Joel Kestenbaum O.D. is a VSP provider in Long Island, NY.
Today we welcome VSP provider Joel Kestenbaum, O.D. from Long Island N.Y. His guest blog gives an overview of those annoying floating spots we sometimes see …
Often patients either complain of or casually mention that they see little floating spots in front of their eyes. They are described as worms, dust, feathers, spiders, mites, flies on a wall, or just plain floaters. What makes these floaters and why do we see them?
Did you ever put your hand in front of a beam of light and see its projection on a screen? Lets think of the inside of the eye just like the inside of a movie theater. If you stand up and get in the way of the projection, you are seen as a shadow on the screen. In the same way, if something gets in the way of the beam of light coming into the eye, the image is projected onto the retina, the eyes’ movie screen, and seen as a floater with a particular shape.
Where do floaters come from? This is a complicated question and there are two basic answers:
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