The mystery of blue-skinned people

Blue people, it sounds like it is only in fictional movies, but those people are completely real, there are very few things. And so far, science has only recorded the mysterious phenomenon in a family in America.

In the 1950s, doctors at the Regional Hospital of Lexinton (Kentucky, USA) were surprised to give emergency treatment to a patient named Benjamin . They could not explain why the boy's skin was blue. Doctors think he may be in severe anemia, but tests show that it is not.

The doctors were even more surprised when she heard Benjamin's grandmother say: "Have you ever heard of the Fugate family? Are we the 6th generation descendants?" According to the old lady's documents, they learned about the most strange family in human history.

In 1820 in Kentucky state, public opinion talked about an unprecedented phenomenon: A family with blue people. Mr. Martin Fugate, a French immigrant, settled down in Troublesome Creek Hill and married Elizabet Smith . They have 7 children, of which 4 have the skin of the sky. The children of the Fugate family are fully developed in terms of intellect and health, almost without any disease. Later they also married, gave birth to children and lived a good life (80-90 years). Researchers at the time predicted that green people may be linked to cardiovascular disease or blood disorders, but no one can tell.

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Look for answers about people with blue skin

In the 1960s, Madison Cawein , a young hematologist of Ketucky Academy, decided to find a solution to this rare phenomenon. He went to Troublesome Creek area to turn the file over and pair the stories of the green family.

Cawein has received the help of a nurse named Ruth Pendergrass, who has been watching the continent for many years. She accidentally discovered a green woman living in the area and persuaded this person to go to a medical facility to do tests for research.

Cawein met that woman - one of Fugate's family. He discovered an interesting thing, she did not suffer from cardiovascular disease and lung disorders as many people have identified.

After eliminating the association between cardiovascular disease, lungs . for this person's skin color, Cawein decided to focus on the genetic disorder in blood. He began his search by rebuilding the Fugate family's genealogies and discovering the Fugate family's sixth generation of 13 blue-skinned people.

Special skin of a person with Met-H.

Blood test results show that high levels of methemoglobin (MetHb) cause blue skin (because methemoglobin is green). Red blood cells are cells rich in oxygen, so their structure is often at risk of oxidation and is very sensitive to oxidation processes. Therefore, erythrocytes are easily damaged. To avoid this, red blood cells often have the process of forming MetHb, while also regularly reducing MetHb to Hb. This ensures that the amount of peripheral blood methb is always low. One day, there is usually about 3% of the self-oxidizing hemoglobin to Methb. But the concentration of methb in the blood is just under 1%.

Cawein said that in green people, this metabolic disorder produces abnormal MetHb rates. Cawein used another method to correct MetHb metabolism. He injected methylene into the vein of a green man named Patrick. The strange thing happened, after just a few minutes, Patrick's blue complexion became pink as usual. Thirteen people of the Fugate family were given methylene capsule and after a while their skin changed color.

The mystery of blue sky discovered by hematologist Cawein is caused by a metabolic disorder in MetHb and Hb in the blood . This is a genetic disorder, people with this condition are completely normal.

Luna Pacy, the mother of Benjamine boy, is in the fifth generation of the Fugate family. She lived until 84 years old and gave birth to 13 children with blue skin, of which the last green was Benjamine. The story of blue people used to be put on a television show with a lot of people about strange things. The mystery of the Fugate family with blue skin has closed after more than a century of existence.

Blue-skinned people no longer appear in the past, which doesn't mean that the blue skin-inducing genes have completely disappeared, maybe these recessive genes are still hiding in some people and "lurking. Arabic "chance to come back.