“People don’t think of the eyes as a window to wider health,” a lead consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Blue Fin Vision, Mr Mfazo Hove, shared. Still, he cautioned, changes to your vision can be “the first clue that something serious is happening elsewhere in the body… Patients often assume it’s stress, screens or ageing. “But the eye can reflect inflammation, abnormal blood vessels, or cancer-related changes long before someone feels unwell.” That’s not to mention the fact that eyes themselves can get cancer, though that’s rare. Here, HuffPost UK spoke to the surgeon about eye changes he’d never ignore (and why). Which eye changes should you never ignore? “There are certain changes to eyesight I would never ignore, because in rare cases the eyes can be affected by serious disease elsewhere in the body, including cancer,” Mr Hove told us. Any new flashing lights or floaters, loss of part of your vision, a general drop in vision that feels persistently blurred without an obvious reason new double vision affecting both eyes, which goes away when …