Why we see many eye floaters

Have you ever wondered what that small transparent blob or worm-like objects drift aimlessly in your vision?And when you try to take a good look it floats away and reappears as you shift your focus somewhere else?

Well,i have and often spend a lot of time during my childhood glaring at the blue sky and thought that something was wrong with my eye!

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These are called Eye Floaters and is a commonly occurring phenomenon.Its scientific name is muscae volitantes (meaning flying flies).

Don’t be scared!They aren’t any parasites or other external harmful bodies.They are some small tissue like undissolved vitreous gel,Red Blood Cell or clumps of protein that floats in the eye fluid.They cast shadows on the retina when light falls onto your eye.Our eye fluid move as we move our eye and so do the floaters.If you try to look directly at them, the floaters may thus seem to disappear.

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