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When a patient have chronic bronchitis why does his skin turn blue?
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∙ 13y ago
Chronic bronchitis is one of the main forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the other is emphysema; although typically patients with COPD have both conditions.
The reason the skin appears either blue or gray is because with these patients there isn't isn't enough oxygen in the blood stream. A person with chronic bronchitis, the bronchial tubes in the lungs are inflamed so when blood is pumped into the lungs to get oxygenated it isn't very effective because the surface area is diminished; resulting in lower levels of oxygenated blood in the blood stream.
This in turn affects the levels of oxygenated blood flowing to the rest of the body affecting the color and changing it to blue.
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