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CNN is running a story about a woman who used a high dose of topical benzocaine and her blood turned blue. She went to the ER and the doctor diagnosed "acquired methemoglobinemia," a reaction caused by certain medicines that stops blood from carrying oxygen to tissue.
The story goes on "It's fitting that the antidote is a brilliant blue, too. Methylene blue returns a missing electron to the hemoglobin molecule that restores oxygen levels and helps release oxygen back into tissue, he said."
It's kind of funny that I have both benzocaine and methylene blue in my medicine cabinet.
A numbing medicine turned a woman's blood blue - CNN
The story goes on "It's fitting that the antidote is a brilliant blue, too. Methylene blue returns a missing electron to the hemoglobin molecule that restores oxygen levels and helps release oxygen back into tissue, he said."
It's kind of funny that I have both benzocaine and methylene blue in my medicine cabinet.
A numbing medicine turned a woman's blood blue - CNN