The thickened tears are not floaters.
Floaters are shed skin cells inside the eye, mostly from the retina.
These float around for days. They eventually go away.
Dry eye will cause thick tears on the surface of the eye, and that is another thing entirely. Real floaters are a serious symptom that must be seen by a doctor if they come all at once and don't go away as the day progresses.
You can buy artificial tears and an lubricating ointment which helps during the night, so the cornea does not dry out.
Some people like Systane drops. There are also individual applicator types (keeps risk to contamination very low) like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Naturale...tificial+tears
Most eye doctors I know recommend the preservative free types of tear. (my son has congenital eye problems with his left eye and used tears for quite a while at one time.)
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