Real Life Papa Smurf!

This story only came into my head recently about American, Paul Karason, who's skin turned blue after he ingested large amounts of colloidal silver, a new-age hippy product in a magazine that was supposed to help with his arthritis.

Karason sent away for a kit for making colloidal silver -- a home brew of microscopic silver particles suspended in water. For a while, he was drinking at least 10 ounces a day as a cure for arthritis. "I had arthritis in my shoulders so bad I couldn't pull a T-shirt off. And the next thing I knew, it was just gone." he explained the media, but these claims have no basis in science and after a couple of months, his whole skin turned blue. "I kind of hoped it would fade off!" But it didn't fade off. Argyria is permanent.