Color blindness is not a form of blindness at all, but a deficiency in the way you see color. If you are colorblind you have difficulty distinguishing certain colors. Color blindness is very common more than 3 million cases per year in the United States. More men than women are affected. Red and green is the most common followed by blue and yellow. A complete absence of color vision total color blindness is very rare.
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Why it happens:
- Certain eye diseases can lead to color blindness.
- Color blindness can occur in people with leukemia, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, sickle cell anemia or alcohol use disorder.
- Medication-certain drugs have color blindness as a side effect.
- Drugs that treat heart disease
- High Blood Pressure
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Nervous ailments
- Emotional disorders
- Working around chemicals like fertilizers and solvents
- Sometimes color blindness can be caused by physical or chemical damage to the eye, the optic nerve or parts of the brain that process color information.
- The condition is often inherited from the mother to the son on the X chromosome.
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