Dr Jay Neitz is a professor ofophthalmology at the University of Washington, Seattle (United States). For 30 years, this healthcare professional has been studying color blindness, a vision defect that affects an average of 8% of men and 0.5% of women. In France, it is estimated that there are approximately 2,600,000 color blind.
Small reminder: color blindness (also called “dyschromatopsia” in medical jargon) is characterized by poor differentiation of colors. Indeed, this handicap particularly affects the cones, cells of the retina whose role is to “separate” the light which arrives on the eye in 3 colors (green, blue and red) which are then nuanced by others. specialized cells.
A daily handicap
This genetic disorder comes in different forms: for example, people with achromatopsia see the world in black and white, those with deuteranomaly have difficulty seeing shades of green, and those with deuteranopia do not differentiate. not red from green.
To understand the reality of this latest infirmity, Dr. Jay Neitz then had the idea of posting certain images on his website, retouched to match the vision of a person suffering from deuteranopia. The result is startling: in the photo above, would you be able to determine which piece of meat is the most cooked? Hard ! Find more images of Dr Jay Neitz on the Daily Mail.
“40% of elementary school students who are color blind do not know it,” explains the doctor on his website. It is important to do prevention, and especially not to discriminate against these people. “
Innovation: glasses for color blind.