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  1. Eye floaters - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Jul 2, 2024 · Most eye floaters are caused by age-related changes that occur as the jelly-like substance (vitreous) inside your eyes liquifies and contracts. Scattered clumps of collagen …

  2. Eye Floaters: Causes, Symptoms & How to Get Rid of Them

    Oct 23, 2024 · Eye floaters are spots you might see in your field of vision. They appear as gray or black specks, cobwebs, or strings that float around when your eyes move. If you try to look at …

  3. How to Get Rid of Eye Floaters and When to See a Doctor

    Aug 7, 2024 · Eye floaters may disappear on their own. Taking steps to protect your eye health, including following safety practices and eating a nutritious diet, may help prevent eye floaters. …

  4. Floaters - National Eye Institute

    Dec 4, 2024 · Floaters are small dark shapes that float across your vision. They can look like spots, threads, squiggly lines, or even little cobwebs. Most people have floaters that come and …

  5. Floater - Wikipedia

    Floaters are able to catch and refract light in ways that somewhat blur vision temporarily until the floater moves to a different area. Often they trick persons who are troubled by floaters into …

  6. Eye Floaters: What They Are, Causes & Treatment

    Jun 5, 2023 · Eye floaters happen when your vitreous humor (fluid) changes its thickness. This causes you to see squiggly lines or threads. Floaters usually happen as we get older and may …

  7. When to Worry About Eye Floaters & When to Relax?

    May 5, 2025 · Are My Eye Floaters Normal? For most individuals, eye floaters develop between 50-70 years of age, but you can see the occasional floater even if you’re younger than this. …

  8. What Are Floaters and Flashes? - American Academy of Ophthalmology

    Oct 24, 2024 · Floaters look like small specks, dots, circles, lines or cobwebs in your field of vision. While they seem to be in front of your eye, they are floating inside.

  9. What Causes Eye Floaters? 6 Possible Reasons for Floaters

    Mar 6, 2025 · A dark shape or line moving across your vision is known as an eye floater. Floaters in the eye are often a normal part of aging and usually do not require treatment.

  10. Eye Floaters - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Eye floaters generally look like moving spots that can take many shapes (some people describe them as looking like bugs or jellyfish or cobwebs) and disrupt your field of vision. They are …