Man's Blue Skin Scare: Sheet Dye Mishap

0:00On March 13th, a 42-year-old man from Derbyshire scared his friend and hospital staff when he woke up with bright blue skin. It turned out the color came from die on his brand new Navy bedsheets, a gift meant to keep him warm in his barn home. His friend spotted the unusual hue right away and rushed him to Queen's Hospital in Burton last November. Emergency teams jumped into action, hooking him up to oxygen and preparing to draw blood, worried about a serious health issue. Everyone in the waiting area stared as he arrived looking so strange, but when a nurse swapped his arm for the blood test, the white turned blue too, and they quickly realized it was just the sheets rubbing off during the night. Doctors gave him the all clear after that mix-up and he headed home, relieved. It took several baths over a full week to finally scrub away the die, with the bathwater turning blue each time. He washed those 40-pound sheets right away and hasn't turned blue since. Now he advises everyone to always pre-wash new bedding to skip any unexpected trips to the emergency room.