{"id":52372,"date":"2025-04-25T21:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-what-are-eye-floaters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:05:13","slug":"mayo-clinic-minute-what-are-eye-floaters","status":"publish","type":"mayo","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/es\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-what-are-eye-floaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Clinic Minute: What are eye floaters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mx-auto   wordpress-block wordpress- core-\">\n<p><strong>Jason Howland:<\/strong> Having vision problems? Do you see black or gray specks, strings or cobwebs that drift about when you move your eyes? It could be eye floaters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amir Khan, M.D., Consultant, Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic:<\/strong> In the back of our eyes, we have a substance called &#8220;the vitreous.&#8221; When we&#8217;re young, it&#8217;s a firm clump of jelly. As we age, this firm clump of jelly can liquefy and break up into smaller pieces. Those smaller pieces are what you may notice as floater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Howland:<\/strong> Eye floaters are more common as you get older and if you&#8217;re nearsighted. The biggest concern \u2013 they can cause retinal tears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Khan:<\/strong> If a tear develops in the retina, fluid can get in underneath that tear and just lift the retina off like wallpaper off a wall and that&#8217;s a retinal detachment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Howland:<\/strong> And that can cause blindness, which is why it&#8217;s especially important to have a dilated eye exam within days of noticing new floaters or changes in vision. Most eye floaters don&#8217;t require treatment, but your eye doctor likely will recommend regular eye exams to ensure the condition doesn&#8217;t worsen.<\/p>\n<p>For the Mayo Clinic Newsnetwork, I&#8217;m Jason Howland.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most eye floaters are harmless, but occasionally they could mean a serious problem.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[1686,1685,1682,1684],"class_list":["post-52372","mayo","type-mayo","status-publish","hentry","tag-anatomical-structure","tag-condition","tag-person-group-concept","tag-theme-of-focus","content_type-diseases-conditions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mayo Clinic Minute: What are eye floaters? - Hancock Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/es\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-what-are-eye-floaters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayo Clinic Minute: What are eye floaters? 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