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Floating eye phenomenon

Introduction
Cause
Examine
Diagnosis

Introduction

Introduction Eyeball floating phenomenon: the colorless and transparent gel-like body in the 4/5 cavity after filling the eyeball, mainly composed of collagen fiber filament and 98.5%-99.7% water. The vitreous itself has no blood vessels and its metabolism is very low. Its nutrition comes from the choroid and aqueous humor. The vitreous is susceptible to various physical, chemical, traumatic, inflammatory, degenerative, decomposing, and liquefaction phenomena. It is characterized by a variety of floating objects such as a bit shape, a line shape, and a spider web shape, and floats up and down with the movement of the eyeball.

Cause

Cause

The cause of eyeball floating phenomenon:

The vitreous body is affected by various physical, chemical, traumatic, inflammatory diseases, degenerative degeneration, etc., and decomposes, resulting in liquefaction.

After the eyeball drops very quickly, it slowly rises to the middle.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

Ultrasound examination of the eyeball and eyelids

Inspection and diagnosis of eyeball floating phenomenon:

First, the general inspection:

Directly observe the situation when the patient is looking straight ahead or when the patient follows the examiner's finger in a certain direction. Some need to be covered by a single eye for inspection.

Second, special inspection:

Equipment inspection such as nystagmus current map.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms of eyeball floating phenomenon that are confusing:

The slab eyeball is as if the eye is rising and pointing upwards; the other eye is descending and outward.

Floating eyeball: It is like a very rapid drop in the eyeball and then slowly rises to the middle.

Eye movement nystagmus, the phenomenon is that the eye moves slowly in the direction of the moving object, and then moves back to the original position in the opposite direction.