Color blindness is a wrong term, it is only deficiency. Basically so called color blind people can see colors, it’s not that they can’t see colors but yes they have problem in discriminating between similar shades of colors.
But usually these people don’t address any problem in their day to day life, it’s just that when they are shown Ishihara test chart they find it impossible to read the numbers written on it.
If you look at the Ishihara plate closely you will find that there are colorful dots in each page and the dots are so arranged that close by wavelength of color dots are placed in a row to confuse the brain.
So the people with impaired or defective cone cells find it challenging to tell the number. Initial challenge in the treatment is we want to show a color deficient person what he is not seeing,
I mean we are dealing with perception, so first question arises that unless a man can see what he is not seeing he won’t understand what he needs to see.
Let’s make it more simple, say I am telling apple is red and red is this. How will you a colorblind understand red is this, this is red colorblindness unless he is able to see it.
So, at first we screen the patient and once the test is over according to our findings we give them a particular filter and first show him what he is not seeing.
By this trial we come to know at the end of the treatment how well he would see with his own eyes unaided also the patients becomes happy to read the plates in just 2 minutes.
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After the test with filters we give them a “Color vision – Take Home Treatment” depending on their findings the treatment lasts from 40 days to 6 months. “Color vision – Take Home Treatment” is designed by keeping the requirement and scenario of the affected group.
All the people who are suffering from color deficiency are either students or working people, so for either of them it is not possible to stay at the centre for such a long duration of treatment.
So, keeping them in mind the treatment is designed in such a way that they can continue their studies or profession and side by side can get themselves treated for their future prospects.
The treatment is totally home based. Usually we call the patient to our centre once for 2 hours where we check the person who is color deficient and a custom made “Color vision – Take Home Treatment” is given to them which comprises of eye exercise, oral nutritional, antioxidant medicines, eye drops and diet chart.
Our cones need lot of energy to convert light into visual signals and in this process lot of debris is accumulated which impairs the color perception, we focus on clearing these debris with the help of medicines and thereby improving the color perception by reducing the stress on the cone cells. Even the cone cells need to perform autophagy which is also improved by the medicines.
“Color vision – Take Home Treatment” has vision exercise. It has nothing to do with physical exercise. We don’t give any physical exercise. Ocular exercise is given.
Since the eye is unable to discriminate between colors we stimulate the eyes and make it learn to see and discriminate colors depending on the defect.
