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Cataracts Health Center Cataracts Overview. Cataracts are cloudy areas in the lens of the eye that can cause changes in vision. Symptoms of cataracts include cloudy or fuzzy vision as well as sensitivity to glare. Cataracts are treated with surgery.
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What you need to know about cataracts People with cataracts may have the following symptoms: 1  Blurry, cloudy, or misty vision. 2  Vision may be affected by small spots or dots. 3  The patient sees small patches that blur parts of the field of vision.  Vision worsens when lights are 1  dim. Vision is sometimes worse when there is very bright light, or glare.
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10 Symptoms of Cataracts: Know the Signs 10 Symptoms of Cataracts: Know the Signs. 10 Symptoms of Cataracts: Know the Signs. A cataract signifies the clouding of the eye lens which naturally affects clarity of vision. In most cases, cataracts develop slowly and may not affect eyesight very significantly. However, they soon begin impacting vision and if left untreated, may even cause blindness.
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Symptoms of Cataracts Review the available Assessment Questionnaires for the symptoms of Cataracts: 1  Blurred vision -- Assessment Questionnaire. 2  Cloudy vision -- Assessment Questionnaire. 3  Sensitivity to light -- Assessment Questionnaire.
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The Facts About Eye Floaters and Flashes 1 The formation of protein clumps in the vitreous gel. These types of eye floaters tend to look like squiggles, cobwebs, tadpoles, or circles. They remain in the vitreous gel permanently, and people tend to ignore them.  The bursting of blood vessels in the retina as the shrinking vitreous gel pulls on them.
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- Call the doctor about vision problems if you: Have symptoms of retinal detachment such as floaters or flashes of light in your vision. You need immediate treatment to save vision in that eye. Feel like a curtain covers part of your vision.
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- 10 Signs of Cataracts. The simplest definition of a cataract is that it is a clouding of the lens of your eye. The lens is normally clear in a healthy eye. This clouding normally develops slowly over time and symptoms may at first be nearly imperceptible. They will, however, usually become more advanced over a period of time.
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Glaucoma Immediate medical attention is especially important if the floaters are accompanied by flashes of light or a loss of side vision. If you have these symptoms, see an eye doctor right away. If available, choose an ophthalmologist with retinal expertise. Without immediate treatment, you can have permanent vision loss.
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Black Spots in Vision not Floaters, Seeing and Dizzy, Sudden, Little, Little, Dot, Causes, Treatment 1 Posterior uveitis, which can cause eye floaters, may be caused by infection or inflammatory diseases, among other causes. 2  Bleeding in the eye. 3  Bleeding into the vitreous can have many causes, including injury and blood vessel problems. 4  Torn retina.
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Summit Medical Group Web Site Sometimes retinal holes and tears have no symptoms. However, if you suddenly see floaters, which are dark spots or squiggles in your vision, or flashes, which are flickers or arcs of light in your side vision, you may have a hole or tear. Symptoms of a larger retinal tear or retinal detachment may include:
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- Eye floaters result when something besides light from the environment stimulates the retina, which is the light-sensing structure at the back of the eye. This stimulation causes the retina to send a signal to the brain. The brain may interpret the signal as an apparent object floating in the field of vision (floater) or as a simple, sudden flash of light that can look like lightning, spots, or stars (photopsia). Photopsias can occur when the eyes are rubbed.
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- The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Cataracts includes the 15 symptoms listed below: 1  No early symptoms. 2  Blurred vision. 3  Cloudy vision. 4  Corneal clouding. 5  Foggy vision. 6  Progressive blurring of vision. 7  Sensitivity to light.
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Cataracts and floatersrizzobr Jul 17, 2008 While there are some rare cases where the floaters and cataract are related (chronic uveitis and secondary cataracts) the overwhelming number of cases of floaters and cataracts are incidental and related by the fact that both increase in number as we age.
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Cataract For other uses, see Cataract (disambiguation). A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye which leads to a decrease in vision. Cataracts often develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes. Symptoms may include faded colors, blurry vision, halos around light, trouble with bright lights, and trouble seeing at night. This may result in trouble driving, reading, or recognizing faces.
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What you can do about floaters and flashes in the eye About one-quarter of people have some vitreous shrinkage with floaters by their 60s; that rises to about two-thirds of 80-year-olds. Floaters also appear more often in people who are nearsighted, those who have had cataract surgery or a previous eye injury, and those with diabetes.
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Eye health guide Most people notice them in well-lit rooms or outdoors on a bright day. Often floaters are normal, but sometimes they're a sign of a more serious eye problem, such as retinal detachment, especially if you also see light flashes or a dark shadow come across the edge of your vision.
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Black Spots in Vision not Floaters, Seeing and Dizzy, Sudden, Little, Little, Dot, Causes, Treatment Eye floaters may be caused by: Age-related eye changes. Eye floaters most commonly occur as a result of age-related changes in the vitreous, the jelly-like substance that fills your eyeballs and helps maintain their round shape. Over time, the vitreous partially liquefies — a process that causes it to pull away from the eyeball's interior surface.
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- Symptoms of eye floaters may include: 1  Spots in your vision that appear as dark specks or knobby, transparent strings of floating material.  Spots that move when you move your eyes, so when you try to look at them, they move quickly out of your visual field.
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Freaky Floaters But listen to Dr. Ziskrout and resist the temptation to self-diagnose what’s going on. Call your eye doctor if you experience sudden onset of floaters, or changes to shape, size or frequency of them. Anything from bleeding in your eyes to a retinal tear or detachment could be to blame.
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Cataract Surgery Complications However, if you notice flashes of light in your vision or a sudden increase in the number of floaters in your vision, call your eye doctor immediately, as this could indicate a possible retinal tear or vitreous or retinal detachment.
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The Presence of Floaters After Cataract Surgery To better understand why floaters after cataract surgery occur, let us define what floaters are. Floaters are clouds, cobwebs, threads or dots that float in the line of vision. They are actually little specks of protein that become lodged in the fluid that fills the eye.
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Floaters in the eye. What are they? Eye floaters are more likely to develop as we age and are more common in people who are very nearsighted, have diabetes, or who have had a cataract operation or other eye surgeries. There are other, more serious causes, including infection, inflammation, bleeding, retinal tears, and injury to the eye.
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Vision Problems 1 Retinal detachment -- symptoms include floaters, sparks or flashes of light in your vision, or a sensation of a shade or curtain hanging across part of your visual field.  Optic neuritis -- inflammation of the optic nerve from infection or multiple sclerosis.
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- Tumors (for example, lymphoma) of the eye are rare causes of floaters. Foreign objects in the eye can cause floaters but usually cause other symptoms, such as vision loss (see Vision Loss, Sudden), eye pain (see Eye Pain), or eye redness (see Eye Redness), that are more troublesome than floaters.
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Vitreous detachment Symptoms of Vitreous detachment. Click to Check. Floaters - seen as spots, dots, circles, clouds, spidery webs, or various effects. All float in front of the eyes and move with the eye. Flashes - Visual light show effects; due to the vitreous pulling on the retina. Flashes when moving the eyes.
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Retinal Detachment Eye doctors around the world frequently examine people for a chief complaint of floaters. Patients describe a wide variety of symptoms, usually worsened by bright lighting conditions.