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Impaired Vision - Visual Impairment


Symptoms & Signs

What are the signs and symptoms of the condition?

Following are common symptoms of visual impairment:

  • blurry vision
  • double vision, or seeing two of everything. This occurs when the images that are coming from each eye do not line up properly.
  • difficulty focusing on either near or far objects
  • cloudy vision, often described as "looking through a dirty windshield"
  • seeing so-called floaters or black specks across the field of vision
  • inability to see certain colors
  • inability to see peripheral objects, meaning those objects that are to the side, up or down
  • loss of depth perception
  • ability only to distinguish light from dark
  • total loss or absence of all vision

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