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>Though today Benjy and most of the Fugate family descendants have lost their blue coloring, the tint still comes out in their skin when they are cold or flush
by prvc 5y ago
>Though today Benjy and most of the Fugate family descendants have lost their blue coloring, the tint still comes out in their skin when they are cold or flush with anger.
I wish they had included at least one photograph of this.
- colordrops 5y agoThey do, toward the end of the article.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoHe does not look blue.
- colordrops 5y agoHe doesn't look too blue at all, that is true. They say that most of the color faded as he got older. If you look closely you can see a tinge of blue on his face.
- silisili 5y agoI went to college in Kentucky with two of the Fugates, twins in fact. Sorry to report, neither were blue in color.
- diggan 5y agoMakes sense, seems like in the 1960s they came up with a solution for removing the blue color, so most likely if they have the recessive gene, they are taking those pills. > Using research collected from studies of isolated Alaskan Eskimo populations, Cawein was able to conclude that the Fugates carried a rare hereditary blood disorder that causes excessive levels of methemoglobin in their blood. > Cawein devised a cure for this disorder: more blue. Counterintuitively, the best chemical for activating the body’s process of turning methemoglobin to hemoglobin is methylene blue dye. The Fugates he treated ingested this dye and within a few minutes, the blue coloration of their skin disappeared, and their skin turned pink. > As long as they kept ingesting pills of the substance regularly, these blue people of Kentucky could live their lives normally.
- silisili 5y agoVery well could be. I'd never heard of it at the time I knew them, so didn't know to look or even ask. I can't confirm they are direct lineage or anything, though. I only know they were Fugate from eastern KY. It's not a particularly common name, nor is eastern KY particularly well populated so figure they are related in some manner.
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- shoto_io 5y agoIf you Google the last name you’ll find some pictures
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoI think those are black and white with false colour
- slim 5y agosearch for methemoglobinemia
- jacksonkmarley 5y agoSame. In fact the obvious question in the absence of photographs is how blue they really were.
- sam345 5y agohttps://allthatsinteresting.com/fugate-family-blue-people-of-kentucky https://allthatsinteresting.com/fugate-family-blue-people-of...
- mdp2021 5y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=fugates+blue+skin&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fugates+blue+skin&t=h_&iax=images&...
- thinkloop 5y agohttps://s.abcnews.com/images/Health/abc_blue_man_thg_130925_4x3_384.jpg https://s.abcnews.com/images/Health/abc_blue_man_thg_130925_...
- tomjakubowski 5y agoThat's argyria from taking colloidal silver. Methemoglobinemia looks far less severe: https://blogs.brown.edu/emergency-medicine-residency/citw-14-the-blue-man/ https://blogs.brown.edu/emergency-medicine-residency/citw-14...