What causes floaters and intermittent blurred vision when reading?
The most common cause of floaters is a condition called Posterior Vitreous Detachment. The eye ball contains vitreous humour which is a jelly like substane. The condition, also known as PVD occurs with age and it relatively common. It is nothing to worry about and shouldn’t cause you too much bother. You see floaters because the jelly moves and becomes loose from the retina with age. Your brain will learn to ignore them and you should be able to continue as normal. It might be worth getting it checked out to confirm the diagnosis. But if you start to see flashes and the floaters become more frequent then this needs to be check out urgently. Flashes can mean you have retinal detachment which has to be treated early. The intermittent blurred vision is hard to diagnose without asking you more questions about it. If it comes and goes when you are focusing on the same object then it could just be the floaters making your vision appear blurred. If it becomes more blurred when focusing at cer
