Treating Eye Floaters

The standard vision tests performed by opticians, which quantify your vision as 20/20 etc., are unable to truly quantify many aspects of the visual disability incurred by floaters and how these floaters in the eye can interfere with general day-to-day tasks and overall quality of life. For some, visual tasks such as reading, driving or general observations may become stressful or laborious.

It is always advised to wait at least a year to determine if the floaters may decrease or become less prominent naturally. If they do not, then one can consider laser surgery or vitrectomy. However, we must caution that surgical or laser treatment of floaters is not considered a standard management strategy for reducing floaters and is only recommended by a handful of physicians, even then, under exceptional circumstances. For more conventional advice on learning to live with floaters please do read our open article entitled living with floaters.