Posted on 08/30/2008 4:15:16 PM PDT by penelopesire
Just breaking on Fox. Not much info yet. People walking into are hospitals in St. Louis sick, skin turning blue and with breathing problems. Hospitals on Lock down.
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They just mentioned it on Fox News....sounds very scary folks!
Trial run in preparation for getting Biden off the ticket to make room for Hillary. They know they're in trouble.
Wouldn’t affect someone that fast... Perhaps the respiratory distress is from being freaked out about being exposed to a white, powdery substance?
Yeah. It skipped over the seaboard and landed square at the Arch.
Then everyone turned purple, and the hospitals closed.
Weird, hunh?
Man Claims Skin Treatment Turned Face Permanent Blue
Thursday, December 20, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317564,00.html
Paul Karason says his face turned blue after using a silver extract to treat dermatitis
Paul Karason puts a whole new spin on “feeling blue.” For more than a decade, the 57-year-old has been living with a blue face.
Fourteen years ago, Karason developed a bad case of dermatitis, which results in swollen, reddened and itchy skin. He started self-medicating, using a treatment called colloidal silver, which is made by extracting silver from metal.
Click here to hear the blue man tell his story (VIDEO)
Often touted by manufacturers as a cure-all, colloidal silver usually is found in a liquid form. Looking for relief, Karason drank the concoction and rubbed it on his skin — something the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recommend.
His skin slowly turned blue.
“The change was so gradual that I didn’t perceive it and other people around me likewise,” said Karason. “It wasn’t until a friend I hadn’t seen in several months came by my parent’s place to see me and he asked me ‘what did you do?.’”
The FDA does not consider colloidal silver safe or effective to treat any disease or condition. In fact, taking it could have serious side effects, such as:
— Argyria — which is an irreversible blue-gray discoloration of your skin, nails and gums
— Seizures and other neurological problems
— Kidney damage
— Indigestion
— Headaches
— Fatigue
— Skin irritation
Karason, who recently moved from Oregon to Madera, Calif., said it hasn’t been easy living with blue skin.
“I do tend to avoid public places as much as I can,” he said.
Karason made the move in hopes of fitting in a little better.
“I hope that they just accept me,” he said, “And I think that will happen here. Where I was, I rather doubt it would have. This is different kind of community here.”
Karason’s girlfriend, Jackie Northrup, said she doesn’t even notice his skin color any more.
“The only time now I really think about it or notice it is if we’re out in public and people start staring,” she said.
So far, Karason hasn’t sought any medical attention for his condition. When he was asked if he’s still drinking the colloidal silver, he said yes, but much less.
People turning blue. Lack of O2? Cyanide?
In a hospital that could be any number of things.
could be Blue Men Group revival?
Home made meth?
BlueMan Group?
I’m no medico, but doesn’t cyanotic poisoning do the same? I think it inhibits oxygen uptake. Probably lots of other stuff does the same thing, but I believe in caution . . .
Rove’s weather machine can do it all.
This is not from ingesting colloidal silver.
Hypoxia.
A form of cyanide. Keeps the blood vessels from absorbing oxygen.
That sounds like it was just a few people for crying out loud. Fox made it sound like they were coming to the hospital in mass. (eye roll)
Thanks for the links everyone. Sorry to be an alarmist.
Ricin: Breathing problems, lips, skin may turn blue.
Came here to say this.
Sounds like cyanide exposure to me. The blue skin comes from the inability of the blood to carry oxygen. Both sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide are common industrial chemicals and are white (I’m sure about NaCN being white). That said, there are a lot of other chemicals with similar effects.
There was some person that tried to commit suicide by ingesting liquid pesticide. When brought into the emergency room, hospital workers were sickened by toxic fumes.
Is that what you were thinking of?
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