SEVILLE, Spain — Do surgeons feel comfortable offering vitrectomy as a treatment for floaters? What is their attitude toward patients who are affected to the point of seeking surgery despite ...

Retinal tears and detachments are caused by eye injuries, are a risk with eye surgery, and can happen in the way mine happened which is called a posterior vitreous detachment.

Supplementing with vitamin C and the amino acid proline may make floaters less apparent by helping to rebuild collagen in the vitreous humor. That's why Dr. Abel recommends taking 2,000 mg of each ...

Do you ever see squiggly lines, thread-like strands, or small shadowy shapes in your vision only to soon realise you're not looking at lines as they are in your eye? Well, it's actually quite common, ...

But as for why they happen, the NHS site adds: “They’re usually caused by a harmless process called posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), where the gel inside your eyes changes.” ...

Floaters are a normal routine occurrence; however, when they become serious, it may point to a significant health issue. Dr. Polya notes that floaters are sometimes caused by Posterior Vitreous ...

According to the NHS, they are caused by a process called posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), a harmless process where the gel in your eyes changes, though this can also be caused by retinal ...

What the floaters can mean “What's really disappointing is when someone will come in with retinal detachment from a posterior vitreous detachment that hasn’t been examined earlier,” the ...

Uveitis, retinal tear or detachment, and vitreous detachment may also cause floaters. Learn about what can cause vision loss.

Another current treatment option for eye floaters is vitrectomy, a surgical procedure that involves removing the vitreous, the jelly-like substance inside the eye where the floaters are suspended.

"Floaters are opacities in the gel in the back of the eye called vitreous," says Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler, MD, an ophthalmologist and medical reviewer at All About Vision.