Color deficiencies are not always genetic and it is true they cannot be cured, however depending on the severity and type of color deficiency, you may fit with contact lenses or glasses to help you distinguish between the different shades (they will not completely correct a color deficiency)
They have a few different products advertised on the Internet, but this is something you should discuss with your local eye doctor. They should be able to refer you to an eye doctor that specializes in color deficiencies.
Here is some more info on color defects:
Color vision defects are either congenital or acquired. While hereditary congenital color defects are almost always "red/green", affecting 8% of males and 0.5% of females. Acquired defects are more often of the "blue/yellow" variety and affect males and females equally and can be caused by macular or optic nerve disease.
-Most congenital color vision defects affect both eyes equally. where as acquired more often affects one eye more then the other.
-Congenital defects you are born with and is constant in type and with its severity throughout life.
-Acquired color vision defects generally vary in type and severity, depending on the location and source of the ocular pathology.
2007-08-21 02:48:35
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answered by Anonymous
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The conventional answer would be that colour vision can't be fully corrected by any means, and although there is a mechanism, almost a trick, which many people have found useful, it is rarely done in glasses as it requires a different coloured lens on each side, which would be cosmetically very odd.
More often it's done with a single contact lens:
"X-Chrom
A colour filter 74% water content soft lens intended to improve colour discrimination when worn by people who have a red-green colour deficiency
Product overview
By monocular use of the X-Chrom lens, one eye receives a different luminance and chromatic signal from the other eye and through a process of retinal rivalry a wider range of colours can be interpreted.
Product features
X-Chrom lenses have a dark red pupil
Pupil diameter may be varied to suit individual needs
Available in 74% water content material to any dimensions "
(From manufacturer's catalogue)
But it's not a simple cure.
What this different vision is reporting has to be adjusted to and learnt, to a varying degree for each individual.
It may be that technology is just beginning to make this answer out-of-date, however. (though I've not completely dropped all suspicions of "quackery")
Consider these two sites below:
One in Baltimore, one in Australia
They seem to be offering *everything*:
2007-08-21 08:14:41
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answered by Pedestal 42 7
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There are no glasses that correct color vision. If you are color blind - its genetic that is passed from your mother and usually runs in men. But there is nothing out there that I know of that can correct color vision.
2007-08-21 02:15:16
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answered by LindyN 3
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I don't know that they make them for color vision.
2007-08-21 02:12:29
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answered by kys 4
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Google "ColorView". They make glasses for your problem.
2007-08-24 09:59:33
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answered by Jeffrey K 1
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