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Open Discussion Area / How to test for color blindness?
December 20, 2023, 03:58:21 AM
Color blindness testing can be performed for all subjects who need to accurately recognize colors such as: drivers, electricians, designers, painters, technicians, marketing staff... due to their specific job abilities. color recognition. Difficulty distinguishing colors can greatly affect your work. Color blindness is mainly hereditary and appears at birth, so many people cannot detect that they are color blind.
1. Qualitative color blindness test (Enchroma, Ishihara)
The most used qualitative test for color blindness is the Ishihara color vision test. This method was invented and published by Japanese ophthalmologist Shinobu Ishihara in 1917.
Specifically, Ishihara plate testing is a standard and highly accurate method. The Ishihara plate helps test for red-green color blindness. The Ishihara test consists of 38 clear pictures created by unique and colorful random dots.
The simple way to check is to look at the board and say the visible number. Each plate will contain information that people with color blindness will see a different result than normal people. Based on the results, the doctor will conclude what color blindness you have. Some special plates are used to diagnose color blindness in children who cannot yet read numbers or letters.
Based on the Ishihara color blind test, the Enchroma color blindness test determines the type and degree of color blindness a person has. This is a test created by professor Shinobu Ishihara at the University of Tokyo, combined with a computer adaptive algorithm to measure the type and degree of color blindness. The test has modes for adults and children from 5 years old, with 3 main types of color blindness: green blindness, red-green color blindness and yellow-green color blindness.
2. Quantitative color blindness test
Quantitative color blindness test aims to analyze in more detail color blindness and the patient's ability to accurately recognize colors. The most commonly used quantitative test for color blindness is the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 color test.
The test consists of 4 trays containing many small discs of different colors. The tester needs to arrange the colored discs in ascending order of color. To get accurate results, the test should be done in a place with natural light, the colored discs should be replaced regularly and numbered on the base to make checking results easier. The test helps detect color blindness and its severity.
3. Other methods
In addition to the above two methods, there is also an online color blindness test. The online color blindness test is a version of the Ishihara qualitative color blindness test. However, online color blindness testing makes image quality unstable and can lead to errors. Therefore, to get the most accurate results, see an ophthalmologist to test for color blindness under appropriate lighting.
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The analysis of color is mainly due to the cone cells concentrated in the central fossa of the retina. When these cells lose the ability to distinguish colors, it causes color blindness.
A pair of sex chromosomes (XX in females and XY in males) are involved in the mutations that cause color blindness, an inherited disease. People with color blindness have a mutation or lack of a gene on the X chromosome, which causes a disorder of the light-sensitive cells in the eye that are needed to distinguish colors.
People with color blindness have a reduced ability to perceive colors. The risk of color blindness in men is higher than in women. There are many factors that cause color blindness, including:
Congenital: The patient loses the ability to see blue or yellow.
Due to side effects of drugs: Some drugs have the ability to affect such things as cardiovascular drugs, blood pressure, infections, neurological disorders, etc.
Due to complications when suffering from some chronic diseases: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's,
Due to aging,  eyesight and the ability to distinguish colors also decrease with increasing age, causing color blindness in the elderly.
Manifestations of color blindness
People with color blindness often do not know they have it because they can still distinguish other colors but cannot distinguish certain colors.
Mild degree, it is often difficult to distinguish colors such as green from red and blue from yellow.
The severity does not distinguish the colors from each other.
You can check your status with the color blind test tool. Online application, free, high accuracy.