Man Rushed To Hospital After Skin Turns Blue Overnight, Turns Out It Was Just Bed Sheet Dye

A man who woke up to find his skin had turned blue had a full-blown panic attack and was rushed to A&E… only to then realise it was bed sheet dye.

Tommy Lynch, a 42-year-old construction worker from Derbyshire, was rushed to Queen’s Hospital in Burton after waking up “bright blue” and “extremely tired.”

Lynch had been gifted a new set of navy blue bedsheets and slept in them for two nights without washing them first.

On the day he woke up blue, he had slept for an impressive 14 hours, leaving his body to marinade in the blue dye and turn him a Smurf overnight.

Tommy pooped his pants and rang his friend, who works as a carer, who then made him panic even more by suggesting he could be oxygen-deprived.

The friend rushed him to hospital, where even hospital staff were concerned and immediately placed him on oxygen.

The mystery was solved when a doctor wiped his arm with an alcohol swab, which instantly turned blue. Tommy realised the “cyanosis” was actually just dye transfer from his new bedding. Whoops.

I can’t imagine how dumb/relieved he felt in that moment, and apparently the doctors and nurses all laughed at him too.

“Mortified” Tommy spent the next week taking multiple baths to fully remove the dye. Guy is lucky this happened in the UK and not in the US or some other country where it might have cost him a small fortune to be taken to A&E and be told that actually, he was covered in blue bed sheet dye and not dying from oxygen deprivation.

Although you’d think the fact he was walking and talking and conscious and not dead the whole time might have been a good indicator too.

Still – better safe than sorry eh? Onwards and upwards, Tommy!

For the 24-year-old man who turned up to a hospital in France with a WWII bomb stuck up his backside, click HERE.