What Causes “Eye Floaters“?

Posted by anita hapsari | 9:07 PM

Have you ever heard about eye floaters? Eye floaters are odd-shaped objects that appear in our view, sometimes appears when looking at the bright-blue sunny skies. Which views any form of objects varies, sometimes intangible point, sometimes stringy shaped and long. This is not the optical illusion, This is probably due to the existence of vitreous out of place initially and then moving the ball around our eyes.

Media such as the vitreous is a clear jelly that fills the inside of the eyeball behind the lens from the eye to the retina, serves to maintain the shape of our eyes. Gel in the eye is composed of 99% water and 1% other elements, such as hyaluronic acid and collagen tissue. Hyaluronic acid serves to maintain the water molecules. Sometimes, the tissue issued a hyaluronic acid which is acid "catch" the water molecules. When this happens, will form the core of the aqueous in the vitreous body.

Then, part of a tissue of collagen and hyaluronic acid will be separated from its proper place and floats in the middle of the eye. And when the light pass through this area, it will form a shadow on our retinas. The shadow is what we see when this happens.

Children and adolescents are almost never experienced eye floater which is caused by a tissue of hyaluronic acid as described previously. This eye floaters ussually happens on old people, they usually appear like crystal nets in their eyes. This type of "eye floater" This does not occur in the vitreous humor. This occurs in areas Premacular Exchange, in front of the retina.

Floater this type appear very small in size, and only appears larger if it were closer to the retina. Unfortunately, this type of floater difficult if not impossible to treat.