Can color-blindness be cured?

Question

I don't have color-blindness, but every time I get my eyes checked, the optomitrist does a number of tests, includung a color-blindness test, (you know, the one with the colored dots in a circle, some of which form the shape of a number). Why do they bother wasting their time doing this, if there is no cure? And why do they do it every time, if it's in my records that I didn't have it the last time they did the test? Can a person with normal color-eyesight become color blind?

Answer 1

They just do color-blindness testing as a part of routine testing. You have to think of the usefulness of knowing this information rather than if it's curable. The usefulness of this information can extend to driving: can you tell the difference between a red light and a green light?

A person with normal color-eyesight can become blind, just as a person who is color-blind can regain the ability to detect color, or so I've chosen to believe based on all the research I've done and my own experiences with a few things. Many eye doctors would tell you no, color-blindness cannot be cured. But do they practice alternative methods? No. Do they always know everything? No.

People need to try something first before they say it doesn't work, otherwise they're not being truly scientific. Real science means to try something first before determining whether you are sure of something. If you are taught that x implies y in school, and others tell you that x is y because science tells them so, that is NOT being scientific. How do they know for sure x is y unless they try it first? People (including doctors) are merely repeating to you what they've been taught to believe, rather than what they've tried. This is not true science.

Amblyopia (lazy eye) and color blindness are usually found together. Any eye doctor should know this. This suggests it's not genetic. Both can be cured simulateously, but to understand how, eye doctors would have to first understand the widely untold history of the optometry school. They are taught in school what the schools want them to believe. They cannot claim to know what happened.

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Answer 2

You are born either color-blind or not. I was born color-blind because my mom's dad is and my dad is. There's nothing you can do to prevent it and there is no cure. It's genetic. It's just a lack of color receptors or "cones". You can't add more cones in your eyeball. I don't even know what the colors I don't see look like so I don't even care. I think I see fine but everybody makes fun of me because they can't believe that I don't see some of the colors they see. I've never known any different and that's just the way it is. The doctor just likes to know if you have it or not but your right, it is kind of pointless to test for it.

Answer 3

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals

There is generally no treatment to cure color deficiencies, however, certain types of tinted filters and contact lenses may help an individual to distinguish different colors better. Additionally, software has been developed to assist those with visual color difficulties.

Answer 4

Colour-blindness is a disorder caused by a mutated chromosome. Usually these symptoms appear when the child starts seeing, and I've never heard of anyone developing colour-blindness showing up later on in life when the person has never had any symptoms. If you're really wondering why a colour-blindness test is performed at every check-up, you should ask your opthamologist why he/she always performs the test.

Answer 5

No, it can't be cured. They do the test to make sure you aren't colour blind. And, yes, you can get it sometime in the middle of your life, so they always check.

Answer 6

Maybe, if they discover the problem right away. That's why they do the test, because if you wait too long, there is no cure.

Answer 7

color blindness is not curable. They test because it is part of the eye test. go figure

Answer 8

No It cant

Answer 9

NO.