"Floaters" in the eyes.
Here's an interesting one. One of the chaps at work suddenly found that he had something in one of his eyes - as if a speck of dust had blown into it, but without any sensation of a foreign/irritating object.
After 4 or 5 days he went to an opthalmic surgeon who (after a thorough examination) told him that it was lose membrane (?) in the vitreous fluid. Apparently it doesn't affect the vision and will probably disappear after a (unknown) period of time.
According to the pilot, the doc said, it can occur at almost any time, and that it may even be usual to have one or two of these little critters hanging around.
Anyone else come across these things? Is there any way of decreasing one's chance of getting one? Sounds a bit worrying to the uninitiated.
Last edited by Kaptin M; 16th May 2002 at 08:34.