how do you ignore eye floaters do you really get used to the spots in your
vision if you have eye floaters you probably know the top three treatments are number one
give it time the brain should learn to adapt to the floaters and you won't notice them as much
number two a vitrectomy surgery where they can go in and remove the floaters from your eye
or number three a laser where they can zap the floaters into smaller pieces
well if the top recommendation is to learn how to ignore the floaters and kind of get used to them
are there any tricks to help with that well in this video i'm going to give you
five life hack remedies to help you decrease the symptoms of your floaters so let's focus in
hey how do you read this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, and i do videos all about the eyes
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videos let's talk about ignoring eye floaters so right off the bat if you have floaters and you've
never had them checked out by your eye doctor before definitely have them checked out make
sure that there isn't something more serious going on especially if they're new floaters and you're
having flashes of light those are the typical symptoms people might have for something more
serious like a retinal detachment retinal hole retinal tear so just right off the bat if you have
floaters definitely make sure you get them checked out by your eye doctor number one and
this may seem simple but it's to wear sunglasses even if it's simple sunglasses like these ones
the idea here is you want to dampen the intensity of light getting into your eyes when you actually
see floaters you're seeing the shadows of the floaters in your eyes so if you're looking at
a bright background like the bright blue sky or a bright white background that bright light
will get into your eye and cast a shadow from that floater and that's actually what you're seeing so
if you wear sunglasses you'll dampen that light down so you won't notice the floaters as much
now i do want to mention a couple contact lens options for you as well you can actually get
some contact lenses permanently tinted now will be tinted outside and inside but they'll act
like wearing sunglasses or there are transition contact lenses Acuvue oasys makes a transition
contact lens where you go outside it will darken when you go outside and can also dampen the light
a little bit on the inside as well and i did a video about that so make sure you check that out
and i'll put it in the description below number two and this is probably one of the most common
areas that you'll notice the floaters as well and that's when you're working on bright screens like
a computer screen all day long same theory is outside if you have a bright background you'll
notice the shadows of your floaters more so number two would be to decrease the brightness of your
screens or switch over to dark mode like windows has a dark mode will make the banners darker
and the screen darker and the background darker so it's a lot more comfortable to the eyes tablets
and phones should also have similar dark modes or dark themes that you can use as well so number two
decrease the brightness of your screens now number three is related to number two and that's
to darken your environment if you live or work in a bright environment you have bright walls bright
blinds it can definitely cause you to notice your floaters more so if you have the option to darken
the walls or the blinds definitely do that a lot of people don't have the luxury just to darken
their walls and so what a lot of people will do is they'll get one of those large black presentation
boards and actually put it behind their screens so it blocks out the bright white light or the bright
light coming from the walls and i'll put a link in the description below you can get them on amazon
it actually does help quite a bit for people that do notice their floaters a lot at work when
they're working on the computer screens number four and this also may seem like a simple one
but it's to stay active if you're sitting inside looking at your ceiling your bright white ceiling
you're going to notice your floaters more because your brain doesn't have anything else
to concentrate on so if you can stay active whether it's going on a walk with sunglasses
walking your dog or playing a game or doing a puzzle kind of keeping your brain active or
staying active outside it will kind of keep your your mind off of the floaters or you won't notice
the floaters as much because you're concentrating on something else so it seems simple but it's a
simple technique and a simple life hack to keep your mind off the floaters just really quick if
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out as possible number five is atropine eye drops now this falls out of the category of a life hack
but i still wanted to mention it because a lot of people ask me questions about eye drops that could
help with floaters and this one's kind of gaining more traction and a little bit more attention
and so i still wanted to mention it now atropine is actually a dilating eye drop we use eye drops
in the clinic to dilate people's eyes it makes their pupils really big so we can check the health
of the inside of people's eyes now atropine is a really really strong strong dilation eye drop
but they found if you dilute the drop way down to 0.01 percent it can have a slight effect on
the pupil can make the pupil slightly bigger without the other side effects of blurring the
vision now the previous things that i mentioned are ways to dampen the intensity of the light
by dilating your eyes you increase the pupil size and it causes more diffuse light that's
getting into the pupil and so instead of having a small pupil with a solid beam of light so you get
these solid edge shadows from the floaters if your people a little bit bigger it will cause diffuse
light and so the edges of the shadows from the floaters a little bit more diffuse and
soft so you won't notice them as much so these are possibly eye drops that can help the problem is is
it's fairly new like i said it's kind of gaining traction a little bit but it might be hard to find
eye doctors that actually prescribe the eye drops and if they do prescribe the eye drops it might
be hard to actually find the eye drops from a pharmacy and so it's a little tricky right now but
i still wanted to mention these eye drops might be something in the future that you can consider and
this is actually where i want to hear from you if you have any additional helpful tips or something
that helped you ignore your floaters leave it in the comments below i'm really curious to hear your
tips as well now if you haven't already check out my other video about floaters i go more in detail
about floaters and what causes floaters i'll put that link up there as well as in the description
below thanks for watching the whole video i'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, focusing on you and
your eyes stay focused check out my other videos right there and i'll see you in the next video