Can low iron cause eye floaters?

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• Jackson

  01/13/2013

  Well, yes, low iron can lead to eye floaters. Generally speaking, you should know that iron deficiency can lead to some eye problems including eye floaters. According to some experts, when your body does not have enough red blood cells, iron deficiency may occur. At that moment, it will just affect your eyes. And then of course some eye problems like eye floaters may appear. By the way, dark circles, puffy eyes, even red eyes can be possible. So just be careful about the intake of iron. For example, you can just eat some health foods which contain much iron.

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• walkamong123

  01/14/2013

  In reality, low iron is quite a normal phenomenon,which is possible to give rise to eye floaters. With iron deficiency, the body iron enzyme activity is reduced which may thus be caused many organization cell metabolic disorders, clinical symptoms and so on. In addition to sallow complexion owned by the person with little iron in the body, it can severe anemia, which may lead to the no elastic skin around the eyes and finally cause eye floaters. For this situation, you are supposed to drink more water every day, and increase the food contains of iron like lean red meat and beans and many other supplement such as broccoli, kale, spinach and something else. I promise you will see changes soon.

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• Paige evelyn

  01/11/2013

  There are many reasons contributes eye floaters, and low iron is one of the reasons. In most cases, floaters do not need treatment because it will disappear eventually. Try to move your eye around or try looking up or down when floaters appear in your vision to move the floater. And for the severe cases, you must have a surgery to remove it.

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