This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Jeffrey Blice about the symptoms, causes and diagnosis of eye floaters. Dr. Blice is a ...

If you ever notice pesky dark strands that may resemble anything from a simple speck to a cobweb drifting across your vision, what you're probably seeing is what's known as an eye floater.

Also smart: Wearing blue-light blocking lenses when working ... triggering an increase in floaters. For some people, eye ...

When light comes into your eye, these clumps or strings cast shadows onto a layer at the back of your eye, called the retina, and show up in your vision as floaters. Eye floater treatment In many ...

The NHS is warning people to get an urgent optician's appointment booked if they have issues with their eyes - specifically ...

By keeping the pupil slightly dilated in bright light — outdoors but also when ... with the help of the book Laser Treatment of Eye Floaters by John Karickhoff. In 2012, I also did a fellowship ...

Vitreous opacities have many names including vitreous floaters and mouches volantes ... by blockage and scattering of light as it passes through the eye to the retina. We are all familiar with ...

The authors propose that floaters are usually diffraction patterns cast on the retina by red blood cells They are the spots that most people occasionally see before their eyes.

Floaters can have causes that aren't due to underlying disease. Examples include normal ageing or rubbing the eyes. Ophthalmologist Raj Pathmaraj explains more about it.