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Seeing Spots In Front of Your Eyes. When to Be Concerned
 Seeing spots in front of your eyes? Or maybe little wisps or globs that move through your field of vision? Don't be anxious. You're seeing floaters, an eye condition that's "very common the older you get," says Jill Bixler, M.D., an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Michigan's Kellogg Eye Center.
Nearsighted? You may be more likely to get floaters. - Juliet White/Getty Images
Floaters can sometimes signal a more serious condition, including retina problems that could endanger your vision, but typically, they're just annoyances.
Why we have floaters
Most of the inside of your eyeball is filled with a gel-like material called the vitreous.
Imagine a tiny bag of Jell-O helping to provide shape and act as a shock absorber for the retina at the back of your eye. Unfortunately, as we age, the vitreous starts to sag and weaken. As the vitreous breaks down and becomes more watery, bits of the gel begin to peel off and float around inside your eye cavity. These bits cast shadows on the retina, and that's what you're seeing float by.
"Floaters are more obvious when you're looking at a bright background like a blue sky or a white wall," explains Henry Leder, M.D., a retina specialist at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Floaters can occur at any age, but most typically occur in adults from 40 to 70, Leder says. By some estimates, by age 70 nearly everyone has floaters.
And if you're nearsighted, "you're more likely to get floaters," says Bixler, because the elongated shape of the nearsighted eye adds to the strain on the vitreous.
When floaters are a concern
While floaters by themselves are not usually a problem, Leder says they "can be a warning sign of a retinal detachment. Retinal detachments can cause permanent vision loss and must be repaired immediately with surgery."
A "sudden increase in the number of floaters, paired with flashes of light or a veil over the field of vision, should prompt immediate medical attention," Bixler adds.
The flashes of light - akin to seeing lightning out of the corner of your eye - occur when the sagging vitreous detaches from the back of the eye, tugging on the retina and causing what appear to be short, bright bursts. Patients who are seeing flashes and floaters need to be checked right away by their ophthalmologist, says Rishi Singh, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. "A dilated eye examination is key to determining the difference between something benign and something more serious."
While retinal detachment is a major concern, floaters also can be caused by other problems, including inflammation in the back of the eye from infection; bleeding in the eye from injury or diseases like diabetes; or complications after cataract surgery.
SOURCE: Candy Sagon |
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DID YOU KNOW???
Pomegranate Juice
11 Health Benefits of Pomegranate Juice
Pomegranate juice has become popular in the past few years, but does it really live up to the hype? It looks like it.
Several recent studies have shown significant potential health benefits from drinking pomegranate juice. Here are eleven:
Fights Breast Cancer Studies in Israel show that pomegranate juice destroys breast cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. It may also prevent breast cancer cells from forming.
Lung Cancer Prevention Studies in mice show that pomegranate juice may inhibit the development of lung cancer.
Slows Prostate Cancer It slowed the growth of prostate cancer in mice.
Keeps PSA Levels Stable In a study of 50 men who had undergone treatment for prostate cancer, 8 ounces of pomegranate juice per day kept PSA levels stable, reducing the need for further treatment such as chemotherapy or hormone therapy.
Protects the Neonatal Brain Studies show that maternal consumption of pomegranate juice may protect the neonatal brain from damage after injury.
Prevention of Osteoarthritis Several studies indicate that pomegranate juice may prevent cartilage deterioration.
Protects the Arteries It prevents plaque from building up in the arteries and may reverse previous plaque buildup.
Alzheimer's Disease Prevention
It may prevent and slow Alzheimer's disease. In one study, mice bred to develop Alzheimer's disease were given pomegranate juice.They accumulated significantly less amyloid plaque than control mice and they performed mental tasks better.
Lowers Cholesterol It lowers LDL (bad cholesterol) and raises HDL (good cholesterol).
Lowers Blood Pressure One study showed that drinking 1.7 ounces of pomegranate juice per day lowered systolic blood pressure by as much as 5 percent.
Dental Protection Research suggests that drinking pomegranate juice may be a natural way to prevent dental plaque.
SOURCE: Health Diaries
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Here's your "QuoteAction" for this issue:
"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it."
Management Guru, Peter Drucker
Your action for today is to do something that would benefit your health that you have not been doing recently.
Have an extraordinary day!
SOURCE: Betty Jo Waxman
Productive Learning & Leisure, LLC |
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Our firm provides the information in this e-newsletter for general guidance only, and does not constitute the provision of legal advice, tax advice, accounting services, investment advice, or professional consulting of any kind. The information provided herein should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional tax, accounting, legal, or other competent advisers. Before making any decision or taking any action, you should consult a professional adviser who has been provided with all pertinent facts relevant to your particular situation. Tax articles in this e-newsletter are not intended to be used, and cannot be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding accuracy-related penalties that may be imposed on the taxpayer. The information is provided "as is," with no assurance or guarantee of completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of the information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose.
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