Color Blindness Disease

 Color Blindness Disease - Color blindness is a condition when retinal cells are not able to respond to color properly.Cone cells in the retina of the eye suffered permanent impairment or damage.

A. Classification of color blindness:

1. Trikromasi

Eye color change the sensitivity level of one or more cone cells in the retina. This type of color blindness is often experienced by people. There are three classifications of derivatives on trikomasi:

* Protanomali, a known weak red color blindness

* Deuteromali, green will be difficult to be recognized by the patient

* Trinomali (low blue), a condition in which the blue color difficult to identify the patient.

2. Dikromasi

That is the situation when one of the three cone cells do not exist. There are three classifications of derivatives:

Protanopia, red cone cells do not exist so that the brightness of the color red or something in between less

* Deuteranopia, retinal cone cells do not have a green-sensitive

* Tritanopia, blue cone cells are not found.

3. Monokromasi

Monokromasi true color blindness is often regarded as the common people. This condition is characterized by the total damaged retina in response to color. Only black and white that can be accepted retina.

B. Causes of Color Blindness

Color blindness is a genetically inherited condition. Carried by the female X chromosome, inherited color blindness to their children. When someone is having a color blind, their eyes are not able to produce the overall eye pigment necessary for normal functioning.

C. Facts about Color Blindness

A. Color blindness is more common in one sex men than women. As many as 99% of a color-blind can not distinguish between green and red colors. Also found cases of patients who cannot recognize the difference between red and green.

2. This eye defect is a genetic disorder passed down from father or mother.

3. Has not been established relating the number of people, but a study says 8 -12% of European men are people with color blindness. While the percentage of European women of color blindness is 0.5 -1%. Level of color blindness in the other continents is certainly varied.

4. There is no way to treat color blindness, because he is not a disease but a defect of the eye. It could be a color blind would feel tortured by this state. Some companies set a condition that workers should not color blind.

5. To find out whether someone is suffering from color blindness, carried out tests using named Ishihara plates.

6. Often lay people assume people with color blindness can only see black and white, like watching a silent movie in black and white. This assumption is actually wrong.

7. The bull was color blind. The impression created in red lead to the soaring emotions of animals, not the result of the red color itself.

8. In World War II, soldiers who are color blind are sent to a specific mission. Their inability to see the green color converted to detect camouflage made the opposition.

9. Famous artists of color blindness include Mark Twain, Paul Newman, Meat Loaf, Bing Cosby, Bob Dole.

10. Every person is born color blind when first born.

11. Emerson Moser, senior crayon maker, admitted that his blue-green color blind and unable to see color as a whole.

12. People with color blindness has always been haunted by the question "What color is it?"