Changing the color of your eyes during pregnancy. Children also have blue eyes. This is why netizens need education
Oct 22, 2025
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She appeared on a famous medical podcast and claimed that during pregnancy, melanin in brown eyes was removed and changed to blue eyes, which would automatically rearrange her DNA and inherit the same eye color in the child.
She wanted to have a blue-eyed daughter"I explained why I chose the procedure.
Criticistic reactions poured in online to the remarks.
Netizens are saying, "My kids are hairless because I also had hair removal before I got pregnant."" That's why they need to be educated." I'm posting sarcastic comments on my back.
In fact, the amount and distribution of melanin pigments in the iris determine the color of the eyes.
If there is a lot of melanin, it becomes brown or black brown eyes, and if it is less, it becomes blue, gray, and green eyes.
Typical methods of changing eye color include artificial iris insertion, laser iris pigmentation, and recently kerato pigmentation (cornea tattoo), which injects biocompatible pigment into the cornea.
Some of these are fast enough to turn brown eyes into blue eyes in a matter of minutes. However, these procedures do not alter DNA and have nothing to do with the inheritance of eye color to the fetus. Experts point out that the woman's claim is scientifically groundless.
It should also be used for aesthetic correction in patients with abnormal eye appearances due to corneal opacity, traumatic eye damage, and birth iris defects""The cosmetic procedure may cause various side effects such as infection, keratitis, corneal edema, corneal opacity, vision loss or blindness, pigment diffusion or discoloration." he warned.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
