what you mean by blue baby syndrome?
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Blue baby syndrome, also known as infant methemoglobinemia, is a condition where a baby's skin turns blue. This occurs due to a decreased amount of hemoglobin in the baby's blood. Hemoglobin is a blood protein that is responsible for carrying oxygen around the body and delivering it to the different cells and tissues.
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Blue baby syndrome refers to a number of conditions that results in blueness of the skin of babies.
It is mainly caused due to consuming nitrates containing drinking water.These nitrites bind to form hemoglobin in body forming methemoglobin,which is unable to carry oxygen.
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