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Patient Bleeds Dark Green Blood, is Not Vulcan

June 11, 2007 by Liz Lewis  
Filed under Medicine, Surgery

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According to medical journal The Lancet, some doctors got quite a shock while they were operating; a patient started bleeding dark green blood. A little investigation turned out the fact that he was taking 200mg of sumatriptan (migraine medication) per day. This caused sulfhaemoglobinaemia, a condition in which sulfur becomes incorporated into the hemoglobin in your blood cells.

He made a full recovery after the surgery. He has since stopped taking the medication, after which, the condition disappeared in about 5 weeks.

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