Man hospitalized after turning blue from head-to-toe because of bizarre bedroom discovery

A man was left mortified after being rushed to hospital having turned blue from head-to-toe — only to discover it was dye from his bedsheets.Tommy Lynch, 42, had bought navy blue bedsheets and slept in them for two nights when he woke up looking like “an Avatar”.He felt “extremely tired” and a friend, who works as a carer, took one look at him before rushing him to the nearest hospital.Lynch was taken straight to see a doctor and was given a bed within minutes while concerned staff put him on oxygen.When the doctor rubbed his arm with an alcohol wipe, the swab turned blue – and Tommy realized the culprit was his unwashed, new sheets.Lynch said he gave the doctors a good laugh but left “more red than blue” in the end.The construction worker, from Castle Gresley, Derbyshire, said: “I never knew you had to wash your sheets before you slept on them.“Everyone in the reception of A&E was staring at me like they’d seen a ghost.“I had to walk up to the desk and I didn’t even know what to say: ‘Hi, I’ve woken up blue’.“The doctors said they’d never seen someone that colour before and still been alive.I looked like an Avatar.“As soon as they wiped my arm and it came off blue, it clicked.“I was mortified but they said I’d given them a good laugh.

They don’t usually have funny stories in A&E.”Lynch had been gifted the $53.84 USD king-size bedsheets from his friend, Del, to keep him warm in his barn home.However he hadn’t realized he should wash them first to stop the color dye from transferring to the skin.On the second night of sleeping in them, Lynch overslept and woke up in the afternoon “bright blue”.He said: “The day before, I’d shook hands with someone and they looked a light blue then but I thought I was just cold.“The next night I must have overheated but I was lovely and cosy.“My friend, Del, woke me up by knocking on the door as I’d slept for 14 hours and he took one look at me and said I needed to...