Do you have brown or blue eyes? Have you ever wondered how you would look at the world with green eyes? If not, be aware - the color of your eyes is not a given; it may change. The color of the iris can change under the influence of certain medications, injuries, as well as emotions and stresses. Read more about this in the next article.
Main emotions
If you are in a stressful situation or in shock, you are angry, happy or shining with happiness, one thing can be assured for sure. The color of the iris of your eyes changes. In some cases, it becomes darker, and sometimes lighter. The brightest and most saturated eye color happens when you are happy.
Why is this happening? After all, the color of human eyes is determined by genes. However, whether it will be darker or lighter is affected by an increase or decrease in the melanin produced by the body. Melanin production is partially controlled by your nervous system, which responds to your mood and stress.
Children's metamorphoses
If a baby is born with gray, blue, or dark blue eyes, this iris color is not always stable. From three to eighteen months, its iris can change color from blue to hazel. In any case, it depends on the genetic predisposition.
However, what is interesting is that children who are born with brown eyes are not exposed to such a radical change in the color of the iris. The color of their eyes will remain unchanged for almost the entire life.
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Injuries
Color changes in the iris also occur after injuries of the cervical spine, for example, as a result of an accident. In some cases, the nerve paths to the eye are damaged. In this damaged eye, the iris is slightly lighter compared to the second "healthy" eye.
Parents of newborn babies sometimes notice that their baby’s eyes are slightly different in color. According to doctors, this may be the result of childbirth. If the birth was difficult, and the child received minor injuries of the cervical spine, the nerve paths leading to one eye may also be damaged.
In this case, we can speak of a slight heterochromia of the iris. In the framework of heterochromia, one (affected) eye is slightly lighter than the other.
