History and treatment of blue babies

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    TREATMENT FOR METHEMOGLOBINAEMIA

    Mild cases of methemoglobinemia may not require treatment. The main treatment for severe cases of acquired methemoglobinemia is the drug methylene blue, which can provide oxygen to the blood.
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    HISTORY OF BLUE BABIES

  • 1st CASE OF METHAEMOGLOBINAEMIA

    In 1987, the Journal of the American Medical Association reprinted, as part of its Landmark series, a case study originally published in 1945, accompanied by a commentary and a report of a new and fatal instance. The author of the original paper, Hunter Comly, was a pediatric