore it, rarely a severe case that requires action.
What is that floaters?
From the name, floaters means something that moves inside your eyes. Floaters more visible when you see something bright, like white paper or blue sky, and tend to move away when you try to focus or focus on floaters that is.
Various forms floaters:
- Black or gray dots
- Notched line
- Like threads, it can be tangled and almost translucent
- Like a spider web
- Ring
Floaters will not disappear by itself. But over time, usually you will get used to and ignore it.
What causes black spots in vision?
Most of the floaters is a protein called collagen. This is a gel-like substance at the back of your eyes, which is called vitreous. As we age, protein fibers form vitreous shrink and gather into one. This collection of proteins forms a shadow on the retina, this is what causes you to see floaters.
Floaters can be caused due to:
- Age change. This change can occur at any age, but usually occurs between the ages of 50-75 years.
- Inflammation or infection in the back of the eye. Posterior uveitis is inflammation of the uvea layer (back of the eye), can be caused by infection or autoimmune.
- Bleeding in the eye. Bleeding on vitreous can be caused by many things, such as damage to blood vessels.
- Retina torn. Retinal tears can occur when there is a strong pull from vitreous on the retina. If left untreated, retinal tears can cause the release of the retina, which continues with the accumulation of fluid behind the retina which causes the retina to separate from the back of your eyes. If not treated immediately, it can cause permanent vision loss.
Anyone who is at risk of experiencing floaters?
The following conditions make your risk of experiencing black spots in vision become higher:
- Age above 50 years
- Nearsightedness (minus eye)
- Eye injury
- Complications from cataract surgery
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Eye disease
When floaters should I see a doctor?
You don't need to worry if you only have a few eye floaters which does not change from time to time. You should immediately go to an ophthalmologist if you experience:
- total floaters which increases suddenly
- Look eye flashes or a flash of light, which is a sign of the retina being torn or torn
- Loss of vision
- Changes that occur in a short time and worsen with time
- Formation floaters after eye surgery or eye injury
- Eyes hurt
How to get rid of itfloaters?
Floaters benign does not require medical treatment. If the black shadow of the vision feels disturbing you, try to remove it from your field of vision by moving your eyes up and down, this can shift your eye fluid.
If you have so much floaters so that it obstructs your vision, your ophthalmologist may recommend surgery called vitrectomy, which is by removing vitreous and replace it with a salt solution. Complications that may occur are the retina is torn or released, and cataracts.
The latest procedure that is safer than vitrectomy in treatment floaters is laser vitreolysis. This procedure uses a laser beam that is projected into the eye through the pupil and focused on floaters large size, the laser beam will destroy / separate it by evaporating so that floaters will disappear or shrink in size. However, before taking this action, your ophthalmologist will consider things such as age, how quickly the symptoms appear, appearance and location floaters You.
