“Is there a cure for color blindness?”
My son is 3 years old and is unable to identify colors. In a recent diagnosis, the doctor suggested that he may be color blind. Is there a cure for color blindness or is it a permanent condition?
14 Answers
there is a contact lens that can sometimes can help
its called an X CHROME lens
its called an X CHROME lens
It's congenital, so unfortunately, no cure. Most people adjust very well throughout their lives.
Working on a cure, but certain lens tints have been developed to help augment. Allow him to see closer to the true color.
No, there is no cure for color blindness. It is a hereditary trait.
Color Blindness is a permanent condition. There are non prescription glasses available that people with color blindness can wear that portray different colors as different brightnesses to allow them to distinguish between the different colors. When your child becomes of school age it is important for you to inform all of his teachers of the color blindness because if anything is color-coded he won’t get the lesson being taught.
Cure, no. At least, currently, there is no cure for color blindness. But the name is VERY misleading... Absolute color blindness (seeing no color at all) is VERY rare.
I tell my patients that it should be called color confusion. As what happens is the color sensors of the retina are stimulated in a way that a few colors are confused, but the majority of colors are fine. In my experience, there are only a few tasks/careers that people with color "blindness" cannot perform.
Most of the patients that I diagnose with color "blindness" are adults when I diagnose them, and they have lived 20 or 30 or 40 years and didn't even know they had a problem. So, although he may wear a combination of clothes that you may laugh at, he shouldn't have any serious issues.
There are also devices which can help people with color "blindness," such as http://enchroma.com/
I hope this helps.
Respectfully,
Patrick
I tell my patients that it should be called color confusion. As what happens is the color sensors of the retina are stimulated in a way that a few colors are confused, but the majority of colors are fine. In my experience, there are only a few tasks/careers that people with color "blindness" cannot perform.
Most of the patients that I diagnose with color "blindness" are adults when I diagnose them, and they have lived 20 or 30 or 40 years and didn't even know they had a problem. So, although he may wear a combination of clothes that you may laugh at, he shouldn't have any serious issues.
There are also devices which can help people with color "blindness," such as http://enchroma.com/
I hope this helps.
Respectfully,
Patrick
Morgan Graves
Optometrist
It is a permanent condition.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for color blindness. However, it is more correctly called color deficiency. Your son sees colors, just not as many variations as you may see. This will hinder him only if he wants to become a police officer or electrician or pilot. Most other career choices are okay. There are red lenses or contacts that can help them see some things better if they want to see pictures in the color vision screenings. They can adapt by reading the colors on crayons, pencils or markers when coloring. About 15%of men are color deficient. When he grows older, he can take a 100 hue test that can help him know exactly what colors and shades he has difficulty seeing.
Erin Lorraine McCleary
Optometrist
Unfortunately, there is no "cure" for color blindness. That being said, there are specialty lenses and tints that can be utilized to help distinguish colors when your son gets older. Many people with color deficiencies have full and unaffected lives. There may be some occupational limitations for those with color deficiencies such as electricians and pilots.
Unfortunately, there is not a cure for this condition. However, there are some options to help a person with this condition (contact lenses, typically). There are various kinds of color deficiencies so the type of deficiency would need to be determined before a recommended treatment could be determined.
Dr. David Johnson
Dr. David Johnson
Psycho-physical researchers at McGill University found that color vision can be developmental in some males not fully emerging until ages 12 and above. There are several marginal compensations for Gene linked colorblindness but it is currently not possible to fully restore color spectrum awareness (color vision).
There is no cure for color deficiency (color blindness), which is a hereditary condition that is passed on my mothers carrying the recessive sex-linked gene for color-blindness to their sons. Individuals who are color blind are really color deficient because they can discriminate only certain colors, but some colors they won't be able to tell the difference such as red, green, and/or blue. Enchroma glasses for individuals with a red or green color deficiency may help to better distinguish these colors.
Color blindness is an X linked recessive disorder which means males are affected, while females carry the gene. Your child needs to be tested on ishihara color blindness test and most likely, he has Red/Green blindness type! Nothing can be done to treat it. Patients will have a hard time distinguishing green from brown.
Color blindness is a genetic condition. Therefore there is no cure but we do have special lenses that help people with color blindness see color. Enchroma is one company that sells these glasses. My recommendation is to have your son evaluated by an optometrist to determine if he really is color defective. Since he is only 3 he may not know all the colors by name and maynot be color defective.
