Color+Blindness+(Sick+Genes)

//Omar Correa Period 1 Sick Genes // //__ COL __////__ OR BLI __////__ NDESS __// //__Genetic Disorder: __// C olor blindness is a type of genetic disorder where you are unable or have a less chance of seeing a color. It can also be where you cannot see the difference between different colors.

//__Symptoms: __// The symptoms of color blindness are that you may see some colors, but cannot see other colors. For example, maybe you can’t tell the difference between red and green, but you can distinguish yellow and blue. Another symptom is that you only see the colors white, black, and gray. Also, you might see just a couple of shades of color instead of many colors.

//__Genetic Relationship: __// Color blindness is a genetic disorder that is Sex-Linked. Most of the time, the disorder is passed from the mother to the offspring.

//__Genetic Inheritance: __// Color Blindness is a recessive trait.  //__ Etiology: __// Most color blindness problems are inherited. People usually adapt to their color blindness and just deal with it. Although people are limited to some jobs that require good vision, some people can at least drive. They just memorize road signs and signals.

//__Epidemiology: __// In the United States, about 7 % of males have some form of color blindness; 0.4 percent of females. Usually, color blindness is with the colors green and red, it is rarely with blue, but still occurs.

//__Diagnosis: __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Color Blindness can be diagnosed by a test where you look at groups of colored dots and try to find patterns in them. These patterns can be letters and/or numbers.

//__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prognosis: __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The prognosis for color blindness of course depends on how the disorder was obtained. For example, if it was caused by damage to a nerve cell in your eye, then color blindness would be incurable. Only in some conditions can color blindness be cured be surgery.

//__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Treatment: __//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In some cases, there is no treatment for color blindness. It all depends on how severe it is. Sometimes, surgery can treat color blindness if it is cause by something like cataracts. They just have surgery and take it out. If that’s not the case, then wearing colored contact lenses may help to distinguish colors, but doesn’t permanently cure it. Also, wearing glasses that block glare can help.