Vision problems can be
inherited, in fact they are called eye
hereditary diseases, these are eye infections that are inherited from
generations to generations, there are diseases that if your parent are having ,
definitely one of your grandparent may be having and you or your children may
have it . This does not mean that you
are going to be affected with all eye vision problems your parent and
grandparent have underwent.
The best way to establish if an eye condition
is hereditary or not is to undergo a medical test for the gene causing the
problems. Researchers have now
discovered most hereditary eye
diseases and here gene , therefore in
order to establish if you can be affected this his or no is to find out if you
have inherited these genes,
Your body has two type of gene, the dominant
and the recessive gene, if you have a dominant gene that suppress these vision
loss causing genes , then you are going to have these blindness, or in other
word if this genes are your recessive genes then you will not have these eye
infections, on the other hand if the genes are your dominant gene then
definitely you will have these eye vision problems.
Below are some of eye vision problem you can
inherit from your ancestors
Mocular degeneration: a
formation of blood vessels below the retina, these abnormal blood vessels will
leak causing serious and severe vision
problems:
Glaucoma: an eye
diseases characterized by the damages to the optic nerves, these are often
irreversible damages and will lead serious vision loss.
Cataract; an
inflammation of a thin lining on the eye lens, this will result to the clouding
of the pupil and causing vision loss.
