Can eye infections cause eye floaters?

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• emptybot

  11/05/2012

  There are many causes for eye floater, and eye infection is one of them. Eye floaters can appear in many different shapes, such as squiggly lines, ring shaped, black or gray dots, etc. If your eye floater seem to worsen over time, or you feel pain during you have eye floater, you'd better see a doctor as soon as possible to prevent it become worse.

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• Theron

  11/05/2012

  Yes, the eye infection will easily cause the eye floaters. As we know, if we sit in front of the computers for a long time and use the eyes with no rest, our eyes may feel dry. Then we will feel uncomfortable. There will be the sediments in our eyes. When we sleep, the sediments should be absorbed by the corneal. However, too much sediments will not be absorbed all. Then the eye floater will appear. The dryness is the most direct cause for the eye floater. If you get the eye infection, there must be the eye floater in your eyes. If you don't treat it carefully, it will become the anti redness in your eyes. You should have a good rest for the eyes, not using them too much time. In addition, you could eat more food with vitamin C to moisture the eyes.

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• el_chupa_cabra

  11/06/2012

  Yes, eye infection can cause eye floaters. First , as we know that floaters are basically little blobs of protein that float through the hollow sphere which is filled with a thick, gel like fluid known as the vitreous humor. So when your eyes are infected by some virus, it can easy to have floaters. To treat the floaters, there are many ways. For your situation, you should find out the reason why your eyes are infected, so that you can heal your floaters. And also you can have a surgery. But on the other hand, you should know that proper nutrition can not only prevent new eye floaters from being formed by can decrease their appearance as well. In this way, your eyes that will help to prevent the formation of new floaters and will also promote the eyes natural healing process which, in turn, will reduce the appearance of eye floaters. So you can eat as many water and vitamin rich vegetables as possible.

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