Man Rushed to Hospital After Turning Blue From Head to Toe After Sleeping on New Bedsheets

A man was left embarrassed after he was rushed to the hospital when his skin suddenly turned blue from head to toe.

The man, identified as Tommy Lynch, said the strange incident happened after he slept on newly purchased blue bedsheets without washing them first.

According to the 42-year-old, he had slept on the sheets for two nights before waking up to find his entire body had turned a pale blue color.

Concerned about his appearance, a friend who works as a carer quickly rushed him to the hospital, where he was immediately given a bed and placed on oxygen.

However, doctors soon discovered the unusual cause of the situation.

After rubbing his arm with an alcohol wipe, the swab turned blue, revealing that the color had transferred from the new bedsheets onto his skin.

Tommy later realized that the dye from the unwashed sheets was responsible for his shocking appearance.

Speaking about the incident, he 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.”

He also recalled how shocked the doctors were when they first saw him.

“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.”

The construction worker from Castle Gresley explained that the king-size bedsheets had been given to him by a friend named Del to help keep him warm in his barn home.

On the second night of sleeping in the sheets, he overslept and woke up in the afternoon looking completely blue.

“The day before, I’d shaken hands with someone and they looked a light blue then, but I thought I was just cold,” he said.

“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 go to the hospital.”

Tommy also revealed that even after leaving the hospital, it took several days to wash the dye off his skin.

“People were still looking at me weirdly as I had bath after bath, but it took a week. The water was blue.”

He added that the first thing he did after returning home was wash the bedsheets.

“I haven’t gone blue since. Always wash your sheets before you sleep in them. Unless you want to jump the queue at A&E.”