How do I remove a floater from my eye?

Question

I have had an annoying floater in my eye for nearly five years (I am 19 years old). I was told that nothing could be done about it. After doing some research, I have found a few supposed "cures", which involve certain natural herbs, eye exercises, and even relaxation techniques. Chinese medicine supposedly links floaters to a blocked liver. Are any of these remedies actually going to work, or am I going to have to live with it the rest of my life? Surely there has to be something that can improve it (with replacing the vitreous humor).

Answer 1

Usually, a floater becomes unnoticeable after a few months, but since you have taken the trouble to research this and post your question here, I have to assume yours is still bothering you after 5 years.

To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to remove it. What I would be concerned with is how to prevent any others from developing. Did your doctor explain how you got it? Usually floaters are caused by very tiny tears of the retina, but you are very young for this - these are more often seen in much older people.

A few things you might try to keep your eye health as good as possible:

- if you smoke, please do stop

- beta-carotene, about 10,000 IU daily

- lutein, a few mg daily

- omega-3 essential fatty acids from cold-water fish or (better) from molecularly-distilled fish oil capsules (alas, salmon today is often polluted with heavy metals; however if you can find wild salmon from Alaska, that would be the best)

- blueberries, cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, blueberries, other wild berries, for their anti-oxidant capabilities

- sulphur plants such as onions & garlic

- make sure your vitamin preparation contains trace amounts of selenium, zinc & copper

- your vitamin Bs should include B12, folic acid or folate, and in addition, you might consider buying this in a sublingual tablet form (dissolve under the tongue) as folate doesn't always succeed through oral ingestion in the alimentary tract

- vitamin B2, riboflavin, a few milligrams - however there's a warning here, if a person overdoses on one of the vitamin Bs there is a risk that deficiencies in all the others will develop over time - what I might do is buy a small bottle of vitamin B2 and take perhaps one a week, or at the most two.

Many preparations sold in health food stores and pharmacies "for the eyes" or "for vision" include lutein and also bilberry extract. Here's what my ophthalmologist said: he doesn't like bilberry because he's "seen too many patients taking bilberry who develop retinal hemorrhages." I didn't ask him why he thought this might be happening because, where I live, the specialist MDs have no time for any general discussion. However, about lutein he said "there might be something in that."

The TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) approach is interesting. In TCM, the liver governs the eyes. It's the wood element, often strongest in spring. Here's a hint: the dominant emotion is anger! Myself, I don't think a course of acupuncture will remove your floater just like that, but if you ever find a good acupuncturist and have the time & funds, it would be worth trying. The therapist would work principally on the liver and gall bladder meridians, seeking to liberate blocked "chi" or energy. You'd know you're on the right track if, after a few sessions, you find your overall vision improving slightly. Acupuncture would then become another tool in your toolbox to maintain good eye health for the rest of your life.

Wishing you all the best, hope that floater packs itself up & becomes less annoying.

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There is a CURE. I have/had a eye floater in my left eye. It was really annoying, I searched on-line and found there are no cures, went to the doctor, and she gave me a medicine called I-site. It was just a vitamin tablet.

Later, my mom bought a traditional (Unani) medicine called Surma and I just put it for fun, actully this medicine refreshes and cools your eyes, it is used by Muslim s like a beauty enhancer and medicine. I know this thing from my childhood.

And I just tried it, the second day i noticed my eyefloater somewhat faded. It usually comes everytime i look in to anything white. I began to use it daily. Now it is the 3rd week and the floater is almost gone.

Right now when I am writing this I can t actually find this floater. I know it is not disapperared it will be somewhere. But the point I think there is still hope. It surely decreased the appearence of the floater by almost 75%. The medicine called SURMA, is some fine powdered black rock. I think it will be easily available in asian countries. It costs like 20 cents.

So please consider buying this and give it a try. You will not regret.

Answer 5

There is no medical cure for it because a doctor can't give you a poison to take manage it.

By the way, floaters are basically chunks of protein caught in a aqueous fluid of the eye. The above person is incorrect.

I've had them my entire life. They do not fade away on their own and after 37 years I have yet to "get used" to them. I recently started using a topical gel which contains some specific nutrients. It stings a bit but after over a year of regular use one floater that almost literally looked like a goldfish is no longer visible. I still have several others so who knows what the years will bring?

Benefits like this is why I was driven to leave my old career and earn Board Certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner. It's true than NOTHING is a cure all. Heck, the most effective drugs on the market are only 40% efficacious (that's means 60% will have no results and need to be moved to a different drug).

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I'm 53 and had developed eye floaters about 4 or 5 years ago. The doctors told me that they're harmless, but whoever has had them knows how annoying they are. They also said that I could have them "burned off" with laser surgery, but there was no way I was going to "burn" anything off my eyes! So I kind of accepted that my floaters were there to stay.

Then I came across this system, and seeing that you were offering a full money back guarantee, I figured I had nothing to lose well I was wrong - I did lose my floaters!! Oh my god I still can't believe my floaters are gone and my vision is as pristine as it was 5 years ago!

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You can try that holistic stuff. If it really works, fine, but it won't. I've had floaters ever since I was 17. Completely filled both eyes. When I moved my eyes, it was like a tornado, all the swirling around of crap in my eyes. Gave me headaches, couldn't read, and I was miserable. For 36 years. Then I got a vitrectomy. Awesome. The ones left are minimal, a strand with a big squiggle in the middle of my left eye. But I can go hours without noticing them. I went to lots of doctors. They all said no. Then one said he wouldn't do a vitrectomy until he actually saw a big obstruction. He did that eye. But my other eye was still filled with them. I went to a doctor in Fairfax VA. He said it was no more dangerous than cataract surgery. He did the other eye. Wish I had done it much sooner. It is awesome. Do it.