A 25-year-old woman has given new meaning to the expression after she turned up at a Rhode Island hospital with blood that had turned navy blue.
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According to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, the woman told doctors that she had used a topical pain reliever for a toothache.
She woke the next morning and took herself to hospital, telling doctors: “I’m weak and I’m blue.”.
The woman was what doctors call cyanotic – the medical term for seeming to have blueish skin or nails.
With methemoglobinemia, the hemoglobin can carry oxygen, but cannot release it effectively to tissues, according to the National Library of Medicine.
The woman told Warren she hadn’t used the entire bottle though it was apparent, Warren said, she’d “used a whole lot of it”. »
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