Color Blindness Symptoms

COLOR BLINDNESS

DESCRIPTION

Color blindness or more accurately, poor or deficient color vision – is an inability to see the difference between certain colors. Though many people commonly use the term color blind for this condition, true color blindness – in which everything is seen in shades of black and white – is rare

Symptoms –

Different shades of red and green

Different shades of blue and yellow

Any colors

Risk factors –

Family history

Certain eye disease

Certain health problems

Certain medications

Common in white people

Diagnosis and test –

Color plate test

Anomaloscope test

Hue test

Treatment –

There is no cure for color blindness but special glasses and contact lenses can help.