subject: Information About Mysterious Floaters [print this page] Floaters are small deposits within the eyes vitreous humour, the thick fluid or gel that fills the eye, which is usually translucent. Floaters have various size, shape, and motility. Floaters can appear as small spots, threads, or fragments, and so on.
In some cases, floaters are congenital, while most of the floaters eyes are acquired due to degeneration of vitreous humour or retina. For example, it is caused by the shadows onto the retina by tiny structures of protein or cell debris. Floaters are also common after eye surgeries such as cataract operations or eye injures treatment.
Floaters are suspended in the vitreous humour or float slowly before the floaters eye following the rapid motions of the eye. And floaters have a tendency to sink toward the bottom of the eyeball.
Floaters are visible especially when floaters eye are looking at a blank surface, blue sky or under bright light. The patient with floaters eye often suffer blurred vision temporarily because the floaters will catch and refract light. The blurred vision may disappear when the floater moves to a corner. So the floaters eye may troblem the patient in thinking they have seen something out of their eye that really is not there. However these floaters exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but entoptic phenomena.
Floaters eye becomes a distraction if the spots seem to constantly drift through vision. After a long time, the patient with floaters eye may learn to ignore their floaters.
