Acquired color blindness develops later in life and can affect men and women equally.
The cause of color blindness.
The gene which is responsible for the condition is carried on the x chromosome and this is the reason why many more men are affected than women.
Diseases that damage the optic nerve or the retina of the eye can cause acquired.
Usually genes inherited from your parents cause faulty photopigments molecules that detect color in the cone shaped cells or cones in your retina.
Diseases drugs e g hydroxychloroquine and chemicals such as styrene or organic solvents may cause color blindness.
Congenital color vision defects usually pass from mother to son.
Causes of color blindness.
Blue yellow color blindness and complete color blindness are passed down on other chromosomes so they affect males and females equally.
These defects are due to partial or complete lack of cones in the retina.
Color blindness can also happen if your eyes or the part of your brain that helps you see color gets damaged.
Color blindness or more accurately poor or deficient color vision is an inability to see the difference between certain colors.
Injury to the eye.
This is called a congenital condition.
Macular degeneration diabetic retinopathy glaucoma or cataracts.
There are three types of inherited or congenital color vision deficiencies.
There are a variety of tests one can take to determine if they are color blind.
Red green and blue colour blindness is usually passed down from your parents.
Color vision deficiencies can be classified as acquired or inherited.
However color blindness is not always inherited.
Other causes of color blindness can also be caused from a variety of vision problems including.
Though many people commonly use the term color blind for this condition true color blindness in which everything is seen in shades of black and white is rare.
Cones help you to distinguish the colors red green and blue.
Most people with color blindness are born with it.
Monochromacy dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy.