What Are Eye Floaters? Plus Symptoms, Causes And Treatment

Treatment Options

Most patients do not require treatment as eye floaters occur naturally with aging. Some floaters are not harmful to the eyes and can gradually become less bothersome as the brain adapts to their presence in a process called neuroadaptation.

Looking up and down shifts the fluid around better than side to side movements when trying to get eye floaters out of the field of vision. However, persistent floaters that are bothersome and significantly interfere with vision, particularly when flashes are present, require medical treatment. Floaters due to traumatic injury and detachment may cause complications and often need treatment as a result.

Find out what medical treatment options are available to patients who need them now.