Color blindness

By: Abby Bromley

What Is It?
● Color blindness is the inability to distinguish the differences

between certain colors.

● Color blindness mainly affects males and is an inherited trait.

● There are three main types of color blindness but other

versions can occur.

What Causes It?
Most color vision problems are inherited (genetic) and are present at
birth.

People usually have three types of cone cells in the eye. Each type
senses either red, green, or blue light. You see color when your cone
cells sense different amounts of these three basic colors.

Inherited color blindness happens when you don't have one of these
types of cone cells or they don't work right.
Statistics:
● About 8% of men are color blind
● Only about 0.5% of women are color blind
● People from European descent are more likely to get it
● 1 in 2 chance that a son will have the disease,
● 1 in 2 chance that a daughter will be a carrier of the disease,
● No chance that a daughter will have the disease.
The Three Types
● Deuteranope- the absence of green photoreceptors

● Protanope- the absence of red photoreceptors

● Tritanopia- the absence of blue photoreceptors

Regular human Deuteranope
color spectrum color spectrum

Tritanopia Protanope
color spectrum color spectrum
Symptoms Of Color Blindness In Babies:
using the wrong colours for an object

low attention span when colouring in worksheets

denial of colour issues

problems in identifying red or green colour pencils

smelling food before eating/excellent sense of smell

sensitivity to bright lights

children may complain that their eyes or head hurt, if looking at

something red on a green background,
Treatment
Curing color blindness is currently impossible. To cure this color
blindness would require some form of gene therapy, repairing the
damaged chromosome. However even this is only educated
circumspection, there is no scientific method available at present
that shows any signs of promise of a cure for color blindness.

Recent developments in light filtering lenses have made it possible

to provide color blind people with a greater ability to distinguish
between certain shades that otherwise look the same.
Fun Facts:
● More common in males
● A person can develop color blindness over time
● A person who is color blind has excellent night vision
● Facebook is blue because its founder, Mark Zuckerberg,
suffers from red-green color blindness.
● About 12.5% people in the world have been diagnosed

Quiz:
1. True or false, Color blindness is when
you can only see black and white.
2. True or false, Tritanopia is the
absence of blue color receptors.
3. True or false, There is no cure for
color blindness.
1 Multiple choice, Which is not a
symptom of a color blind baby.
a. Smelling food before eating.
b. Trouble identifying red and
green colors.
c. Coloring outside of the lines in a
picture.
2 Multiple choice, How many types of
colorblindness are there total?
a. Only three types.
b. Many types but only three main
types.
c. One known type
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Mar. 2017.

"Color Blindness - Topic Overview." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 27 Mar.

2017.

"Early Symptoms." Colour Blind Awareness. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar.

2017.