What to do if you are color blind

Everyone should know about color blindness. This common eye disease has many patients. This is a congenital color vision disorder. The most common color blindness is red and green. Some colors cannot be distinguished well, which has a great impact on our daily life. There are many types of color blindness. Some patients are completely color blind, and some are red blind. What should we do about color blindness?

People with color blindness will feel a lot of psychological pressure and don’t know what to do. Having such a disease will have a lot of impact on their daily lives. They must receive treatment in time and correct any vision problems in a timely manner.

Let's see what to do with color blindness

Clinical manifestations

Color blindness is divided into total color blindness and partial color blindness (red color blindness, green color blindness, blue-yellow color blindness, etc.). Color weakness includes total color weakness and partial color weakness (red weakness, green weakness, blue-yellow weakness, etc.).

1. Achromatopsia

It is a complete cone cell dysfunction, which is the opposite of night blindness (rod cell dysfunction). Patients prefer darkness and are afraid of light, which manifests as day blindness. There is only a difference in light and dark, but no difference in color, and the red appears dark and the blue appears bright. In addition, there are symptoms such as poor vision, amblyopia, central scotoma, and pendulum nystagmus. It is the most severe form of color vision deficiency and is less common.

2. Red-color blindness

Also known as the first color blindness. The patient is mainly unable to distinguish the color red, and cannot distinguish red from dark green, blue from purple-red, and purple. Green is often seen as yellow, purple is seen as blue, and green and blue are mixed as white.

3. Deuteranopia

Also known as second color blindness, patients cannot distinguish between light green and dark red, purple and cyan, purple and gray, and perceive green as gray or dark black. In clinical practice, red-green color blindness and green-color blindness are collectively referred to as red-green color blindness, which is more common. The color blindness we usually talk about usually refers to red and green color blindness.

4. Blue-yellow color blindness

Also known as third color blindness. The patient confuses blue and yellow colors, but can distinguish red and green, which is rare.

5. Panchromatosis

Also known as red, green, blue and yellow weak. The color vision impairment is lower than total color blindness, and there is no abnormality in vision or other complications of total color blindness. It is possible to distinguish objects when their colors are dark and bright; but it is difficult and rare to distinguish objects when their colors are light and unsaturated.

treat

1. Acupoints and acupressure

Acupressure is placed 2 cm below the center of the eyeball to improve eye function. When doing acupressure, press firmly with your index finger for 6 seconds while exhaling. You can do acupressure with your eyes open or closed.

When acupressure is performed with eyes open, the color can be clearly judged; when acupressure is performed with eyes closed, abnormal vision and pseudomyopia can be treated. If you suffer from strong color abnormalities, you should focus on pressing under your eyes. Continuing this acupressure will gradually eliminate color vision abnormalities.

2. Color blindness correction glasses

The principle of color blindness correction glasses is to apply a special coating on the lenses based on complementary color antagonism to produce a cut-off wavelength effect, which can transmit long wavelengths and reflect short wavelengths. Wearing color blind glasses can make it possible for people who were previously unable to recognize color pictures to be recognized correctly. Achieve the effect of correcting color vision impairment. Color blindness correction glasses are divided into contact lens type and ordinary wide frame type.

What should we do about color blindness? People with color blindness should be able to actively seek treatment. In fact, color blindness is not a big deal. Don't take this disease too seriously. If it can be treated well, it will not have much impact on our lives. Generally, people with color blindness can live a normal life. It depends on whether you are strong enough.