SHREVEPORT, La. - If you've ever noticed tiny spots, threads, or cobweb-like shapes drifting across your vision, you're not alone. They're called eye floaters, and in most cases, they're harmless.

Floaters form when the gel inside the eye, called the vitreous, becomes more liquid with age, causing small fibers to clump together and cast shadows on the retina.

"Now some people have floaters that are a big blob that actually reduce their vision. We can do a laser called a yag that realizes to break those floaters up, but most of the time, 99% of the time a floater is just a nuisance and your brain will tend to tune it out over time. So it's not that it goes away, but you just quit noticing it in most cases," said Dr. Wyche T. Coleman III , a cataract surgeon with Willis Knighton E

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