It’s a good thing you came in now,” a nurse told me before preparing my right eye for numbing drops, an injection and the ...

It happens slowly over time. With it, you get a hole, tear, or break in the retina. That lets the vitreous gel -- the fluid from the middle of your eye-- leak under the retina. When the liquid ...

We get floaters when vitreous fibres - a gel-like fluid that makes up 80 per cent of the eye - clog together, according to Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists’ Dr Daniel ...

He said in a majority of the cases, macular holes are postulated to be caused by idiopathic vitreomacular traction (pulling of the vitreous gel on the macula). In some cases, trauma may be ...

PVD is a condition where vitreous gel comes away from the retina at the back of the eye. It is not painful but can cause symptoms such as seeing small, dark spots or shapes and flashing lights.