Gavini Pediatrics - Color Vision Testing

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Color Vision Testing What does color vision testing consist of? Color vision testing checks to see if a person can see normal colors or if there are any decreased color viewing abilities. Such decreased abilities would present as color confusion or a washing out or desaturation of some colors. Men have a higher instance of color blindness than women. Color vision testing can be as simple as going to: colorvisiontesting.com This simple test will let you know if you have any color viewing deficiencies.
What will color vision testing tell me? Color vision testing will help you and your doctor to determine what kind of color deficiency you have. There are many reasons for color deficiency, the most common are related to deficiencies in certain types of cones, or persons missing these cones all together. Some other causes of color deficient vision are: Cataracts Parkinson’s Disease Kallmann's Syndrome Tiagabine for Epilepsy Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
What is the most common form of colorblindness? Red-Green color blindness is the most common form of color blindness and is a sex-linked trait. What this means is that in the case of red-green color blindness, the deficiency is carried on the X chromosome. So for a woman to have red-green color blindness she must have inherited two deficient X chromosomes, one from her father and one from her mother. Because women have two X chromosomes, they are less likely to have red-green color blindness, whereas men only receive one X chromosome from their mother. So if their mother is a carrier, then they have a 50/50 chance of having red-green color blindness, however if there mother has red-green color blindness, then they too will have is as a deficient X chromosome is all they can receive from her. Some other causes of color deficiency or blindness are aging, and injury to the areas of the brain where vision processing happens.
Treatment Currently there is no cure for color blindness, however research for gene therapies to cure color blindness are on-going. However they have yet come into human trials. The majority of people adapt to their color blindness without issue. Getting a diagnosis at an early age will be helpful to children with color blindness as much of early education curriculum relies heavily on color. There are also special lenses that can enhance color perception. These lenses are filters that can come in either contacts or glasses. A limited number of eye care practitioners carry these lenses in the United States and other countries, so if you are interested in them you will have to get a referral from your current eye care professional.