How do I remove a floater from my eye?

I have had an annoying floater in my eye for nearly five years (I am 19 years old). I was told that nothing could be done about it. After doing some research, I have found a few supposed "cures", which involve certain natural herbs, eye exercises, and even relaxation techniques. Chinese medicine supposedly links floaters to a blocked liver. Are any of these remedies actually going to work, or am I going to have to live with it the rest of my life? Surely there has to be something that can improve it (with replacing the vitreous humor).

Usually, a floater becomes unnoticeable after a few months, but since you have taken the trouble to research this and post your question here, I have to assume yours is still bothering you after 5 years.

To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to remove it. What I would be concerned with is how to prevent any others from developing. Did your doctor explain how you got it? Usually floaters are caused by very tiny tears of the retina, but you are very young for this - these are more often seen in much older people.

A few things you might try to keep your eye health as good as possible:

- if you smoke, please do stop

- beta-carotene, about 10,000 IU daily

- lutein, a few mg daily

- omega-3 essential fatty acids from cold-water fish or (better) from molecularly-distilled fish oil capsules (alas, salmon today is often polluted with heavy metals; however if you can find wild salmon from Alaska, that would be the best)

- blueberries, cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, blueberries, other wild berries, for their anti-oxidant capabilities

- sulphur plants such as onions & garlic

- make sure your vitamin preparation contains trace amounts of selenium, zinc & copper

- your vitamin Bs should include B12, folic acid or folate, and in addition, you might consider buying this in a sublingual tablet form (dissolve under the tongue) as folate doesn't always succeed through oral ingestion in the alimentary tract

- vitamin B2, riboflavin, a few milligrams - however there's a warning here, if a person overdoses on one of the vitamin Bs there is a risk that deficiencies in all the others will develop over time - what I might do is buy a small bottle of vitamin B2 and take perhaps one a week, or at the most two.

Many preparations sold in health food stores and pharmacies "for the eyes" or "for vision" include lutein and also bilberry extract. Here's what my ophthalmologist said: he doesn't like bilberry because he's "seen too many patients taking bilberry who develop retinal hemorrhages." I didn't ask him why he thought this might be happening because, where I live, the specialist MDs have no time for any general discussion. However, about lutein he said "there might be something in that."

The TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) approach is interesting. In TCM, the liver governs the eyes. It's the wood element, often strongest in spring. Here's a hint: the dominant emotion is anger! Myself, I don't think a course of acupuncture will remove your floater just like that, but if you ever find a good acupuncturist and have the time & funds, it would be worth trying. The therapist would work principally on the liver and gall bladder meridians, seeking to liberate blocked "chi" or energy. You'd know you're on the right track if, after a few sessions, you find your overall vision improving slightly. Acupuncture would then become another tool in your toolbox to maintain good eye health for the rest of your life.

Wishing you all the best, hope that floater packs itself up & becomes less annoying.

You're going to have to live with it. I have a big one in my right eye from a fall. It becomes less noticeable as time goes on and soon you won't realize it's there except once in a while.

Every time I have a floater I flush again...

My eye doctor was very clear in explaining that there is no way to remove floaters. So don't waste money on "cures".

whats a floater?

YOU HAVE A PIECE OF POO IN YOUR EYE?!
thats disgusting

xD

Nothing. Floaters are nothing more than blood vessels or blood in your eyeball, that is NORMAL. Don't sweet it. You're cool!

There is no medical cure for it because a doctor can't give you a poison to take manage it.

By the way, floaters are basically chunks of protein caught in a aqueous fluid of the eye. The above person is incorrect.

I've had them my entire life. They do not fade away on their own and after 37 years I have yet to "get used" to them. I recently started using a topical gel which contains some specific nutrients. It stings a bit but after over a year of regular use one floater that almost literally looked like a goldfish is no longer visible. I still have several others so who knows what the years will bring?

Benefits like this is why I was driven to leave my old career and earn Board Certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner. It's true than NOTHING is a cure all. Heck, the most effective drugs on the market are only 40% efficacious (that's means 60% will have no results and need to be moved to a different drug).

I don't think there is any cure for them. I was told that they shrink with time and are less noticeable. I find that if I think about it, I'm aware of it. When I get on with my life, I generally don't think about it and I am not aware of it. I have quite a few of them.

i know the frustration.I believe it can be cured by laser. My eye doctor is on vacation i will know for sure e.o.m. check it out