Mild Color Blindness
Color blindness color vision deficiency is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.
Mild color blindness. Mild color blindness happens when all three cone cells are present but one cone cell does not work right. It detects a different color than normal. And since we get used to the way we see colors many people with color blindness don t know they have it.
Deuteranomaly is the most common type of red green color blindness. For example it may be difficult to distinguish between the red and green of a traffic light. There are different degrees of color blindness.
This type is mild and doesn t usually get in the way of normal activities. The 8 of colour blind men can be divided approximately into 1 deuteranopes 1 protanopes 1 protanomalous and 5 deuteranomalous. The most common type of color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between red and green.
It can impair such tasks as selecting ripe fruit choosing clothing and reading traffic lights. All forms of color blindness including protanomaly and protanopia can be diagnosed through a. However problems are generally minor and most color blind people adapt.
Approximately half of colour blind people will have a mild anomalous deficiency the other 50 have moderate or severe anomalous conditions. Curing color blindness is currently impossible. You have no working red cone cells.
The most common symptom of color blindness is a change in your vision. Usually when people talk about color blindness they are referring to the most common forms of red green color blindness which are genetic conditions caused by a recessive gene on the x chromosome but there are other types as well. It makes green look more red.
There are 4 types of red green color blindness. It s rare in females and affects about 1 of males. Symptoms of color blindness are often so mild that you may not notice them.
Color blindness may make some educational activities more difficult. People with very serious cases of color blindness might have other symptoms too like quick side to side eye movements nystagmus or sensitivity to light. Some people with mild color deficiencies can see colors normally in good light but have difficulty in dim light.
Protanomaly is the mild form of red green color blindness while protanopia is the more severe form. To cure this color blindness would require some form of gene therapy repairing the damaged chromosome.
