Color Blindness :
Color blindness is an eye issue caused due to color vision deficiency. Patients diagnosed with color blindness are unable to recognize the colors the way normal people see different colors and face difficulties in differentiating colors and their shades of red, green, yellow and a few other colors. Risk factors include a family history of color blindness with eye disease and patients having a history of diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and other related diseases that increase the risk for eye blindness. It is treated with an eye care specialist and diagnosed with an eye exam such as a simple color blind test. Treatment for this condition is not cured but the medications that are used for other eye related issues and getting treated for those underlying diseases can improve these symptoms. Additionally, wearing colored filter glasses and colored lenses increases the vision of colors helps to focus different shades.