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Rhode Island Woman’s blood literally turns blue, Here’s how it happened

The woman was what doctors call cyanotic, term for seeming to have blueish skin/nails.

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Rhode Island Woman’s blood literally turns blue, Here’s how it happened

The term “blue blood” took on a new meaning for a 25-year-old woman who turned up at a Rhode Island hospital with blood that had turned navy blue.

The patient’s whose case published in a New England Journal of Medicine case study, told doctors she had used over-the-counter topical pain reliever to treat a toothache. “I’m weak and I’m blue,” she told the ER doctors.

The woman was what doctors call cyanotic, term for seeming to have blueish skin/nails.

Dr. Otis Warren, the ER doctor at Miriam hospital that night, diagnosed the woman with the problem as “acquired methemoglobinemia,” a rare blood disorder that causes people to produce an unusual amount of methemoglobin. With methemoglobinemia, the hemoglobin can carry oxygen, but cannot release it effectively to tissues, according to the National Library of Medicine.

Doctors administered an antidote called methylene blue, which improved her breathing and bluish skin tone within few minutes. Warren said the case spurred him to advise people to take care when using benzocaine, “People have no idea that something very specific and very dangerous can happen. It is not a mild side effect,” he said.

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