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May 26th, 2009 by Mike | Filed under FrickMeOut, Fun.
Blue man
A Californian nicknamed Papa Smurf has revealed how he accidentally turned his skin permanently blue.
Paul Karason, 57, from Madera, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and spilled the beans to host Matt Lauer.
He suffered from stress-related dermatitis after his father’s death 14 years ago, and decided to treat it himself with home-made colloidal silver, an old medicine widely used before the discovery of penicillin.
Of his Papa Smurf nickname, he said: “It’s everywhere I go… I’ve gotten kind of used to it. I’m rather inured to it.”
To confound his problems, Karason’s self-prescribed medicine did not even cure his dermatitis.
But, he said, he has “no more acid reflux, no more sinus troubles; my arthritis went away.”
Silver was still found in some over-the-counter medicines in the US until it was banned in 1999 because it causes argyria – the condition which turns the skin blue.
this man is not color of the man i saw in 1959-60 in my hometown he was more blue not purple…so be scammed by someone who is trying for some reason to be famous…..i was visiting in neighborhood of a friend as a child and went to the wrong door,,, as a kid didnt think much more of it,,, back then kids didnt ask all peoples business as they do now adays..it was about 25 back then..cedar springs michigan.