What Are Eye Floaters? Plus Symptoms, Causes And Treatment

Certain Eye Medications

Certain eye medications injected with a syringe into the eye may cause an individual to see floaters. There are a number of conditions that warrant this type of medication delivery, including macular edema, uveitis, endophthalmitis, wet or dry macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusion. The floaters are the result of two different factors involving injected medications. The syringe may contain a coating on it comprised of silicone oil. This silicone oil may disperse from the needle into the vitreous. The oil droplets then appear as floaters in the patient's vision until their body absorbs them. The other mechanism involves how the syringe is prepared before the injection of medication. A technique called priming is used to help reduce the risk of air bubbles being injected into the tissue along with the medicine. When air bubbles are injected into the vitreous, they may appear in the patient's vision as floaters. While priming the syringe cannot prevent air bubbles, it reduces the chance of resulting floaters.

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