http://guthrieeyecare.com/icare/flashes-floaters/ Eye and Vision Condition Education from Dr's Doug & Lisa Cook Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://guthrieeyecare.com/icare/flashes-floaters/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Dr Doug Cook Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:02:31 +0000 http://guthrieeyecare.com/icare/?p=39#comment-32 A vitrectomy is a procedure that removes the vitreous - taking the floaters along with it. It is replaced with a sterile solution. This procedure has a risk of itself producing a retinal detachment. The chances of this complication can be as high as 10%. Most retinal specialists we have worked with greatly discourage people from this procedure if their visual acuity is 20/40 or better. The risk of complications is usually not worth the minor nuisance value of floaters. I tell patients floaters behave like bad neighbors, they show up when you would not rather deal with them. The strategy of coping with both is the same - ignore them and they eventually go away. A vitrectomy is a procedure that removes the vitreous – taking the floaters along with it. It is replaced with a sterile solution. This procedure has a risk of itself producing a retinal detachment. The chances of this complication can be as high as 10%. Most retinal specialists we have worked with greatly discourage people from this procedure if their visual acuity is 20/40 or better. The risk of complications is usually not worth the minor nuisance value of floaters. I tell patients floaters behave like bad neighbors, they show up when you would not rather deal with them. The strategy of coping with both is the same – ignore them and they eventually go away.

]]> http://guthrieeyecare.com/icare/flashes-floaters/comment-page-1/#comment-31 sophie gunn Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:15:26 +0000 http://guthrieeyecare.com/icare/?p=39#comment-31 My daughter sees floaters all the time, even when she closes her eyes. She reports having been seeing these floaters "forever", and she is only 6 years old. Two different exams of her eyes have shown that there is nothing wrong physically with her eyes/retinas...but is there anything to do to stop these floaters blocking her vision? My daughter sees floaters all the time, even when she closes her eyes. She reports having been seeing these floaters “forever”, and she is only 6 years old. Two different exams of her eyes have shown that there is nothing wrong physically with her eyes/retinas…but is there anything to do to stop these floaters blocking her vision?

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