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| Question: | I have floaters in the inside of the eye. Could you tell me if there is any treatment for this? |
| Answer: | Patients with floaters can ' see' one or more fine, dark spots or lines that appear to ' float' across their field of vision. Floaters are actually extremely small particles that are formed from clumps of cells, and drift in the fluid that fills the eye. This fluid has the consistency of half-set jelly.
These cell clumps break away from the inside lining of the eye, or are caused by bleeding from or damage to the lining of the eye ball. Most of them are not an indication of any serious disease, but because some floaters are caused by diseases such as diabetes, leukaemia, high blood pressure and other rarer but more serious conditions, every patient with floaters must be carefully examined by a doctor.
The only treatment necessary in the majority of cases is reassurance, but where a particular disease is found to cause the problem, this must be treated. Persistent, annoying floaters are treated by eye specialists using lasers.
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