DALTONISMO EN LOS ESTUDIANTES DE LAS ESCUELAS DEPORTIVAS DEL PROGRAMA “PARA LA VIDA” DEL GOBIERNO AUTÓNOMO DESCENTRALIZADO MUNICIPAL DE PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

The objective of the present work was to evaluate the color blindness in the students of the sports schools belonging to the program "For life" of the Autonomous Decentralized Government of Portoviejo, for which there was a population of three thousand children which had been valued by the Optometry students in connection hours since 2015. Color blindness is an alteration in which colors are not perceived in a normal way, the deficiency is hereditary and is transmitted by a recessive allele linked to the X chromosome. If a man inherits an affected X chromosome will be color blind, while women who they have two X chromosomes, they will be colorblind if both are affected, if only one will be a carrier and will be able to transmit it to the offspring. We identified 57 children with color blindness with the Ishihara test, of which 55 were male and 2 female; this is 1.9% of the total study population. These 57 children underwent another color assessment with the Farnsworth test to categorize the types and degree of color blindness of the students. The type of color blindness of greater percentage found was that of the Deuterán type of moderate degree. A survey was conducted of parents of students with color blindness to know the level of information about color blindness. In conclusion there is a considerable number of children with color blindness and the level of information about it is almost zero so it is recommended to continue with research and encourage the assessment of color vision to give a timely diagnosis and make known the alteration to the General population.