Brown Eyes With Blue Ring Around Them

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Brown eyes with blue ring around them.

I have blue eyes with light brown golden amber rings around my irises. I have hazel eyes i have brown around my pupil and yellow green on the outer and i have a dark ring surrounding it. I use to think my eyes were ether blue or green but apparently. The blue ring around your iris is probably a corneal arcus a cholesterol deposit in the eye.

Why is there a blue ring around brown eye. Junisjill on may 26 2020. Blue ring around irises of the eye pm1228 i have always had brown eyes with no other colors mixed in. The ring which can likewise appear gray or white appears to surround the iris of your eye however is in fact located within the cornea the transparent external layer of your eye.

Some people develop a gray white or bluish circle around all or part of the colored part of the eyeball called the cornea. The bluish ring is usually a intra corneal cholesterol deposit known as arcus senilis. Arcus senilis appears as a white gray or blue ring or arc around the cornea of the eye. Lately i have noticed and others have also told me that i have bluish rings around both irises of my brown eyes.

Is it weird to have brown eyes with a blue ring around it. I never knew why but now i do. It can also be referred to as arcus senilis in older people and arcus juvenilis in younger people. Lis on may 26 2020.

I think i have central heterochromia. I have dark brown eyes and i have a brown ring around them. It is darkest when we are at our healthiest and naturally fades with age and poor health. Sometimes referred to as a ring around the pupil the condition is officially known as corneal arcus.

My father has brown eyes with a blue ring around them my mother has the same eyes as i do but unlike mine that look greener in the light theirs looks brown and in dim light mine look brown and theirs looks hazel and my siblings. I have silverish eyes with a ring of brown in them. 49 years experience ophthalmology. Then as you get a little closer the ring is sometimes a blue grey color and sometimes a blue green color.

If you see a dark outline around your iris the colored part of your eye this is your limbal ring. My dad doesn t have it but my mom and my sister does my mother told me. It may indicate an increased cholesterol and your doctor should. Blue ring around brown eye.

I know exactly what you are talking about. The condition is usually seen in older adults but can affect people of all ages even appearing at birth.