Why would a kid turn green? and, colloidal silver!

In My Humble Opinion
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So at my book club this evening, someone mentioned that her child’s classmate was looking distinctly greenish the other day. It clearly wasn’t makeup, and the teacher said that it seemed to be the kid’s usual condition to have a green tint to her skin. Now, I’ve heard of chlorosis affecting girls 100+ years ago if they weren’t ever allowed to go into the sun at all (and sorry, all the chlorosis links I can find are about plants), but this child couldn’t have that, I don’t think. So, medically-minded Dopers, what would possibly cause a child to turn green? Should anyone be worried?

And as long as we’re on the subject of weird skin colors, I need the best information available on argyria and the non-benefits of colloidal silver. I already have info from the FDA, quackwatch, and Rosemary Jacobs. Is there anything else I should have, especially on the “antibiotic effects” of silver?

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Oooo I remember an article a while back in Fortean times (www.forteantimes.com link to the magazine, not the article, although the article may be online somewhere, but I doubt it) about green girls. There was no conclusive theory on whether there was any illness that made you go green. The most common reason was new sheets and towels!

Silver can make your go grey, permenantly, if you’re not carefull, but not green. The green staining you get from cheap silver jewellery is from other stuff added to the silver.

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My sister-in-law admitted that with her first child for a little bit when he was an infant, she turned him green. It seemed that he really liked some green veggies and she exculsivally feed him the green stuff.

The doc told her to feed him some different colored food and it went away.

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I heard of a supermodel who turned orange from eating only carrots for a long time. Could eating green vegetables in excess have the same effect?

I had a green son from too much food coloring in his Incredible Hulk halloween costume.

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What color was the kid supposed to be before?
It sounds flippant, but some diseases turn you yellowish, like liver failure, and dialysis turns dark skinned people sort of green.
Is the kid sick maybe?

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Wasn’t there that libertarian politician a while back whose skin turned permanantly blue from colloidal silver?

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I saw a picture of that guy…he wasn’t cobalt-blue or anything, but he did look kinda blue-purple. Like he’d been dead for awhile.

I’ve never seen a green person, though.

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Yep, my searching on colloidal silver turned up a picture of the politician guy. He looks bluer than Rosemary Jacobs.

The green girl and the grey people have nothing to do with one another except that they both came up in the same conversation. (A friend mentioned that she knows a family who uses the silver instead of medical insurance :eek: and that distributes it to others.)

My friend didn’t mention what race the green girl is, myrnajean, but she’s probably white. Our town mostly is, esp. the end she lives at. Could it really be green veggies? It’s hard to believe that a grade-school age kid could eat enough green veggies to actually turn green; easier to do with a baby.

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Found 'im. Big Blue himself. Mr. Sinatra nickname. The guy who, undoubtedly, has people asking if they can lick his…well, you get the idea.

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I’ve never seen a green white person. I’ve seen black people on dialysis turn kinda greenish. Its a tint more than anything.
Orange is another thing though. You can actually turn yourself orange by eating too much carroteen, the thing in carrots. Not that I’ve actually tried.
If the kid got it from her sheets, maybe she just needs a good scrubbbing…
If it was from green vegetables, wouldn’t all vegetarians be green?