Color blindness has several causes.
The causes of color blindness.
Red green and blue colour blindness is usually passed down from your parents.
This can cause retina and brain damage and therefore can cause color blindness in infants and children.
Macular degeneration diabetic retinopathy glaucoma or cataracts.
There are a variety of tests one can take to determine if they are color blind.
In some cases it causes blindness.
However color blindness is not always inherited.
The most common color deficiency is red green with blue yellow deficiency being much less common.
This can cause color blindness.
Usually genes inherited from your parents cause faulty photopigments molecules that detect color in the cone shaped cells or cones in your retina.
You can inherit a mild moderate or severe degree of the disorder.
Colour blindness is a usually a genetic hereditary condition you are born with it.
If you have a cataract the lens of your eye gradually changes from transparent to opaque.
Your color vision may dim as a result.
Injury to the eye.
The damage is permanent so the effects will be carried on into adult life.
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.
Color blindness has been known to result from a number of causes.
It is rare to have no color vision at all.