br ---Any Treatment For Eye Floaters. Eye floaters are extremely common, especially among older adults. They can occur in everyone, and indeed some people are born with them. Eye floaters are generally caused by damage, or imperfections in the vitreous humor, the jelly-like liquid found in the eyeball. They can also be caused by the solidification of proteins in this solution, or by the leakage of blood cells into the vitreous.