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What Causes Eye Floaters After Bending Over?
I was bending down cleaning from under my kitchen sink, and when I stood back upright a collage of bright yellow spots started swarming and I felt dizzy. what is wrong? what is causing this. a couple of days ago, I was not bending down, and I starting seeing black spots. please help me
Mon, 22 Aug 2016
Thanks for contacting with your health concern and following is symptom wise approach:
1. seeing floaters/stars could be due to lack of blood/oxygen reaching the brain when one suddenly stands after bending over which are actually the neurons in the visual cortex misfiring or low blood pressure.
2. if the phenomenon is recurrent you should see an Ophthalmologist to exclude PVD [posterior vitreous detachment] which can result in retinal detachment and thus cause blindness.
1. seeing floaters/stars could be due to lack of blood/oxygen reaching the brain when one suddenly stands after bending over which are actually the neurons in the visual cortex misfiring or low blood pressure.
2. if the phenomenon is recurrent you should see an Ophthalmologist to exclude PVD [posterior vitreous detachment] which can result in retinal detachment and thus cause blindness.
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