Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Green Blood

Its not just Vulcan who have green blood ! Surgeons discovered this amazing phenomenon while performing knee surgery on a 42 year old Canadian. Reportedly this greenish black texture in the blood was due to his migraine medication. Man has been taking sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day. This resulted in sulfur gets incorporated into the oxygen carrying compound hemoglobin in Red blood cells.

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spinal muscular atrophy, sma, sumatriptan, methemoglobin, blue blood


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