Color Blindness in Clinton in Clinton, CT | Clinton Eye Associates (2024)

FAQs

What kind of doctor do you see for color blindness? ›

If you or your child has color blindness, it's important to learn the type and severity. Talk to an eye care provider (optometrist or ophthalmologist) about the nature of the condition and how it may affect you.

Your Ophthalmologist might also refer to it as colour vision deficiency. On average, the colour blindness treatment can cost you Rs 1 Lakh but that depends from patient to patient. Only after the diagnosis, it can be clear what treatment plan will suit you the best and how much will be the treatment cost.

The life expectancy of a color-blind person is normal. There are no other abnormalities associated with the condition.

Your eye doctor can usually use a simple test to tell you if you have color vision deficiency. During the most common type of test, your eye doctor will show you a circle made of many different colored dots. The circle has a shape inside it that's also made of dots — like a number, a letter, or a squiggly line.

Color blind glasses

Clip-on versions of these lenses average about $100 per pair. Color blind glasses are not usually covered by health insurance as they're not considered medically necessary, but you may be able to cover them through an FSA or HSA program.

Your eye doctor can tell if you have color vision deficiency using a test called the color plate test. If the results aren't clear, your eye doctor may do other tests.

About Colorblindness/Color Deficiency

Although considered only a minor disability, slightly fewer than 10% of all men suffer some form of colorblindness (also called color deficiency), so this audience is very widespread. Colorblind users are unable to distinguish certain color cues, often red versus green.

So color-blindness glasses don't “fix” color-blindness, but they can make it easier for people — color-blind or not — to tell colors apart. It should be noted that because there are different types of color-blindness, for some people, these glasses won't do anything at all.

For example, wearing a red contact lens or red-tinted glasses could help better distinguish colors. For some people, laser eye surgery could resolve the problem, as with cataracts. By removing cataracts, vision and colors are restored. While there is no cure currently for color blindness, new research is ongoing.

Your color vision may also get worse as you get older, especially if you get cataracts (cloudy areas in the lens of the eye).

What are 5 symptoms of color blindness? ›

Colour blind people face many difficulties in everyday life which normally sighted people just aren't aware of. Problems can arise in even the simplest of activities including choosing and preparing food, gardening, sport, driving a car and selecting which clothes to wear.

Vitamin A deficiency may also cause color blindness. Color blindness may be a side effect of prescription drug use. For example, red–green color blindness can be caused by ethambutol, a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Blue–yellow color blindness can be caused by sildenafil, an active component of Viagra.

A set of images called the Ishihara color plates is one of the most common and reliable color blind tests. Simply look at the images, which have numbers embedded in dots of color. The numbers are a different color than the background.

Once your suspicions have been aroused make an appointment to see an optometrist and obtain a formal diagnosis. Most optometrists will provide a free eye test for children. All children should have regular eye tests anyway, but make sure you ask specifically for colour blindness to be tested.