![]() If you have a sudden shower of floaters, get seen within 24 hours to rule out a retinal tear. It is described as a ‘shower’ of floaters. Floaters caused by a retinal tear are many and dense. These are not like the normal occasional extra floater that comes and goes. Blood would appear in the eye as multiple dense floaters. This allows the retina to slowly peel away from the back of the eye. A tear to the retina will break the vacuum. A retinal tear is very serious, as the retina is largely glued to wall of the eye by vacuum. In a small percentage of people, as the gel peels away from the retina, if the gel is too adherent at any one point, the retina can tear. These floaters are the back surface of the gel, which used to be attached to the retina, but is now moving in front of the retina. Eventually, when the PVD has completed you will have more floaters that usual. As a PVD develops you may experience some flashing of lights as the gel pulls on the retina. This PVD occurs in everybody and is a normal part of aging. Hence, it naturally separates from the retina lining the eye in a process known as a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD). ![]() There comes a point, usually in midlife, when the gel has shrunk so much that it can no longer fill the whole cavity. As we age the vitreous gel shrinks and dissolves. ![]() When we are born this vitreous gel is adherent to the retina and fills the whole cavity of the eye. The cavity of the eye is filled with a transparent gel, known as the vitreous. The retina is a thin sheet of photographic film that lines the inside of the eye. ![]()
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