Talk:Floater

Premacular bursa?

Why is an illustration showing the and labeled "Premacular bursa" in the article when there is no mention of the bursa in the article itself? Do floaters tend to accumulate in the bursa, or between it and the retina or something? Is there a reason to point it out then not talk about it?

Yatagerasu (talk) 13:41, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

I was asking myself the same thing. Besides, there is no entry on "premacular bursa" in Wikipedia. The search query only gives the Floater article. I would suggest removing the image completely.

Fabianokm (talk) 10:21, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Speculation about a premacular bursa where floaters were "supposedly found" in children was added by an anomymous user in 2009.(dif1, dif2). The speculation was removed in 2018, but the illustration accidentally remained.(dif3) I am going to delete the image now. Ceinturion (talk) 19:44, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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Information on Floaters in Animals

https://veterinaryvisioncenter.com/eye-can-see-clearly-now-vitreal-floaters-in-pets/

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dogs-get-floaters-in-their-eyes-like-we-do/448611

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/vitreous-floaters

Here are some references that could be useful as it has been known that floaters happen in other animals too. As an aspiring animal researcher with tons of animals at home, I like to keep links that contain information on animal health issues, but not a lot of information on animal health issues is tackled here, so I wish to add them in order to broaden up coverage.

Cheers! LoverOfAllAnimalsActivist (talk) 11:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@LoverOfAllAnimalsActivist thanks for your edit! I would not trust "Veterinary Vision Center" as a reliable source for scientific information. The page from ScienceDirect you posted contains some articles that might help you write a better referenced statement, for instance this chapter of Equine Ophthalmology.

Have a look at Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science). Broc (talk) 11:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

More information requested on the black dots.

The jaggedy pale tan streamers / threads / precipitates are what floaters are. Check.

But the black dots, that look like scattered pepper in the visual field, NO? What is the medical term for those and is there an article in Wikipedia about them?

This article mentions retinal tears causing bleeding into the vitreous for one cause of the black dots. I would think that an ophthalmologist would see them bobbing around in there on exam, but he did not tell me that. He just said that floaters were unimportant and would go away. The smallest black dots do go away within a day or two, but more take their place. They are usually minute, like ground pepper; sometimes bigger, appearing gnat-sized to me; and once they were carpenter-ant-sized (that was really visually disturbing - and the bigger they are, the longer they take to disappear).

I would like more details on these objects, so if you could point me to an article on whatever they are called, I will grateful. Thank you for your time and help, Wordreader (talk) 15:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)