Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Color blind
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue May 23 18:50:03 2006
References: <23eddc123ef3b5.23ef3b523eddc1@shaw.ca>

On May 23, 2006, at 6:34 PM, GREG LORENZO wrote:

> Lawrence Zeitlin writes:
>>
>> I've heard of red-green color blindness, a very common condition, and
>> blue-yellow color blindness, a much rarer condition, but never
>> blue-green color blindness. Have you ever had your color blindness
>> condition professionally diagnosed or do you just have trouble
>> matching blue and green colors?
>>
>
> Technically, I am "red/green colour blind" (diagnosed and the most  
> common form). My difficulty is distinguishing between blues/greens,  
> pinks/purples. But mostly between shades of blue and green. BTW, I  
> was not diagnosed until after I took a wicked dose of antibiotics  
> when hospitalized 20 years ago with septic shock. So I'm not sure  
> whether  it's Mom's fault (i.e. genetic) or from the antibiotic.


I have never seen or heard of this sort of side effect from  
antibiotics, but I'd be very glad to look into it further...

and ask my brilliant associates.....

Steve Barbour


> Definately not improving with time though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
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In reply to: Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] Re: Color blind)