Non-lesional Anterior Floaters in the Elderly

Introduction

Introduction Senile physiological floaters are a type of physiological mosquitoes. The current Chinese medical law is mainly responsible for the liver and kidney yin deficiency, which has a good effect on the problem of flying mosquitoes. Moreover, Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the five internal organs are conditioned by Chinese medicine, which makes the body more and more plentiful, and it is best to reach the name. Effect.

Cause

Cause

1, uveitis, inflammatory exudate and inflammatory cells into the vitreous to form gray-white dusty, flocculent or agglomerate turbidity.

2, bleeding, retinal phlebitis, venous obstruction, diabetes, high blood pressure, trauma or surgery caused by bleeding into the vitreous, red, yellow, grayish white sheet or turbid turbidity formed during blood entry and absorption.

3. Pigments, trauma, uveitis, etc. cause pigment particles to enter the vitreous.

4, parasites and their metabolites, intraocular tumors or other parts of the body tumor metastasis, causing turbidity.

5, ocular trauma in the vitreous body remains.

6, due to eye trauma, bleeding, diabetes, etc. caused by vitreous tissue proliferation in the vitreous.

7, vitreous degeneration, more common in the elderly and high myopia, vitreous hyaluronic acid depolymerization liquefaction. People with diabetes and hypercholesterolemia may have cholesterol crystals in the vitreous.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

Eye and sacral area CT examination ophthalmoscopy

When a normal person looks at a white object or a blue sky, it can be found that there are small dots or filament floats floating in front of the eyes, sometimes closed eyes can be seen, but objective examination can not find any vitreous lesions. It is a physiological floater. It is generally thought that it is caused by the projection of cells of the vitreous cortex or blood cells walking in the blood vessels of the retina on the retina. No treatment is needed.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of non-lesional pre-flying eyes in the elderly:

1. Monocular shadow in front of the eye: Symptoms of choroidal choroidal disease. The patient complained of a single eye before the shadow, flashing, dark spots, blurred vision and decreased vision.

2, abnormal flash in front of the eyes, increased black spots: pathological floaters are generally caused by serious diseases, caused by changes in the vitreous, optic nerve, ciliary body and other structures near the vitreous.

3, a single eye suddenly appeared transient black Mongolian: some elderly people sometimes inexplicably one eye suddenly blind, after a minute or a few minutes, and some have repeated several times, some of them will be in the above situation A few days or months after the occurrence of hemiplegia, sudden limb movements, etc., even partiality. The above symptoms are also called monocular transient black in medicine, which refers to a sudden loss of vision in one eye.

4, black Mongolian: black Mongolian is the eye can not see or see the object when looking at the object, but the clinical symptoms of blackness in front of the eyes. Clinical manifestations in the form of transient erythema, often due to transient cerebral ischemia, anemia, hypotension, etc., should be noted.

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