Colorblind man sees daughter for first time

A father-of-one from New Hudson Michigan, who is colorblind, was surprised with a special pair of glasses that allowed him to see the color of his college sports team. For the first time, Travis Brindley, realised that trees, grass and the shirt that he was wearing were all green. However, emotions overtook him when he took a look at his young daughter Kyler and her hazel-green eyes for the first time reduced him to tears.

Arindley’s wife Annaliese explained that her husband was born colorbling to the colors of red and green. Because Brindley compensated so well, his parent’s did not discover that he had the condition till he was a teenager.

Annaliese decided to give her husband a pair of EnChroma sunglasses, that filter and separate muddled colors using a technique called chromatic contrast enhancement.

The lenses add a new dimension to vision and allow colorblind people to see the colors separately.

The development of EnChroma glasses came in 2010 and allowed dozens of colorblind people to see a full range of colors for the first time.

In the United States, around eight percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness.

People who have color blindness have a problem with the cones in their retina.

Men are much more likely to be colorblind than women because the genes responsible for the most common, inherited color blindness are on the X chromosome, according to the National Eye Institute.