Man Has Green Blood Like a Vulcan.

By Alex in Health on Jun 8, 2007 at 8:14 pm

Here’s life imitating Star Trek:

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.

The man emulated Star Trek’s Mr Spock – the Enterprise’s science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.

In this case, the unusual colour of the 42-year-old’s blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.

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  1. Sarek
    Jun 8th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    Does anyone know the name of the medication? I wanna sell it at SF conventions!

  2. meg
    Jun 8th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    It’s called sumatriptan. However, the condition that it caused to this guy, sulfhemoglobin, is so incredibly rare that they don’t even know exactly how it’s caused or what causes it or why it happens to certain people, so it wouldn’t turn the vast majority of peoples’ blood green.

  3. meg
    Jun 9th, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Besides, the name of the medication was in the article. :P


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