After going overboard with a ‘home treatment’, a man accidentally dyed his skin a permanent blue hue.
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- Who is the man who accidentally turned blue?
- What happened after?
Who is the man who accidentally turned blue?
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Paul Karason, of Bellingham, Washington, made headlines around the world when he appeared on the Today is the show in 2008 and claimed that he had managed to change his skin a strange color.
Karason revealed on the show that to treat many minor medical conditions he was experiencing, such as acid reflux and eczema, he began swallowing colloid silver chloride while simultaneously massaging his face with a colloidal silver solution.
He claimed the therapy worked, but had the terrible side effect of permanently leaving his skin a bluish-silver color. When asked when he realized something was wrong, he said it was actually a friend of his who noticed it first. “A friend he hadn’t seen in a long time came and asked me what he had done to me,” he revealed.
When asked if he would return to his old appearance if he could, Karason replied that he was “not sure.” He rose to fame after appearing on the Today Show, but was not thrilled with the nickname he was given: Papa Smurf. “That was a nickname he didn’t appreciate, depending on who said it,” his wife recalled in an interview.
What happened after?
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“If it was a kid running up to him and saying ‘Papa Smurf,’ he’d smile. But if it was an adult, well…” Unfortunately, a year after the show, Karason claimed that his personal life was spiraling.
“I’m in a situation where it’s very difficult for me to make it myself, my resources are limited and it’s very expensive,” he explained. Karason had heart problems and prostate cancer just a few years later.
His bad luck didn’t end there; In 2012, he lost his home and was forced to live in a homeless shelter in Bellingham. Karason died in 2013 at the age of 62, after a heart attack that caused pneumonia and a serious stroke.
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He continued to use colloidal silver until the day he died. As long as standards and testing are followed, colloidal silver can be sold as a cosmetic product in the UK. However, the drug is not allowed to be sold as a food supplement or medicine.
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