What's the difference between visual snow and floaters?!
Question: What's the difference between visual snow and floaters?
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Visual snow looks like the snow you see on a TV channel that is not working (thousands of tiny flashing lights on a black back ground). If you only saw it when you looked up at the sky and the spots then disappeared, you are not suffering from visual snow. Visual snow and floaters are two different problems and do not look alike.
Floaters can look like dots, tiny flies, dust specks or tiny squiggly strings floating in your eye. Floaters are caused when the vitreous (a gel like substance that fills most of the eye) becomes stringy, pieces break away and we see floaters. Sometimes floaters can sink to the bottom of the eye and are no longer visible, but others often others replace them. They are not dangerous unless accompanied by other symptoms. Floaters are annoying but we all get them eventually.
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