Blue, I'm Blue...
Thread - Blue Skin
On 4/10/2002, Zero Sum posted:
Can anybody describe the mechanism
involved?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html
Senate candidate blue -- literally
GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) --Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has
turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect
him from disease.
Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor,
said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions
might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires
in a glass of water.
His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.
Jann
O'Connor responded:
A few
years ago my mother had a bypass and a mitral valve replaced. Her heart
would not settle down and she now has an implanted defibrillator.
After
she left hospital she was put on amiodorone (I'm not sure why). She
was warned that while she was on this medication she should not go in the
sun as it would turn her blue. We thought - oh a bit blue. My
mum avoided the sun and eventually went off the medication with no "blue"
effects.
She has
regularly attended information / support meetings for people with defibrillators
and came home from a meeting one day with an amazing story.
A man
had turned up who was on amiodorone and who had ignored the advice about
going in the sun. She reported that "He looked just like a Smurf."
That blue!!!
For that reason
Zero's question piqued my interest.
Below is a site on Argyria - the effect of medications such as amiodorone.
Silver is also mentioned.
But, I also found another interesting medical oddity - people who are blue
due to genetics. Fascinating...
Argyria - Medicine
and chemical induced blueness:
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic595.htm
Methemoglobin
- Inherited blueness
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/peds/pidl/hemeonc/metheme.htm
The Blue
People of Kentucky
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/blkysc82.html
Gerald Cairnes replied:
I don't know about this case, will view the article later, but silver forms
highly insoluble protienates which were the basis for treating burns victims
at one time and that turned them black but that was topical. I guess if the
dose is not so high you could get a blue colouration. As far as I recollect
there is no way of removing the discolouration either so perhaps he better
find another occupation singing the "blues"! :-)
There are records of people with argentosis but I don't have any at present.
It sounds like this guy has been stupid enough to consume colloidal silver
solution peddled by the health shops and the wierdo alternatives'. I have
said it before I reckon I could make millions by preparing colloidal silver
and selling it at enormous margins but the Indians and others do that already
and poor suckers believe them.
