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Start eating pineapple, you will be surprised of the effect on the floaters.
by cuasijoe 1mo ago
Start eating pineapple, you will be surprised of the effect on the floaters.
- shermantanktop 1mo agoInteresting. This is from personal experience? Has anyone else eaten pineapple and had a similar experience?
- wlesieutre 1mo agoApparently the subject of some small studies, could do with some replication https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition/pineapple-eye-floaters-sweet-deal-or-pipe-dream https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition/pinea...
- shermantanktop 1mo agoInteresting. Summarizing: pineapples contain a compound which breaks up collagen. No proof it does that to the human body, or floaters specifically. But if it did, I’ve got terrible collagen and so I won’t be eating pineapple everyday, regardless of what the Taiwanese pineapple council would like me to do.
- andai 1mo agoPineapple contains enzymes that digest flesh. I don't know if that's relevant here, but it seemed worth mentioning.
- lmz 1mo agoEven so, how would a meaningful amount of it be delivered to the eye from oral ingestion without damaging anything in between?
- JimTheMan 1mo agoThere's something to be said about HN, the supposed rationality and intelligence of the forum, and the massive blind spot posters have about anything medical or otherwise biological. There is no scientific consensus on it! Although I doubt there's any harm in eating more fruit.
- SubiculumCode 1mo agoOne can always get the surgery, where they vacuum them out..doesn't seem worth the risk to me, even if they annoy me.
- Auracle 1mo agoI believe there’s a laser surgery to break up the big ones that’s would have far less adverse side effects (though, I suppose maybe the chance of something even worse).
- m463 1mo agoI talked to my ophthalmologist about this (he was not only good, he was a professor at a teaching hospital) He said, there may be some doctors who purport to do this kind of thing. The way he was saying it though was maybe you could floater removal, and a butt lift at the same time from a sketchy doctor.
- XenophileJKO 1mo agoThere is some actual science here, just the studies aren't great. I have floaters and stumbled on research out of Taiwan related to this. Mostly out of Tiawan. There is some possible confirmation from Italy, but the study was a cocktail treatment, so you can't isolate the bromelain effects. What I haven't seen is any properly controlled study proving it false. Just a cluster of researchers in Tiawan with flawed study construction.
- somenameforme 1mo agoThere's a typical problem with many sorts of simple treatments. Even though they're simple, organizing 'proper' medical studies on their effect is quite expensive. It's not the drugs that are expensive in medical trials, but the organization, staffing, recruitment, monitoring, and so on. Who's going to pay? With patentable drugs this isn't a problem, because big pharma stands to make billions if they discover a patentable treatment, but something like pineapples can't be patented or profited off of. For another example, in most of Asia you will see ginger recommended medicinally/prophylactically just about everywhere. I always assumed it was kind of hokey, but when you look at what studies have been done (e.g. as a treatment or prophylactic for colds), not only does it have an effect, but a rather large one.
- empiricus 1mo agoI am taking some bromelain and papain capsules which according to some (small) studies should help. In my experience, the floaters became more transparent, but don't disappear. This is still useful i guess.