The Blue People of Kentucky | A real case and its cause

The color blue is the favorite of many people.The sky, the sea and some plants offer it to us naturally and, nevertheless, it is one of the most scarce in the animal world.In Lifestyle we have seen some amazing animals blue and we have investigated why there are so few blue foods and this time we wanted to know if there have been blue people.Join us to know a real case and its cause: The Kentucky Blue People.

When talking about Blue People , maybe the epithet that was assigned to kings and nobles and that claimed they had blue blood came to your mind and you You asked why, according to historians, white skin was a hallmark of nobility in medieval Europe and certified that there had been no mixing with Jews, Arabs and people of the plain people who worked in the fields from sun to sun To demonstrate their nobility they taught the inside of the wrists where the blue veins are visible under the white skin.There comes the idea that the nobles have blue blood.

The Kentucky Blue People: a real case you should know

When we talk about blue people, the imagination quickly leads us to the cinema and we think of extraterrestrial beings or superpowers, but the case that concerns us is abundantly documented, has been medically studied and is absolutely real .For several generations members of the same family living in Kentucky, United States, had blue skin.After some research it was found that the cause was in a genetic alteration due to a recessive gene.

1.Ancestry of the Kentucky Blue People

We must go back to the first decades of the 19th century to learn about the first case of blue people in Kentucky .At the beginning of the 19th century, a young man of French origin named Martin Fugate settled near Hazard, Kentucky, and married a young woman named Elizabeth Smith, who belonged to a clan that lived in that same territory. The marriage of Martin and Elizabeth had several children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with blue skin.

2.Offspring of the Kentucky Blue People

Of the seven children of Martin and Elizabeth Fugate, four had blue skin .As the place where the family lived was very isolated, inbreeding made the condition of Blue People spread through the area and that the attention of several members of the health sector who had news of these blue people from Kentucky.

3.The cause of the color of the blue people of Kentucky

The Blue People of Kentucky | A real case and its cause

Dr.Cawein

In the decade of the 60s of the 20th century, the nurse Ruth Pendergast and the hematologist Madison Cawein decided to locate the People Kentucky Blue and discover what the medical motive was after the curious color of his epidermis .It was not easy to locate them since family members who were blue people remained hidden in the wooded area since the color of their skin embarrassed them.One day, coincidentally, a pair of blue brothers appeared in his office.Patrick and Rachel Ritchie, of the Fugate clan, were blue people and the nurse and the hematologist took blood samples.through them they also reached other relatives.

Cawein's analyzes showed that the blood of the blue people lacked an enzyme. This one, which is usually in the red blood cells is necessary for blue methemoglobin to become red hemoglobin.The bodies of the Fugate are known as "hereditary methemoglobinemia" and it means that their red blood cells are poor in oxygen and hence their skin is bluish.

Interestingly, l The two spouses of the first Fugate couple were carriers of the recessive methemoglobinemia (met-H) gene..The condition of having blue skin is only possible when two defective genes are inherited, one of each of the parents The inbreeding of the Fugate family caused this to be extended genetic particularity to several generations.

The Blue People of Kentucky | A real case and its cause

As a result of Dr.Cawein's investigation, the treatment of the problem was simple.I administer" methylene blue "and a few minutes after the treatment, the skin of the People Kentucky blue turned pink, but it is necessary to take it every day since it is eliminated in the urine.

For 150 years, the blue people of Kentucky were an unsolved mystery. Thanks to the investigations of Pendergast and Madison, the case had a solution.Since 1975, when the last member of the saga with blue skin, Benjy Stacy, was born, there has been no new case In part, this fact is because the ease in communications has taken people living in that area of the state of Kentucky out of their isolation and inbreeding.The family began to disperse and the prevalence of the recessive gene was lost.In case of new blue people, doctors already know how they have to act because they know the cause that produces it. Do you know the case of the Kentucky Blue People? Do you know of other people who have had bluish skin ? Share it with us! If you want to know other curious cases of people of curious colors, be sure to read the post: Green children: a story to know.

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