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Are out there some real pictures of blue people (you know.. the disease...)?
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#25033. Asked by student. (Dec 09 02 11:15 PM)
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sequoianoir
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Do you mean the condition known as Raynaud's syndrome or Raynaud's disease.
Raynaud's phenomenon affects the fingers and toes, it can also affect the ears and nose, turning them blue !
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Actually, the condition is no huge appearence problem, as I have it...the bad thing is the arthitus that can accompany it. In the winter, or whenever it's cold the skin around the toes and feet can turn white or reddish (and sometimes purpley) because of lack of blood flow. The blood vessels constrict beacuse of the cold weather, causing discolouration. Get your facts straight about 'blue people' buddy...
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McGruff
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Argyria is a disease caused by the ingestion of silver compounds. The most dramatic effect of argyria is that the skin is coloured blue or bluish-grey. The condition is believed to be permanent. Most recent cases are due to the consumption of colloidal silver as an alternative medicine.
 http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
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student
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I mean the thing that there was this guy, and went to the mountains somewhere, and married someone, and they were carriers of this disease... and the children had their blood messed up and were blue.... and they inbreeded with eah other... and soon the whole populatioin in that isolated mountain village were blue... but they were outbread and now the blue people are very very rare......... THATS what i mean.... and then this guy invented a cure...
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McGruff
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Okay, you want the Blue People of Kentucky. Here's a page with lots of links:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/fugate.html
Last time, we asked what was so strange about the descendants of Martin Fugate, who carried a rare recessive gene capable of causing a striking but otherwise harmless physical anomaly. The answer is that Fugate's family carried a recessive gene that retarded the body's production of the enzyme diaphorase, which, among other things, gives blood its red color. When both spouses carried this gene, their children had blue blood, and thus blue skin. During the first half of the 20th century, when the Fugates resided in a secluded Appalachian valley in Kentucky, many of Martin Fugate's descendants gave birth to blue children, due to excessive inbreeding. In the early 1960s, Madison Cawein, a University of Kentucky hematologist, successfully treated many of the so-called 'Blue People' with, ironically, methylene blue.
http://www.rkpiech.tripod.com/Tips/brain_food.htm
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