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On 2008, ABC reporters interviewed Paul Karason, 40 year-old who’s skin turned blue after he used colloidal silver to ease his ailments. It started a decade ago, when he saw an ad in a new-age magazine promising health and rejuvenation through colloidal silver.
Karason sent away for a kit for ly: Georgia,Arial,Verdana; text-decoration: underline;”> making colloidal silver — a home brew of microscopic silver particles suspended in water. For a while, he was drinking at least 10 ounces a day as a ly: Georgia, Arial, Verdana; text-decoration: underline;”> cure for arthritis.
“I had arthritis in my shoulders so bad I couldn’t pull a T-shirt off. And the next thing I knew, it was just gone.” he explained the media, but these claims have no basis in science and after a couple of months, his whole skin turned blue. “I kind of hoped it would fade off!” But it didn’t fade off. Argyria is permanent.
Human Pappiloma Virus: meet the Tree Man
Over time, Dede was sacked from his job, deserted by his wife and shunned by neighbours as the horn-like extensions covered much of his body and stopped him working. He has two children. After his case received widespread publicity, donations from the public and government help allowed him to get treatment, and in 2008, six kilos of warts were surgically removed from his body.
Hypertrichosis: the Human Werewolf Syndrome

Congenital Hypertrichosis is very rare. In fact, it is so rare that there have been only 50 verified cases since the Middle Ages. On 2008, the press interviewed Pruthviraj Patil, an 11-year-old indian boy who’s face and body are covered with hair. He rarely leaves his home village in India because of the cruelty of strangers.
Pruthviraj’s family has tried homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies even laser surgery without success, and he’s now appealing to doctors to help him find a permanent cure since even after laser treatment the hair grows back.
Blaschko’s lines: strange stripes all over the body

Many inherited and acquired diseases of
the skin or mucosa manifest themselves according to these patterns, creating the visual appearance of stripes. The cause of the stripes is thought to result from mosaicism; they do not correspond to nervous, muscular, or lymphatic systems. What makes them more remarkable is that they correspond quite closely from patient to patient, usually forming a “V” shape over the spine and “S” shapes over the chest, stomach, and sides.Vitiligo: white patched skin

The precise cause of vitiligo is complex and not fully understood. There is some evidence suggesting it is caused by a combination of auto-immune, genetic, and environmental factors. The population incidence worldwide is considered to be between 1% and 2%.
Tungiasis: fleas burrow into the skin and lay eggs


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