Man With Blue Skin - Paul Karasson, seen in pictures and video below, had his skin turn blue after using a colloidal silver solution as a treatment for a skin disease which in turn caused neighbors to shun the blue-skinned man.
The man with blue skin due to a skin reaction known as argyria recently moved from Oregon to California because of the way people treated him.
Paul Karason hasn’t always had blue skin. You can see in the picture below of Paul with his parents that he was fair-skinned and quite pale.
The blue skin man stands out in contrast to his girlfriend’s pale skin color and had to endure taunts of “Papa Smurf” and “Blue Man” in his old neighborhood.Â
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Argyria is a rare condition where elemental silver is absorbed by the body and with repeated exposure, turns the skin blue or blue-grey. In localized cases such as handling silver-based creams, the discoloration can be reversed by laser treatment.
In Paul Karason’s case, it resulted from 14 years of drinking a colloidal silver solution which was an ancient remedy where silver was used in a way similar to today’s antibiotics to treat different diseases.
And that’s the strange story of Paul Karason, the man with blue skin.
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December 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Maybe if he drinks his piss for fourteen years he will turn green.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am
Is your piss green? Most people’s is not.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:14 am
amazing…
thanks for sharing photos and videos…
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 am
yellow and blue make green, silly
December 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
i hope were you live at now people are more nice to you. Ignore the people with the jokes.
December 26th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Atleast you didn’t turn black.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Wendy, it wouldn’t be that his piss is green. But when you mix the colors blue and yellow what color do you get?? my pre-school teacher has my back on that one!! But in serious notes i feel for the man, and hope all is well!!