Is colour blindness treatable ? or curable ?!
Question: do people who are colour deficient have improvement with the colours they see as they get older > go specila glasses work ?
Answers: do people who are colour deficient have improvement with the colours they see as they get older > go specila glasses work ?
It's not curable, being a genetically determined condition, nomally.
It doesn't change in severity with age, but people may become more practised at working with or around their colour vision anomaly
(Agree with your wife about the curtains, whatever they look like to you!)
There are rarer forms of colour vision disturbance associated with drug reactions, and brain tumours... and there the permanence would depend on dealing with the underlying cause, and whether permanent damage had been done to the retinal or neural processing.
Special glasses cannot restore normal vision but in certain cases particularly tinted spectacles can increase discrimination.
The x-chrom contact lens, which adds red to ONE eye, can also help some people better identify colours, but it does this by giving green shades an "lustre" which labels them as different, rather than colouring them as other people would see them.
The special glasses or contact lens aren't accepted by the FAA to bring a pilot up to standard, for example.
There are ways of momentarily using coloured filters that can help colour discrimination, for instance to decide if a tomato is green or red. (the tomato, ripening, is exactly on the line of most commonly confused colours)
But the effect wears off if the filter is worn for any length of time, as the eye adapts to it,
This can be used the opposite way round to make people colour blind for a minute or two, for demonstration purposes.
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Genetic, not treatable.
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Nope.
I've been colourblind since birth and have asked various GP's about this exact topic. From what i know, colour blindness CAN NOT be cured. However it can be altered with certain types of lenses in glasses but they are very expensive. And really they don't make that much of a difference anyway. Their main purpose is to alter the amount and direction of sunlight entering the retina so that the colours you see are a little bit corrected into what most other ppl see. But they don't always work and don't allow you to see perfectly. Plus, being colour blind myself, i've actually found some benefits with it (colour blind ppl adjust their contrast in darkness and light far quicker than others), and plus i've gotten used to it.
Generally this can not be cured, but in some cases you are able to have an Optometrists place a contact lenses that filter different colors to help you better distinguish the difference between colors. I would advise you to go to an Optometrist to see if they are able to help you with your specific condition cause there are many different levels of color blindness.
No.
No it is not, but most some colourblind people can learn how to distinguish whichever colours they are blind to, e.g. red/green.
If it is bothering you, certain products (e.g. glasses/contacts) can be purchased in order to help with this problem, but they are very expensive.
Basically, this problem is genetic and is not curable. Just try to deal with it, otherwise it will bug you for the rest of your life.