If you experienced the above, you could have a serious eye problem. Don’t panic yet. Read on. The black dot is called Floaters. I just come to know about it after my colleague went to consult an eyes specialist to check on what went wrong. She has been seeing black dot for a few months already. Below info is what I read from the leaflet that she brought back from the clinic.
Floaters are small specks or clouds moving in your field of vision. They are actually tiny clumps of gel, the clear jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of your eye. They are actually floating inside your eye and what you see are its shadow.
The cause of it, aging. When people reach middle age, the vitreous gel may start to thicken or shrink, forming clumps or strands inside the eye.
Actually, 70% cases if floaters are harmless. My colleague is given an eye drop to make the gel shrink. To look up and down and from side to side if the floaters bothers her. It will move the floaters away from your line of vision. It won’t disappear completely though.
It becomes serious when the shrinking of the vitreous gel pulls away from the wall of the eye and causes the retina to tear. This will cause small amount of bleeding. It can lead to retinal detachment and blindness of left untreated. Treatment, laser treatment to seal the tear ASAP!
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July 30th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Thank God don’t have this problem and I am 60! thanks for sharing so that if ever it happens I will not be scared!